Retro Summer, Aug ’25

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Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson

Guest Editor: Ume Aiman Tariq

Managing Editor: Taryn White

Associate Editor: Leah Joseph

Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess and Jade Turner

Intern: Margaret Brantley

Jay Edge, “Causeway Bridge from the Marina,” charcoal on paper

Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson

Letter from the Guest Editor by Ume Aiman Tariq

Fiction

“The Fireworks” by Swetha Amit

“A Nest of Hornets”, “Liking Joe”, & “The Summer My Mother Remarried” by Emma Goldman-Sherman

“Everyone at the Sand Sculpting Contest, Imperial Beach, California 1985” by Lynn Mundell

“Thalassophilia” by Selene Sezer

Poetry

“Sidewalk Chalk” by Isaiah Alexander

“Be st Fri end” by Rachel Beachy

“When We Lived in Ohio” by Kate Carabello

“Summer Camp” by Josh Lefkowitz

“night driving, ’89” by Danielle McMahon

“Third Degree” by Makena Metz

“Ode to the Tween Summers of the Late 1970s” by Kaila Schwartz

“Third Grade Math, Intro to Philosophy, and Other Disciplines” by Colette Tennant

“Waterfront” by André Le Mont Wilson

Creative Nonfiction

“One Long Sunday Afternoon of Oblivion” by Vanessa Blakeslee

“The Atlantic” by Grace Ann Elinski

Jay Edge is a North Carolina artist who concentrates on modes of drawing. Figure and landscape become motifs to connect/resolve internal experience against external subject. Inspired by the Southern shift of landscape, themes of preservation versus excavation push into technique. His work has evolved over decades while studying at Appalachian, Penland, the studios of various artists, with deep interest in the history of art-making. He lives in Wilmington with his family, stacks of books, and Nola Beans the Dog. 

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