Pride: June ’26
Editor: Vallie Lynn Watson
Managing Editor: Taryn White
Guest/Assistant Editor: Robbie Hess
Associate Editor: Leah Joseph
Assistant Editors: Jade Turner
Intern: Sam Manuel
Molly Klingler, “Influence of Identity,” oil paint
Letter from the Editor by Vallie Lynn Watson
Letter from the Guest Editor by Robbie Hess
Fiction
“Her Treat” by Antonia Cardinale
“The Best Man” by Lio Kammueller
“Marianne” by Alanie Lacy
“The Rubiks Cube” by Eleanor Levine
“Waving, Not Drowning” by David Lohrey
“Rakpabon (รักษ์ป่าบอน)” by Ashley Mangtani
Poetry
“Invisible Countries” & “Late Nights” by Gage Baldwin
“Vacancy”, “Conditional”, & “Vers” by Joe Bishop
“Drifting Villanelle”, “Dammit, A Villanlle About the Moon”, & “Survival” by Dustin Brookshire
“Onset Gender Dysphoria Meets Quarter Life Crisis” by Talon Drake
“We Gathered Them by Hand” by Awen Fenwick
“Family Name”, “Water Works”, & “‘I’m Doing My First E Shot Tonight, Can You Help Me?‘” by August Helpling
“Queer Lineage” & “Peach Preserves” by Dallas Raquel Klein
“Asphodels, How I’d Like To Be Buried With Them” by Corinne Klosinski
“Pornographic Poetry Template” by Daniel Edward Moore
“What I’m Thinking on October 25, 1986”, “No, I Won”, & “Sunday at the Wal Mart”by Ricardo Moran
“At the District Hotel” by Jay Paine
“Duplex for T-Boy Sex” by Cory Quinn
“Audacity” by Shelly Rodrigue
“The Collar Holds” by Topher Shields
“Chicken Fight” by S.K. Taggart
Creative Nonfiction
“Gradually She Finds Her Voice” by John Janelle Backman
“On Eldering” by Clayton H. Eccard
“The Wind Blows Heavy” by Lila-Josey James
“On Death & Dating” by Morgan Rose-Marie
Art Gallery
“Jelly Roll Pride” by Abigail Bentz-Stevens
“Coming Out” by Kale Hensley
“Ansley” by Donald Patten
“So You’re Staying with Her?” by Matthew McCain
Working to express movement through a static medium, and the collective energy of the surrounding environment, Molly Klingler’s paintings explore color, and loose but cohesive brush strokes. Molly is an artist from Moscow, Idaho. She got her BFA from the University of Idaho with emphasis in printmaking, ceramics, and painting.
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