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From The Editors

“Building Space for Contradictions & Juxtapositions” by Alex J. Tunney

Hybrid

“Extended Call” by Larissa Hikel 🎞️

“42°29’43.4″N 73°12’22.7″W” by Cleo Levin 🔊

“mall stops” by Jeffrey H. MacLachlan 🔊

“The Five Year Anniversary of The Tornado That Took Down Turtle Creek” by Sarah Watkins 🔊

Poetry

“When I Die” by Cynthia Atkins 🔊

“Ready 2 Wear” by Jeffery Berg 🔊

“A Woman Walks into a McDonald’s” by M. P. Carver

“Shopping at C.V.S for Baby’s Foot” by Jessica Femiani 🔊

“Dead Mall, Christmas Eve, 2022” by Robert Fillman

“How To Stay” by Mark Allen Jenkins

“Claire’s, 1997, 2003, 2025” by Dara Laine 🔊

“Anne Confesses” by Anne Lucas

“155,000m² of Shopping, Entertainment and Leisure” by Samuel Prince 🔊

“Seagulls” by Carly Sachs 🔊

2 Poems (“Gary” & “Mallrats and Minor Chords”) by Sarp Sozdinler

“Mill Creek Drive” by J.T. Trigonis

“Celebratory Deflection” by Kelsey Carmody Wort 🔊

Nonfiction

“Mating Ritual” by Steph Auteri 🔊

“Fingerprints” by Crystal Taylor

“Mallrat Baptism” by Veronica Tucker

Fiction

“Sylvia” by Gareth Fitzgerald 🔊

Interviews

“I think contradictoriness is embedded in the idea of the mall”: An Interview with Alexandra Lange by Alex J. Tunney

“A gigantic cathedral of consumption”: An Interview with Kate Black by Sam Zimmerman

Photography

“The Fall of Chesterfield Mall” by Adam Jon Miller

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🔊 includes reading by the author

🎞️: includes short film created by the author

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Photography from “The Fall of Chesterfield Mall” by Adam Jon Miller. More work from this series can be found here.

Adam Jon Miller graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.A. in English and an emphasis in creative writing. Adam’s poetry was included or is forthcoming in the The Louisville Review, Yalobusha Review, Thimble Literary Magazine, The William & Mary Review, OxMag, In Parentheses, and The Dewdrop. His photography has been included in various literary journals. Adam’s poem “Hero” and short story “Tiny Village” were translated into Chinese. On good days, Adam happily scribes brew narratives for Idyll Hounds Brewery. Visit him and his work anytime at adamjonmiller.com.