Also in GEIST 133

“Yangbans of the Canadian Prairies” by JANE PARK

“Inside the Storm” by DANIEL ZOMPARELLI

“Empty Fountain, Unfound Smoke” by ZEENAT NAGREE

“Monstrous Bodies” by EMMA CLEARY

“Thirteen Portraits of Ishiuchi Miyako” by CHRISTINE LAI

Cover art by RACHELLE WUNDERINK

More artists in this issue: SONNY ASSU, DARIA BEER, APOORVA BISHT, HAYLEY CHIU, EIBLIN KOCH, TREVOR SLOAN, LAURENT GASCON and ISHIUCHI MIYAKO

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

Winners of the 2026 PolterGeist Writing Contest

Deep Fake by Jen Currin

S. A. T. by Cynthia Liu

Grace Beyond Our Doing by Evelyn Lau

Best Bird Friend by Angela Schmold

NOTES & DISPATCHES

How to Befriend Grief by Jill Boettger

A Return to Fanfreluche by Deborah Ostrovsky

Ballad of the Green Beginning by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri

La Ciudad by Sadiqa de Meijer

FINDINGS

“Yangbams of the Canadian Prairies” by Jane Park

“Four months in four days” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“Empty Fountain, Unfound Smoke” by Zeenat Nagree

“Pastimes” by Pascal Girard

“Inside the Storm” by Daniel Zomparelli

“The Three-Cornered Hat” by Leslie Van Duzer

“Monstrous Bodies” by Emma Cleary

COLUMN

“Thirteen Portraits of Ishiuchi Miyako” by Christine Lai

ENDNOTES

The Bigamist by Felicia Mihali, reviewed by Thalia Stopa

 Dreamer’s Daughter by Lori Thicke, reviewed by Michal Hayward

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy, reviewed by Patty Osborne

Wild People Quiet by Tara Gereaux, reviewed by Peggy Thompson

Fancy Gap by Zak Jones, reviewed by Malaika Mitra

My Mother Joins the Resistance by Richard Har­rison, reviewed by Cornelia Mars

Love, Joe: The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard; From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of

Edward Gorey; and Over to You: Letters Between a Father & Son, reviewed by Michael Hayward

Is This an Illness or an Accident? and SCAR/CITY by Daniela Elza, reviewed by David Shewell

Gui­tar Women: Conversations & Life Lessons with Six-String Heroines by Sue Foley, reviewed by Connie Kuhns

AND THE GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD