Ghost(s) Still Living
Volume 24 (2021-2022)

Editors
Meghan Maloney-Vinz (Executive Editor), Robyn Earhart (Managing Editor), Sheila O’Connor (Fiction Editor), Carolyn Holbrook (Contributing Editor CNF), Sean Hill (Contributing Editor Poetry)

Associate Editors
Elizabeth Caswell, Amanda Happy, Mark Teats

Assistant Editors
Trisha Daigle, Zoey Gulden, Victoria McCurdy

With gratitude to the students of the Editorial Board.

Read a Letter from the Executive Editor

CONTENTS:

FICTION

Home Burial  GEN DEL RAYE
Date of Death  T. N. EYER
IktÓmi Spins a Web  MONA SUSAN POWER
How to Be Careful Enough  JENNIFER BLACKMAN
How to Pill a Cat  S. A. WOLTER
People Here  DAVID ALOI
purity purity, eeh  NATHANIEL EDDY
Srinagar  KRUTI BRAHMBHATT
Stone Skipping  MMAKGOSI ANITA TAU
We’re Not Weird About It  KASEY PAYETTE

POETRY

But Feathers of Discontent, Kingfishers
     From The Maybe-Bird  JENNIFER ELISE FOERSTER
Ravens in the Scorched Black Sycamore
     From The Maybe-Bird  JENNIFER ELISE FOERSTER
What Wounds Become  HEATHER A. WARREN
Clipped  HEATHER A. WARREN
The Rough Beast Talks to the Falcon  ALEXANDRA TEAGUE
Horsepower  W. TODD KANEKO
First Person Shooter  W. TODD KANEKO
[…]  CHRISTINA OLSON
Gut  CHRISTINA OLSON
self-portrait as god  MARIA ZOCCOLA
The Persistence of Memory  DARRYL HOLMES
Lucas  KRISTIN LAUREL
Ode to Singlehood  WINNIEBELL XINYU ZONG
Pandemic Playtime #2  KEETJE KUIPERS
Kraken  LEONA SEVICK
The Women Locked Up at Framingham Make American Flags  JILL McDONOUGH
On the Autumn Equinox, 2019  JEANNINE HALL GAILEY
September Dahlias
     After Breonna Taylor  CHERENE SHERRARD
True North  CHERENE SHERRARD
Diaspora Sonnet 14  OLIVER DE LA PAZ
Diaspora Sonnet 15  OLIVER DE LA PAZ
The Restoration  PRAGEETA SHARMA
Of Pith and Marrow  KIMBERLY BLAESER
Onaabani-giizis  KIMBERLY BLAESER
Din  JOAN NAVIYUK KANE
First  JOAN NAVIYUK KANE
Why Family Is a Fraught Term  L. RENÉE
Lessons  MELISSA CROWE
The Shift  LeROY NORMAN SORENSON
Cold Sweet Tea on a Slow Afternoon at the Waffle House  RAMSEY MATHEWS
Walking on Water  ALISON PELEGRIN
Saving a Fly  JAY UDALL
Letter to David James  MATTHEW OLZMANN
Conversion  MATTHEW OLZMANN
Rebel Rebel  JANUARY GILL O’NEIL

CREATIVE NON-FICTION

The Buckskin Dress  ZIBIQUAH DENNY
Finding the Springs  CATHERINE JAGOE
Desaparecidos  ERICA WALLACE MOORE
Life and Death in the North Star State ARLETA LITTLE
The Complexion of Love  PAMELA R. FLETCHER BUSH
Whatever Discomfort, Find Beauty  E. A. FARRO
Lethologica  JAMES CIHLAR
The Red Mole  KATHRYN HAMILTON WARREN
What Will Not Change  ANNE OWEN SHEA

INTERVIEW

with Carolyn Holbrook  SHEILA O’CONNOR & VEENA DEO

BOOK REVIEWS

Necropoetics  STAN SANVEL RUBIN
Revised Consent  BARRIE JEAN BORICH