The Shore Issue 24 — Winter 2024

Sagar Nair
Children Jumping into Deep Fryers

Sierra Hixon
Elegy for a Dress, Broken
Trick or Treat Elegy
To Be a Cannibal with a Minimum Wage Job

Derek Chan
Future-Perfect

Mary C Sims
Stasis
Inexorable

Stella Reed
Le Grisette, Paris 1888

Dylan Tran
Looking at My Venmo Feed and Getting FOMO

Kyla Guimaraes
Portrait of Vincenzo Peruggia Stealing the Mona Lisa
The Apocalypse Is Almost Here, So We Do the Dishes

Jacob Sheetz-Willard
Los Hermanos Penitentes
Instruction Manual

J P Dancing Bear
”Meanwhile, where is the sea? The city?”

Sophia P Smith
Nanticoke

Yev Gelman
Ars Poetica/Manuport

Michael Okafor
The Bullets Are Thinking about My Body Again

Hana Widerman
First Date Blues
This is Truth, Fresh in the Kitchen like Flowers

Jenna Jaco
Foot Content

Amber Rose Crowtree
Conditions of a Darkroom

Melissa Strilecki
One Electron Universe Postulate

Annie Przypyszny
Walking the Meditation Labyrinth in the Dog Park Near My Apartment

Dan Albergotti
Listening to Hounds of Love Today

Zack Carson
Post-Punk Romantics

Ammara Younas
a paleontologist discovers my father’s fossil

Brian Satrom
The Physics of It

Bri Griffith
for Andy, who I hope one day is swallowed by a whale

Jen Hallaman
when we move to a flat place

Aiman Tahir Khan
Kintsugi

Christien Gholson
Mercy

Maree Cianci
Bei Schlawinchen

Joseph Radke
You Can’t Separate Absence from Presence by Distance Alone

Jeff Whitney
Some Thoughts after Hearing a Youth Pastor Say Jesus Was the First to Be Cancelled

Zebulon Huset
Multiverse 2008A: Dad and Tony Stark

Mihaela Mihailova
Teratoma (n.) —benign tumor full of developed tissue

Allison Cundiff
Turpentine Bath

Jennifer R Edwards
Star Slumber Party

Lila Cutter
Shadowgraphy

Meagan Chandler
Necropolis

Chris Hutchinson
Breakfast at the Armory Hotel in Bozeman, Montana

Lucas Cardona
Laura

Jodi Balas
Vein

Jo Ann Clark
We riddle the resident astronomists
Humane

Johanna Magin
Half-light

Sascha Feinstein
The Saga of the Bark Zamora

Barbara Duffey
crepuscule song

Derek Ellis
Pastoral with My Shepherd

Jennifer K Sweeney
Heartbeat Sound Machine

Ari Koontz
Art