Blooms in Dusk, April ’25
Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson
Guest Editor: Jade Turner
Managing Editor: Karris Rae
Associate Editor: Taryn White
Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess, Leah Joseph, Meilyn Woods
Interns: Ta’Mya Davis, Elaine Schroeder
Jay Edge, “Carnations (Bound in Bloom),” Conté & oil stick on paper.
Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson
Letter from the Guest Editor by Jade Turner
Fiction
“Ice Cream” by William Cass
“Making Deals” by Harvey Huddleston
“Dark Academia” by Pooja Joshi
“Bent Twigs” by Kathryn Kulpa
“The Sea of Trees” by Louise Palfreyman
“Giant Pandas Eat Bamboo” by Rina Palumbo
“Nike of the Salish Sea” by Eros Salvatore
“Baby Joseph” by Nathan Poole Shannon
Poetry
“Buried Emotions (a soliloquy)” & “Hollow Frame” by Ruchi Acharya
“In the Temple Shadows” by Maudie Bryant
“Exposure” by Roger Camp
“The World Is Like That Too,” “The Journey Begins—Again,” & “Sorrow’s Kitchen” by Diane Gottlieb
“Normal” by Makena Metz
“Caravaggio’s Shadow” by Colette Tennant
Art Gallery
“She began the apocalypse” by Brianna Condon
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