Issue 173

• Welcome to this Issue Pamela Mulloy

On Writing

• In Life and Writing Alena Papayanis

Writer-At-Large

• From the Outside Looking In Cecilia Vizcaíno
• Chai – A Homecoming Sanjana Srikant
• Optimal Anxiety: The Search for Belonging in an Uncertain World Lara El Mekaui

Spirit Ink

• If Not a Heartbeat Chyana Marie Sage
• Southwesterly Winds Helen Knott
• The Edges Yagaba'a
• After June Cree Nomad

Fiction

• Penance MJ Malleck
• Two Bodies in Flight Nayani Jensen
• The Sailboat James Southworth
• The Hawthorne Effect Stephen J. Price
• A Sensitive Man Drinks Yellow Flowers Curtis McRae
• With Church Change Daniel Bay
• Twin Talk Courtney Bill
• Solstice Kathleen Keenan
• Nat in New York James Dunnigan
• The Bermuda Triangle Parastoo Geranmayeh
• Almost Sexual Glenn Willmott
• Knee-Deep (A Love Story) Kari Lund-Teigen

Poetry

• Coquina Heart Lauren Marshall
• The Landing of Mars Perseverance Angela Long
• Four Seasons on Lake Huron Ling Ge
• Tow Hill Leannah Riah Fidler
• Bunn’s Creek Lauren Marshall
• Waiting Bobbie Jean Huff
• We Return in September to a Question Lauren Peat
• Ambient Jessica Lee McMillan
• That year of first communion Rebecca Rogerson
• Uprooted Laurie Koensgen
• At Play Eleonore Schönmaier
• Divorce Angela Long
• Southern Ontario Leannah Riah Fidler
• Bloom Eleonore Schönmaier
• Madonna Lilies Bobbie Jean Huff
• Moonlit Night Ling Ge

• Curtain Call