FALL
2026 | Volume Four
Summer Elegy
Ivi Hua
“The plums, / golden and near-bursting,
were nestled into the trunk.”
“some days, / shoe soles melting, /
we dance.”
In the Aftermath
Celeste Oster
Seventeen
Eli Karren
“No backroads like the backroads /
I knew at seventeen.”
“And now echoing in the spacious cavities of me, seeking ways to escape from my aching lungs: there is a new truth of me.”
Tombs Under the Sun
Emily Learman | Nonfiction
“I can’t tell you what that night looked like, but I can tell you what it sounded like. The bullets in my uncle’s pocket jingled like Christmas bells.”
Monkey Brains
Kiera Inciong | Nonfiction
“The summer before my life could start was the sort of hot that smeared everybody stupid. The already stupid into prophets.”
Pack Plywood
Aaron Joseph Young | Fiction
solace
Issue cover by Molly Klinger
Why is this piece your Trace Fossil?
“A foundation of self is always there to be rediscovered in connection with the people around you. Any fluctuation in self-perception can be stabilized by returning to it.”
Molly Klingler is a multidisciplinary artist from Moscow, Idaho. She got her BFA from the University of Idaho with emphasis in painting, printmaking, and ceramics. A large part of her painting practice involves the search for mundane moments, which together make up everything, though they can be small enough to go unnoticed.”