Wreckage of Once Was
Volume 26 (2023-2024)

Water~Stone Review, v.20

ISSN 1520-4583
ISBN 978-1-934458-13-6


Design/Photography Curation by
Parker Sprout and Logan Myers

Cover photograph Las Vegas, 2015, by Aaron Wojack

Copyedited and proofread by Anne Kelley Conklin

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Wreckage of Once Was
Volume 26 (2023-2024)

Editors
Meghan Maloney-Vinz (Executive), Jenn Sisko (Managing), Juliet Patterson (Contributing, Creative Nonfiction), January Gill O’Neil (Contributing, Poetry), Libby Flores (Contributing, Fiction)

Associate Editors
Zoey Gulden
Mubanga Kalimamukwento
Larissa Larson

Assistant Editors
Rachel Guvenc
Deidra Purvis
M.L. Schultz

With gratitude to the students of the Editorial Board

Read a letter from the Executive Editor

CONTENTS:

FICTION


The Sergeant’s Daughter  ERNIE REYNOLDS
Pennies Only  KATIE YEE
The Math  DANIELLE LAZARIN
Tell Us Your Qualifications  MEGHAN GILLISS
A Hypothetical Scenario in Which Every Man I’ve Ever Masturbated to Is at a Cocktail Hour Hosted by My Mother at a Bar That Transcends Space & Time  VIVIAN HOLLAND
Love  A. K. HERMAN
Lies on the Lips  DANIELLE DECATUR
A Breath Held Too Long  MANUEL GONZALES

 

POETRY


Daybreak Comes and I Offer Light 
REBECCA JOHNSON
Divination 
ELISE PASCHEN
Cosmic Mother Cento 
SU HWANG
Deposition: What Was Lost 
TODD DAVIS
Glassful of Prayer 
ANTHONY CEBALLOS
Retching 
A. E. WYNTER
Now & Later 
A. E. WYNTER
Learning to Live with A Clockwork Orange 
JC TALAMANTEZ
River Phoenix at 46 
TERI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS
The Brain Confesses about Those Six Weeks 
TERI ELLEN CROSS DAVIS
run dheer 
ISRA HASSAN
The Hunter 
JENNIFER MARTELLI
Reading Alone in a Square Room 
JENIFER BROWNE LAWRENCE
wearing a dress for the first time
  luna rey hall
Collapse 
KATHLEEN DRISKELL
Ode to That Turquois Bra 
DeMISTY D. BELLINGER
Mirror 
MARIE-ELIZABETH MALI
Weeding/Wedding 
JOSEPH O. LEGASPI
Song of Solomon 
J. D. DEBRIS
Perfection™
C ATHERINE PIERCE
I Wonder if the Guy Who Catcalled Me in the Blockbuster Parking Lot When I Was 15 Ever Thinks About That 
CATHERINE PIERCE
On the Third Stanza of a Poem by F. S. Key
  DAN ALBERGOTTI
Standard of the Wild Hunt 
HANS BECKER
Blue Aster Seeds 
ROBERT GRUNST
Abecedarian: a lost love poem 
JP HOWARD
Praise Poem for the Quiet 
JP HOWARD

 

CREATIVE NON-FICTION


Reading the Deck with Zora Neale Hurston  TERESA CARMODY
Only Matter 
RYAN HABERMEYER
Abscission 
MICHAEL LEVY
An Island Still Dry 
CHRIS SANTIAGO
Not So Soft 
JAX CONNELLY
The Excavator 
SHANE SEELY
Flip and Flop 
MATTHEW HARKINS
Canoe 
KATHRYN GANFIELD

 

INTERVIEW


With Ru Freeman MUBANGA KALIMAMUKWENTO and SHEILA O’CONNOR

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Circuits: Poetry Future, Poetry Now  STAN SANVEL RUBIN
Writing Through Erasure: The Mother in the Memoir  ROBYN EARHART

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