The Journal
Issue No. 9
Spring/Summer 2021

Fiction
Nada Alic
My New Life
Kenneth Calhoun
On a Day That Tammy Had Not Eaten Enough Yellow
Sarah Jane Cody
The House by the River
Charlie Fitz
Buoyancy
Jennifer Fliss
Projection
Robin Gow
Orange Dream Pop
Suzanne Grove
Exits
Tess Gunty
Baby Teeth
Karishma Jobanputra
Wittekerke
Sophie McCreesh
Models
Abuchi Modilim
Safe Land
Amanda Rizkalla
See-through
Jacquelyn Stolos
Marjorie and Ben
Katie Yee
The Dog is Choking on a Chicken Bone
Non-Fiction
Ayeh Bandeh-Ahmadi
Yukyung
Claire Barliant
Sunbeam
Melissa Faliveno
Excerpt from TOMBOYLAND
Sophie He
How to Write 'Death'
J. Jacqueline McLean
The King of Clyde
Anna Shults Held
This is just to say
Matthew Salesses
An Example from East Asian and Asian American Literature
Alisson Wood
Excerpt from Being Lolita
Art
Erika Diehl
Photographs
Ana Jovanovska
Portfolio
Danica Novgorodoff
Tango
Susanne Reece
August
Maura Schneider
Objects and Meanings
Poetry
No Tokens Young Poets' Prize
Liuyu Ivy Chen
Two Poems by Zhu Yiye
Ryan Clark
Martha
Rhiannon Conley
The Way They Say It Goes
Mariya (Masha) Deykute
A Manual on Starting a Revolution
Annie Diamond
With first lines from the Climate of Chicago Wikipedia page
Jai Dulani
the wonder years
Bernard Ferguson
niggas in the sun
Stephen Ira
Two Poems
Kate Lindroos
Living by the Sea
Angie Sijun Lou
Journey to find the scriptures only the scriptures are blank, after Wu Cheng’en
Rachel Mannheimer
In dreams I am a small-plane pilot
Olivia Mardwig
The Tear Down Party
H.E. Riddleton
Alternative Living After an Adult Autism Diagnosis
Xiao Yue Shan
A Photograph of Tomorrow
Janelle Tan
Origin Story
Other
Emily Burack
Storms & Reckonings: An Interview with Melissa Faliveno, author of TOMBOYLAND
Anaïs Duplan
Trio
Claire Hong
Interview with Jianhe tribe leader, Chief Hagu (哈古)
Claire Hong
Interview with Mr. Gong Yu Yao (龔于堯)
Marcus Jade
No Boundaries in Blues: An interview with Marcus Jade
Sarah Neilson
Lilly Dancyger on Negative Space
Nkosi Nkululeko
Chess and Poetry: May They Teach Us How to Learn
Courtney Zoffness
A Day in Questions