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  • Black Gold

    by Hunter Johnson, fiction

    This story is complicit in destroying an ecosystem, our solar system, and the social structure of indigenous communities.

    September 4, 2023
  • jesus billboard

    By Robin Gow, poetry

    come & take off your face. my o my you could be a good telephone…

    September 4, 2023
  • Sealing Wax

    By Angie Macri, poetry

    I have dripped wax on the ends of birds’ wings, melting what was solid with fever. They eat everything from last year yet stay hungry…

    September 4, 2023
  • On Levitation

    art by Mirjana Miric, by Taylor Lewis Guthrie Hartman, nonfiction
    On Levitation

    I am all of five, laid out on my grandparent’s back stoop in the midday midwestern midsummer sun.

    September 4, 2023
  • The Day

    by Celia M. Ruiz, nonfiction

    September 25, 2008. “He’s not breathing,” our son’s girlfriend says, as she slips into our bedroom at three in the morning.

    September 4, 2023
  • A Spell for Finding Lost Things

    art by Ana Prundaru, By M. Cynthia Cheung, poetry
    A Spell for Finding Lost Things

    Theory: the ritual depends  on what I’d want to find: (who was)… 

    September 4, 2023
  • Ice Is A Rock That Flows*

    art by Ana Prundaru, by Megan Doney, nonfiction
    Ice Is A Rock That Flows*

    You and Tom have been together for three months when, meeting him for dinner, you’re taken aback to see that he has the remnants of a shiner, a fading plum-colored crescent on his cheekbone and a scarlet patch in the white of his eye.

    September 4, 2023
  • Greed Greed Greed

    by Chloe Cook, Poetry 2023

    In Covington, I smell the honeysuckle smeared across the hills: impenetrable yellow mocking the warblers as they guzzle mealworms…

    March 30, 2023
  • Still Life With Dog In The Yard

    by Joe Dahut, Poetry 2023

    The throat chaps from an easterly pumping harder now. A march of ants parade around the kettle in one straight line…

    March 30, 2023

New Limestone Review

New Limestone Review, formerly Limestone, is the literary journal of the University of Kentucky’s MFA in Creative Writing program.

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