Lake Effect
Volume 29
2025
Fiction
- Marie-Helene Bertino, The Night Gardener
- Tina May Hall, The Extinction Museum: Exhibit # 684 (Vechur cow femur on wooden plinth)
- Tina May Hall, The Extinction Museum: Exhibit # 467 (old aspirin box containing segments of Ancylostoma caninum)
- Hannah Cajandig-Taylor, Local Meteorologist Avoids Professional Obligations; Goes Camping Instead
- Hannah Cajandig-Taylor, Humansville Residents Commemorate Striking Occasion
- Morris Collins, The Names of Birds
Poetry
- Hollie Dugas, Self-Portrait as a Therapy Doll Applied in a Breakup
- Lola Haskins, Inside My Right Ear
- Abbie Kiefer, I’m Tired of Writing All These Sad, Sad Poems
- Elton Glaser, Afterthoughts on Eden
- Dorothy Barresi, The Sea of Galilee
- Alice Friman, The Rescue
- J.D. Hibbitts, Lost Elegy: The Stove Whisperer
- Marjorie Stelmach, Let It Burn
- George Kalamaras, Drinking Coffee at the Only Bar in Dixon Because Richard Hugo and James Welch Had Whiskey There
- Eugene Gloria, Rain in Paris
- John Gallaher, Self-Portrait in Interpersonal Landscape
- Stephen Gibson, Seated Female Impersonator with Arms Crossed over Her Chest, NYC, 1960
- John Bradley, Nazi Nurse with German Children, Circa 1941, New York Times, April 6, 2024
- Chris Pellizzari, The Hotel in the Plaza in Front of the Cathedral
- Christine DeSimone, Ghost Chili
- Doug Ramspeck, Orchard
- Michael Morris, Two Birds
- Jim Daniels, My Daughter Hula Hooping
- Lance Larsen, Boy Playing Tuba on the Shores of Lake Titicaca
- Gabriel Dunsmith, Subarctic Aubade
- Ken Holland, Cinéma Vérité
- Sheree La Puma, Don’t Come Here Looking for a Bargain
- Agnieszka Tworek, Granary of Light
- Agnieszka Tworek, Who Sings on the Other Side of the Night?
- Timothy Geiger, The Penitent
- Kareem Tayyar, Pilgrimage Blues
- Kareem Tayyar, Country and Western
- Stefanie Kirby, Topography
- Stefanie Kirby, Tragedy
- Paula J. Lambert, Vanitas
- Beth Anstandig, One Horse Wandering Between Two Unnamed Hills
- Erin Wilson, Late Summer
- Al Maginnes, Alabama
- Al Maginnes, Sinnerman
- Eli Karren, Maybe It Is a Wonderful World After All
Literary Nonfiction
- Christi Leman, Nothing Gold
- Joachim Glage, Excerpt from Occasions of Death
- Jean McDonough, Palmistry for a Dying Man
- Jeffrey N. Johnson, Mornings at the Medici Fountain
- Barbara Hurd, Meanwhile, the Seeds: how we see when grief is what we feel