Pride, June ’25

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Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson

Guest Editor: Robbie Hess

Managing Editor: Karris Rae

Associate Editor: Taryn White

Assistant Editors: Leah Joseph, Jade Turner, Meilyn Woods

Deborah Chava Singer, “Rainbow Blossoms,” Digital Artwork

Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson

Letter from the Guest Editor by Robbie Hess

Fiction

“Circle of Fifths” by Richard Bader

“Figs” by Meg Pokrass

“Checking Out Library Books” by Deborah Chava Singer

“Walrus” by Sarp Sozdinler

Poetry

“I Stop Trusting Saint Anthony When,” ”Prayer for Another Hurricane Season from Afar,” & “Here Come the Girls” by Stacey Balkun

“Ricegay” by Joefel Bolo

“Versatile Villanelle” & “Sizzling Villanelle“ by Dustin Brookshire

“Climax is the Closest Thing to Surrender,” “fermentation,” & ”daydreaming in Starbucks that my husband is Queer” by Britt Bustos

“Trans Substantiation,” ”Hypertrophy,” & ”Lunacy” by Adrian Costello

“Farmland” by Craig Cotter

“There Were Signs” by Jazmine Becerra Green

“Liberation Will Come” & “Euphoria” by Icarus Olsen

“At fifteen you tell me I will probably never be okay,” ”Clueless, Phoebe Bridgers, and I were all born six months apart and that feels like it means something,” & ”The poem I write after reading Toni Morrison’s Sula” by Bleah Patterson

“FCA Doughnuts” by Mike Piero

“poem after a student at my university got on the mic at graduation and said trans people didn’t exist” & ”poem as instructions for survival” by Nat Raum

“Wolf Moon, 1986” & ”Blood Moon, 2025” by Daniel Nathan Terry

“Lazarus” & ”The First Books They Burned” by Francis Waguespack

“Queer Pursuits,” ”Lights the Moon to Spite the Sun,” & ”Mood 48 Is A Gay One” by Bradley David Waters

“Bra” by Lola Willis

Creative Nonfiction

“How to Knit a Trans-Solidarity Scarf” by Robbie Gamble

“Cracked” by Nonah Palmer

“Unconditionally Loved” by Nicole R. Zimmerman

Deborah Chava Singer is originally from San Diego, California where she studied truth with the Mesa College Theatre Company and Queer Players. She currently resides in Washington state. Her writing has appeared in Disabled Voices Anthology, Stonewall’s Legacy, Chantwood Magazine, Hashtag Queer 2, Santa Fe Literary Review, The Human Touch, Cirque, MUSE, Jonathan, Chaffin, Twisted Vine, Off the Rocks, and others. Her visual art has been published in Molecule Magazine, Harmony Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly, City Works Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Cirque, and Off the Coast and been included in shows in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. In 2024 she shared her Time.Light.Motion photography series in the Corner Gallery at the Camas Public Library in Camas, WA.

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