2025
The Messenger
Complete Issue
Artwork
Cover Art - Suspicous Baby
Georgia Leakey
A Man and His Cricket
Georgia Leakey
gooseneckedcarnivore
Bella Stevens
Bird Trail
Miah Walker
Phantom Crossing
Miah Walker
Time’s Toothache
Julian Moore
Face the Sun
Julian Moore
Møns-Klint
Adele Kelley
Memento Mori
Julian Moore
Self Portrait
Georgia Leakey
Searching for Freedom
Julian Moore
Awards
Fiction
A Fowl Fate
Jessy Taylor
The Human Cannonball
Reece Steidle
Poetry
A Boy Named Congress
Ann Sabin
after Naked Lunch
Bella Stevens
In German, snake is a line you wait in
Reece Steidle
gingivitis
Bella Stevens
after spicer’s after lorca
Olivia Couch
The morning before a Santa Cruz gallery opening
Olivia Couch
Abstraction #04
Olivia Couch
some kind of colonialism
Susannah Carter
Primordial soup
Maddox Lowe
the bird in me
Susannah Carter
I’ve never met a River
Marcella Pizzato
Shoe Shopping
Ann Sabin
Reflections
Reece Steidle
Real Prayers Do Not Require Words
Ann Sabin
Prose
Mightier than the (s)word
Jessy Taylor
Definitions (for Robert Landsburg)
Jessy Taylor
Tympanostomy
Callia Nickels
The Language of Exclusion
Erlinda Sali
Showered With Depression
Callia Nickels
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editors
Helen Mei and Julia Abcug

The Messenger
Spring 2025
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