Kaleidoscopes, Sep ’25

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Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson

Managing/Guest Editor: Taryn White

Associate Editor: Leah Joseph

Assistant Editors: Robbie Hess and Jade Turner

Intern: Margaret Brantley

David Sheskin, “Fish Kaleidoscope 65”, digital

Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson

Letter from the Guest Editor by Taryn White

Fiction

“My Med School OSCE” by Christine Benton Criswell

“Banner Days” & “The Life of the Mind” by Linda McMullen

“The Second Law of Thermodynamics” by Shweta Ravi

Poetry

“Red Poem”, “Orange Poem”, & “Yellow Poem” by Paula Cisewski

“The Widow in the Window” & “The Cartomancer” by Alicia Cook

“Tattoos” & “Playing Dress Up” by Sophia M. Giudici

“Article Z: Letter to Dad” by Zebulon Huset

“Back then, they let us sift through broken glass” by Jean Janicke

“Redefinition” & “Taverna Row” by Donna J. Gelagotis Lee

“Blue Wheelchair” & “Piñata” by Nancy Carol Moody

“Heard and not heard at my grandmother’s wake” by Jordan Nishkian

“Thin Leaf” & “Blueprints for Winter” by Eivind Egeland Olsen

Art Gallery

“Seasonal Kaleidoscopes” by Anne Anthony

“Four Kaleidoscopes” by David Sheskin

David Sheskin is an artist and writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications
including Shenandoah, The Penn Review, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, and The Vassar Review.

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