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Cover of Subtropics 39. The image shows a close-up photograph of palm trees and bushes in a swamp-like area.
Issue 39: Summer/Fall 2026

Fiction

  • Roy KeseyThree Calls
  • Daniel GalefCassini Cuts Up
  • Carol GilliganOn Not Being Invited
  • Nathaniel LachenmeyerYesterday I Made the Board
  • Sindya BhanooThe Visitors
  • Bennett SimsWe
  • Wynne HungerfordLet Me Explain

Poetry

  • Jacqueline OsherowA Kroyn Far Lita
  • Sarah EdwardsCreation Story
  • Michael O’RyanMeditation at a Utah Motel, August
  • Christopher Warner Apprentice to Water
  • Hua Qing (Translated by Liang Yujing) 海螺 (Conch), 双龙洞 (Double-Dragon Cave)
  • Sunil IyengarAubade
  • Katherine E. YoungPorcelain
  • Max SchleicherTimes Cinema
  • Trevor Moffa Subway
  • Jordan HamelHow to Hit Your Step Count on the Hedonic Treadmill
  • Robert ThomasSonnets with Blitz and Blue Ridge
  • Emily SchultenIn the Cry Room, The Smell of Rubber and Oranges Drifts from Florida to Everywhere, Lesson in Vocabulary: Unsalvageable

Essays

  • Jill CimentThe Jewish Nose
  • Debra SparkI See You

Found Photographs

  • Lovett’s Grocery, Quincy, Florida

Crossword

  • Matthew StockSubtropics Cryptic No. 3