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Letter From The Editor
Crack the Surface of THE GEODE
“Mrs. Sikalala” - Em C. M. Eilertsen
"Snail" - Sara Maria Greene
"Foggy" - Michael F. Bemis
"Desert Dust" - Ellen-Anna Lombardo
"Lessons In Taxonomy" - Gage Baldwin
"Anesthesia" - Joe Bisicchia
"Pulses Synched and Fading" - Katya Mills
"Invasion-theater" - Elle Jay Snyder
"worthwhile" - Mackenzie Landman
"on young boys & flying cars" - Gale Fabrikant
"Listen, Mary" - Heather Neidlinger
"When I Was a Teenager" - Emily Alston-Follansbee
"Wildling" - Michael Isham
"What Remains" - Aubrey Lynch
"Tiro & Cicero & Plato & Xenophanes Invent Texting" - Christopher Stolle
"Frankly" - Pete Riebling
"Taboo" - Cerys Pugh
"Anniversary" - Jon Hogland
"creatio ex nihilo" - henry 7. reneau, jr.
"The Heroic Arc of a Fat Kid" - Lamont Neal
"Minnows" - Angelena Acierno
"They Live Was Once a Movie" - Paul Potts
Geode Issue I
“My mother likes to repeat “when I die” phrases to me…”
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“Snail”
Sara Maria Greene
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to all of our contributors, readers, and creatives who submitted for publication in this issue! The Arts live on--in spite of--or because of, it all.
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