CURRENT ISSUE
by Ephiny Gale
The reason Trent from Pionnarm contacts me: in a survey of 300 people, several respondents said I was the loveliest person they knew.
Pionnarm wants to copy my personality. It wants to sell it as one of the software options for their new android model: Lovely Lila. Customers can also choose from Sultry Samantha, Playful Peyton, Whimsical Willow, or Cool Cherry, which makes me think of a car paint colour more than a woman’s name.
Copying my personality would only take a few hours, Trent says, and wouldn’t hurt at all. They’d offer generous compensation.
FICTION
Lovely Lilas
by Ephiny Gale
My Moon in Red
by L. Michelle Tago-Tu’itupou
Joe Fledge's Jump
by Patrice Sarath
POETRY
ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS
The ‘Shiny’ Animals
of Nature
by Nick D’Onofrio
FROM THE EDITOR
Letter from the Editor
by Tristan Evarts
Other fiction in this issue:
Rope Ladder to the Moon by Andrew Darlington
The Fifth Stage by Erin Smith
They Shall Feed the Earth by J.B. Polk
Other poetry in this issue:
The Garden Trellis (A Cascade) by Dawn Vogel
Highway by Garrett Carroll
Nebulous Sunflowers by Garrett Carroll
Holography by Louis Girón
Finding a Planet Within the Rocks by M.C. Childs
Giants by Lynn White
Calling on Neighbors by M.C. Childs
Prodigal—A Villanelle by R.K. Rugg
The Bird that Flies Backwards by Andrew Darlington
Scaling by Louis Gallo
Science Learning Through Arts by Sukarma Rani Thareja
Other non-fiction in this issue:
Learning Ecologies by Randall Hayes