SUMMER
2025 | Volume Three
POETRY
Genre cover by Bethany Altschwager
Genre cover by Bethany Altschwager
The Wet Ghost of Junipero Serra
Travis Stephens
“It is pouring across town. / Going to get here too.”
Allison Noonan
everyday nostalgia
“where everything still feels possible, / hot breath tastes like wanting more / and getting it.”
“I want you to feel the heat in my skeleton— / cleave my body and hold my light.”
After the Colors Returned to the World
Sambhavi Dwivedi
“what else is there to say / except the water came & it took & it took”
acts of god and other lies
Sreeja Naskar
Who Will Pray For Me Now?
“I gasp at an abrupt blossom / of loss unspooling without / grace in my passenger seat.”
Caitlin Annette Johnson
PROSE
Genre cover by Tereza Kleovoulou
Genre cover by Tereza Kleovoulou
“He has said that if it were not for me he would never stop here, even to pump gas. When he told me this, only a week ago, I had lied to him. I had told him that I hated it here, too.”
R.K.B | Fiction
Church
Two Fingers
“We could peer down through the register and see that hand clasping cigarette and drink, pointing, raising and lowering with the passion of the moment.”
Pam Clements | Nonfiction
Warped World
Issue cover by Alan Haider
Why is this piece your Trace Fossil?
“Warped World is my trace fossil because it was over 20 years in the making and represents more about me than any other object but myself. When I initially started it I was under 20 years old. The person I was, was not prepared to finish it, but left an impression upon the canvas. Over the years it lay forgotten until the 40 year old more refined me made a collaboration with the young me, finishing the piece and leaving even more biographical information behind, because when I am dead it will have to be interpreted without me.”
Alan Haider is an American poet and visual artist. His work has appeared in print publications including The Main Street Rag, Sierra Nevada Review, and Dunes Review.