COVER ART — “Trek” by Heather Holm
Acrylic on panel, 10 x 10 in
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LETTER FROM EDITOR “Compassion for the Roads Not Taken” by Carol Ann Litster Young
ESSAY “Confessions of an Old Maid” by Tesia Tsai
BOOK REVIEW of Book of Mormon for the Least of These: Volume 3 — Reviewed by Rachel Rueckert
ESSAY “Unwritten Chapters” by Cherie Taylor Pedersen
ESSAY “Swerve” by Heather Sundahl
ESSAY “Pilgrimage” by Janessa Margaret Ransom
ARTIST FEATURE “Invisible Labor Made Visible Through Paint” — Interview with Megan Arne by Rocio Cisneros
ESSAY “Roads to Being” by Ashley Groesbeck
POETRY “Cephalanthera austiniae” by Dayna Patterson
ESSAY “Reclaiming My Footsteps: A Second Journey” by Emmaly F. Renshaw
POETRY “Strawberry Wine” by Sadie Marie
ESSAY “What If?” by Lauren Palmer-Merrill
POETRY “Beanboozled in Sharing Time” by Heidi Naylor
FICTION “Holiness to the Lord” by C. Chanel Earl
POETRY “What I Mean When I Say Las Vegas” by Terresa Wellborn
ESSAY “We Didn’t Wait” by Lorraine Jeffery
POETRY “The Hill Not Climbed” by Emily Parker Updegraff
ESSAY “Somewhere, Sometime” by Aislynn Collier
BOOK REVIEW of Dr. Martha Cannon of Utah: The Unexpected Victorian Life of America’s First Female Senator by Joan Jacobson — Reviewed by Ynna Padilla
ESSAY “Not Standard” by Madyson Ysasaga
BLOG FEATURE by Cynthia W. Connell, Abby Maxwell Hansen, Alma Frances Pellett
SABBATH PASTORALS “Wholly Perfect, Cracks Included” by Liz Malone
POETRY “Take me back to her tomato-faced shriek” by Dayna Patterson
ESSAY “Barrel Racing” by Amanda B. Erdmann
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