Aurora 2025 with cover

Contents

Poetry We Were Walking – a villanelle Ashley Zembrycki God Did Not Bless America Today

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18

Anonymous

A Siren’s Song

21

Mariah Szekely

26

Lakefront Reverie

Sara Yanez

29

Hearding Cats

Hillary Moseley

39

Vanity of Vanities

Kaitlyn Carpenter

44

The Hurt

Detra Lynn Mills

64

Ukraine is my Home

Svitlana Ramer

71

Shadows of a Past Life

Aliyah Orten

Fiction Untitled

32

Kay Shae

54

The Hollow

Justin Sullins Creative Nonfiction You’re Reading This, Aren’t You?

73

Kaitlyn Carpenter

76

Illustrations of a Home

Aliyah Orten

Art Untitled

10

Marissa Burnett

5