Aurora 2021 Mag

Contents

Poems

Wondering.................................................... The Masks We Wear.................................... If You’re Okay, I’m Okay............................ The Night My Mom Swept the Street......... Fall Apart..................................................... Picking Up Trash......................................... Open Letter to Myself Upon Graduation.... I Don’t Hate You......................................... Claymore..................................................... Paintings of Time........................................

Catherine Altimari................ Dr. Penny Quinn................... Lydia Ingram........................ Catherine Altimari................ Tavia Hedrick....................... Dr. Paul Salstrom................. Briana Cramer...................... Tavia Hedrick....................... Lydia Ingram........................ Carmela D’Agostino............ 11 12 29 46 49 51 53 54 57 78

Fiction

Shoes............................................................ Bus Stop...................................................... The True Story of Humpty Dumpty............

Briana Cramer...................... Mary Goss............................ Rhonda Daniels.................... 21 32 43

Creative Nonfiction

Psychology in a Cat Cafe - Part Two.......... Move On..................................................... Oatmeal Raisin Cookie................................ The Forest’s Song........................................ The Sun Don’t Care....................................

Eric Hubbard........................ Ally Groves.......................... Ally Groves.......................... Tavia Hedrick....................... Braden Kelsey....................... 15 25 31 36 39

Art

Colors of Summer........................................ Eye of Creation............................................ Jeffrey........................................................... Sweet Betsey.............................................. Subtractive Sculpture.................................. City of Reflection........................................

Emma Taylor........................ Natalie Owens...................... Lynsey Cook......................... Jonathan Soard..................... Mackenzie Slone.................. Andrea Lewis....................... 10 13 14 18 19 20

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