Also in GEIST 132

“Street Haunting” by CHRISTINE LAI

“Ragnar” by HOLLAY GHADERY

“Shadow Price” by FARAH GHAFOOR

“We, the Kindling” by OTONIYA J. OKOT BITEK

Cover art by JAN CONN

More artists in this issue: JASPER BEREHULKE, LEX ERRAZO, ELIF GIRAY, MARA LAIKA, LENA MUTAFOV, MICHELLE SOUND, PRISCILLA YU, MIKIKO HARA and TAMIKO NISHIMURA

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… and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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FEATURES

This Is All I Do Now by Alex Leslie

For Parents Who Have Already Read “What Exactly Is A Birthmark?” by Kate Reider Collins

Too Many Solstice Nights by Erin Vosters

Tender Curses by Nikki Celis

NOTES & DISPATCHES

Bodies of Water by Emily Moore

It Got Worse and I Moved to Canada by Sage Tyrtle

A Map and a Compass by Ian Roy

Driving Through the Prairies, Through Possibility by Jade Riordan

Anatomy of a Meadow Island by Jess Housty

FINDINGS

“Under the Overpass” by Cole Nowicki

“Fruit Salad” by Cathon

“Muriel’s Café” by Rosalind Goldsmith

“Shadow Price” by Farah Ghafoor

“Floods Come in Waves” by Nora Loreto

“BAO (9) BAE (36)” compiled by Kelsea O’Connor

“Ragnar” by Hollay Ghadery

“We, the Kindling (Maggie)” by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

and more…

COLUMN

“Street Haunting” by Christine Lai

ENDNOTES

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid, reviewed by Thad McIlroy

Odyssey by Stephen Fry, reviewed by Michal Hayward

A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black, reviewed by Daniel Francis

Persona (Şahsiyet), reviewed by Patty Osborne

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, reviewed by Angela Runnals

Monster by Jowita Bydlowska, reviewed by Thalia Stopa

Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book, reviewed by Helen Godolphin

The Feminist Art of Walking by Morag Rose, reviewed by Kristina Rothstein

Bread of Angels by Patti Smith, reviewed by Cornelia Mars

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, reviewed by Anson Ching

Holiday, directed by George Cukor, reviewed by Morgan Maclaren Beck

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AND THE GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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