Tahlia Day
Table of Contents | 18 August 2025
Poetry
The World Awaits My Little Chicken 
By: Trevor Tingle
What will you pay to watch the sky fall?
Poetry
[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy] 
By: Em Setzer
We only meant to send you there for sleep.
Fiction
Yesterday 
By: A.M. Barrie
Everyone remembers where they were when the trees first groaned “yesterday.”
Reviews
Monday: Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill 
By: Sally Parlier
Wednesday: Dark Worlds We Wander by Kristin Kirby 
By: David Lewis
Friday: Ley Lines by Tim Welsh 
By: Cameron Miguel
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