WINTER
2025 | Young Writers | Issue Two
2025 | Issue Two
Young Writers Feature
from Unfinished
POETRY
Genre cover by Sophia Stadalsky
Projections
Projections
Genre cover by Sophia Stadalsky
How To Write a Handprint: Ars Poetica
Lila Hayes
“It seems small, / a plea of red resting in a world bigger than you / can comprehend, but it’s all you’ve got.”
If Doing What You Loved Paid Bills
Lucille Harper
“If I were an author, nights would be for stargazing. / Peering at white ink blots seeping into the black pages of space.”
“Discarded flip-flops lie in rows / Like soldiers marching to freedom.”
Off the Malecón
Kayla Diaz-Janes
“Let it rest with the sand and the sea turtle eggs. / Teach them about death before they make it to the water.”
As We Walk on the Beach: a Pantom
Maren Spangler
The Train
“The Woman steps onto the train and waits to find Herself again.”
Ruby Varallo
My Sister, My Mother
“Elle was born with her palms together and head bowed.”
Rachel Wheelon
Sestina: Who Art
“my house and my pew are just a little bigger around us, / but i talked to my Father one last time in a dream up there”
Niamh Carmichael
The Trunk People
“Its body / is home to the hollow, the harrowed / the happily lost”
Brooklyn Mayberry
from Unfinished
PROSE
Ecgonine Tree
Ecgonine Tree
Genre cover by Braeden LaRoche
Genre cover by Braeden LaRoche
“I watch him reload the gun, and he presses it to my chest. He huffs as he steps back, “Just don’t mess up.”
Aspen Ross | Fiction
Buckshot
“Over the years Ted tried to convince his mother to replant the yard, get it back to how it used to be, but she just left it. Slowly, it seemed, the mud began to cling to the house, the foundation sinking down lower and lower, rooting in.”
Zoe Jones | Fiction
Water Fed
