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“You look like the classic vision of a crescent moon. / Like a glazed croissant. A child’s vision / of imperfection, or an adult’s of perfection” —Ode to My Father Photographing the Moon Each Night 🌜

“A room full of people who knew / that Pikachu would be resurrected like / my father knows he will live again like / I am certain that our loves matter” —Ode to My Father Watching Pokémon 2000 💛

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🌜—Ode to My Father Photographing the Moon Each Night

💛—Ode to My Father Watching Pokémon 2000

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“The Huldra, the text read, is a forest spirit and seductress. She is beautiful, but under her long dress she hides a tail, usually that of a cow, but sometimes a fox. The Huldra can also have a hollow back like a rotted-out tree” — @kerimiller.bsky.social ‘s short story “Norwegian Wedding Dance” 💃🏻

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“The wolf holds a ball of yarn in its mouth.] This is not a metaphor. This is not a fetch” —The Wolf 🐺

“They arrived in town with one million leaves eating at their skin. They asked abstract riddles, impossible puzzles” —караконджул 👹

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Check out Autumn Rozario Hall’s collection in our third issue!

“As a child, I imagined the yakshini—beautiful and terrible, with backward-facing feet and an insatiable hunger for mischief—perched among the highest branches, watching us with eyes that glowed in the dark” — @hafsarizvi.bsky.social ‘s CNF “The Mango Tree Whispers.”

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“4.) Avoid perfect circles of natural objects. Oh, you’re pretty sure you already wandered through a circle of goose feathers?” — KM Baysal’s flash “Tips for Meandering in the (Fairy) Woods While Nursing a Broken Heart” 🧚‍♀️

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“The previous owner had been exuberant in their plantings, and the bottom edge of our property is filled with young birches. I was worried they would grow up and block our view, and suggested cutting them down, but my husband had protested” —from Hillary McDonald‘s short story “The Leaf” 🍃

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“I am an aging dragon, fire-spent, crack-tooth’d, ashy-throated, / with tattered wings and crippled claws;”— from A. Waller Hastings‘ poem “My Life as a Chinese Restaurant Placemat1” 🐉

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Check out Sophie Jonas-Hill’s art in issue 3!

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“Dead, slimy fish decorated this leviathan and knowing that to this raised place the dead come along to call it home, I shivered from a chill not caused by the cold sea breeze” — Joseph Eli Occeño’s flash, “That Thing in the Sea” 🦑