Thank you for viewing our publication of “Rotten,” the Spring 2025 issue of New Limestone Review. We’ve worked very hard to bring you something decaying, foul, spoiled, perished, putrid, and rotten. Please enjoy!

Nonfiction

What Comes Up by Angela Townsend

The List of Gruesome Places by Mark Brazaitis

Poetry

Everytime I Pass This I Wonder What Happens by Robin Gow

La Sonnanbula by Dale Going

Logan by Nicolas Visconti

Ampoule by Angie Macri

Ask Me and I’ll Tell You by Annie Przypyszny

Fiction

A Summer’s Night by Joel Streicker

I’m So Proud of You by Tommy Cheis

Lightning Bugs in January by Derek Updegraff

Frog Diet by Joseph Charles Mollica

Dumped by Mark Brazaitis

In the Woods Somewhere by Sabrina Canepa

Flash Fiction (New Category for Spring 2025)

Long Live the New Flesh, All Others Must Tip by Aaron Barreras

P. digitatum by Jean-Luke Swanepoel

To Beauty From Beast by Alaina Hammond

Art + Photography (New Category for Spring 2025)

#5532b by Ellen June Wright

Bird Inside Out by Serge Lecomte

Dilapidated Cage by Victoria Kezra

Up From the Depth by Irakli Mirzashvili

Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief + Nonfiction Editor: Bell McEntire

Poetry Editor: Samantha Ratcliffe

Fiction Editor: Kimi Hardesty

Fiction Editor: Cayenne Bareng

Interns: Mia Larson-Baldwin, Ariadne Macquarie, Peter Birsen