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James K. Moran’s reviews also appear in Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude, and Xtra Magazine (née Capital Xtra). Moran’s poetry and speculative fiction have appeared in Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem AnthologyBurly Tales, Bywords, Glitterwolf. Icarus, On Spec, The Peter F. Yacht Club and elsewhere. His fiction collection Fear Itself and debut horror novel Town & Train were published by Lethe Press. Right now, Moran should be revising his second short-fiction collection. He lives on the unceded Territory of the Anishinabe Algonquin Nation, now called Ottawa, a word derived from the Algonquin adawe, meaning “to trade.”

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16 Feb 2026

Water is life here, and it's evident in that if you stray too far off the beaten path and away from water, you will get lost and you’ll be lucky if anyone sees you again before sundown. My village is settled neatly between two gentle rolling mesas and along a thin river in a sparsely populated community lovingly called ‘the valley’.
In the beginning, the ocean was lonely / and so she created a fifteen-year-old girl / (or was it the other way around?)
It’s me not you, and the / Hole in the sky still weeps sticky tears.
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