Issue 178

• Welcome to this Issue Pamela Mulloy

Dispatches

• How the Intersections of Queer and Palestinian Identities Swipe at the Achilles’ Heel of Zionism Ziyad Saadi
• Solidarity from the extant diaspora Alice Burdick

Spirit Ink

• Trees But Not Just Trees Tiffany Morris
• Where They End Tiffany Morris
• Wapoqsit (Sunbleached) Tiffany Morris

Writer-At-Large

• You Should Just Paint Aileen Lee
• Safekeeping Denise Unrau
• The Cabin Ian Roy

Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest

• Mary Jain’s Last Dawn Sierra Jain-Lalande
• Known As Deborah Ostrovsky
• Shelter: A Personal History Leona Theis
• What Has Gone Away, What Remains Scott Randall

Poetry

• At Dawn, the Mist Susan Glickman
• Labour of Love John Morris
• The Surfeit Nicole Boyce
• to be, at last Lynda Monahan
• A Beauty in Silence Kat Cameron
• A Drop of Water Angela Waldie
• The Embrace John Morris
• impossible demands Veronika Gorlova
• Haptic Mirror Preeti Kaur Dhaliwal

Fiction

• The Next Mile Ryan Turner
• The Love Language of Roaches Brittany Amos
• The Storytellers Jennifer Falkner
• The Call of the Void Brandon Nadeau
• Downtown Paul McKeague
• The Diagnosis Calvin Lantz
• Letting it Happen Susan Mockler
• The Shadows Asleep Rhema Sara Varkey
• Alice’s Yearning Sandra Campbell
• Landlord Nour Abi-Nakhoul
• Here and There Elfermin Mallari
• Domestic Pigs Patrick Cunningham

• TNQs

• Curtain Call