Universal Language, July ’25
Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson
Managing/Guest Editor: Karris Rae
Associate Editor: Taryn White
Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess, Leah Joseph, Jade Turner, Meilyn Woods

Nam Hoang Tran, “//||\\||//||\\||//,” photography.
Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson
Letter from the Guest Editor by Karris Rae
Fiction
“How Your World Ends” by Keith Powell
“Word Problems (You Do the Math)” by Christina Tudor
Poetry
“A eulogy for the rare-Earth hypothesis” & “The value of pointless activity: a proof” by Michael Galko
“The Wreck In Numbers” by Ken Haas
“Zeno’s Arrow” by Steve Harrison
“The Cost to Benefit Ratio of Grief” by Linea Jantz
“Calculation with Women as Birds in Post-Roe America” by Stefanie Kirby
“An Ode to Shakuntala Devi, or Puzzles to Frustrate You” by Gargi Mehra
“Numbers Frightened Me” by Robin Michel
Nam Hoang Tran is a multidisciplinary artist living in New Orleans. His work appears in Posit, The Brooklyn Review, ANMLY, New Delta Review, Tagvverk, Always Crashing, and Diode, among others. W/ Henry Goldkamp, he co-edits TILT – a journal of intermedia poetics.
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