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Best of Issue #17

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Best of Issue #17 ·

Best of the Best. Crème de la crème. Really good art.

A Reason to Burn

by Hannah Montgomery Vanhart

“A Reason to Burn,” crafts a haunting and heartrending reimagining of the vampire myth. Through the intertwined threads of past and present, she explores the complex layers of trauma, loss, and connection.

Vanhart expertly balances literary and genre elements, blending supernatural horror with raw, real-world conflicts. The story’s pacing is masterful, gradually revealing how trauma transforms us and, often indirectly hurts those we love. This piece is a powerful metaphor for the ways pain shapes us—and how, sometimes, our wounds are passed down in the quietest, most insidious ways.  

TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter, FICTION EDITOR

On the Constancy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

by AZ Foreman

Quit mything. The sun cannot see anything. Stop idly maundering about where "our America" has gone. Here it lies in the grave with Doctor King” is a back and forth reflection of how inescapable violence feels in America because of intention. Foremen warns the reader with sharp imagery about how diluting, idolizing and mythologizing people like King can build space for complacency. The urgency in this poem is visceral and skillfully written, I certainly look forward to reading more from AZ Foreman.

Oli Villescas, POETRY EDITOR

by Amanda Bristow

One day I hope to be the subject of Amanda Bristow’s “The View From Potrero Hill”— galavanting across the city, naked, unabashed, hair in the wind. Even as an editor, sometimes my words fail me in the face of good art. Yes. Amanda’s Bristow’s work is a yes.  

London Pinkney, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The View from Potrero Hill

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