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Love by Abandonment
Volume 27 (2024-2025)
Editors
Meghan Maloney-Vinz (Executive), Jenn Sisko (Managing), Kathryn Savage (Contributing, Creative Nonfiction), Joan Naviyuk Kane (Contributing, Poetry), Juan Carlos Reyes (Contributing, Fiction)
Associate Editors
Rachel Guvenc
Deidra Purvis
Assistant Editors
Elizabeth Carls
Kayla Knoll
M.L. Schultz
With gratitude to the students of the Editorial Board
CONTENTS:
FICTION
The Bright World APRIL DARCY
Nojento STEPHANIE EARLY GREEN
Ninina CRISTINA HERRERA MEZGRAVIS
American Standards MARC NIESON
Terrarium JONATHAN WITTMAIER
POETRY
Beatitude for an Inventory of Roadkill ALBERT ABONADO
Romance ALBERT ABONADO
Already all the ghosts ANNE PIPER
Half-Life of Krill J C TALAMANTEZ
Red Oak, Black Oak AMY PENCE
day of the dead TODNE THOMAS
On a Farm in Iowa CHRISTOPHER GAUMER
Algae SASHA (OLEKSANDRA) LAVRENCHUK
Babylon SASHA (OLEKSANDRA) LAVRENCHUK
Caravan of Wounds DAVI GRAY
Mangled The Ancestor SANTEE FRAZIER
Mangled Disembodied SANTEE FRAZIER
Cracking the Lid JUDY KABER
Ark/ee/awl/uh/gee SAM STOKLEY
Chimera 1 ROB ARNOLD
Chimera 2 ROB ARNOLD
An Untitled Hunt ALICE PAIGE
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark MICHAEL CHANG
Most of Last Year and the Years Before It SADIE DUPUIS
Thank You SHEILA McMULLIN
Smart Girls Always Have a Plan CARLA PANCIERA
Night 410 (from Plague Nights) G C WALDREP
Night 550 (from Plague Nights) G C WALDREP
Andrew Wyeth’s Footnotes to Goodbye, my Love, 2008 JANÉE J. BAUGHER
Cabin MICKIE KENNEDY
February at the Johnsons’ JANA-LEE GERMAINE
Wax Self-Portrait / JENNIFER MILITELLO
Wax Portrait of a Marriage / JENNIFER MILITELLO
Movie Star ABIE IRABOR
State of Emergence STEFANIA HEIM
April is STEFANIA HEIM
Patriarch CHERYL CLARK VERMEULEN
Pandemic Dreams LISA HIGGS
About Nothing LISA HIGGS
Sometimes I Walk Barefoot Through Freshly Tilled Soil JOSH NICOLAISEN
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
In Black and White MARGARET WHITFORD
Sometimes I Laugh During Genocide SANA WAZWAZ
Corn-Yellow Light VICTORIA BLANCO
How to Eat an Elephant SAMANTHA M. SORENSON
Real Girls ELEANOR GARRAN
Water Striders BILL MARSH
Just the Song JENNIFER BOWEN
INTERVIEW
An Interview with Victoria Blanco ELIZABETH CARLS
BOOK REVIEWS
Self-Interrogation by Proxy ROBYN EARHART
The Rolling Wheel of Language HALEE KIRKWOOD