May 2025 Issue
Without Dibby Munsen by Avitus B. Carle
Natty Light: Tastes Like Your Dad by Mallory Smart
We Only Have Eyes For You by Fiona McKay
Popcorn for Hale-Bopp by Marie-Louise McGuinness
Flirt by Patricia Q. Bidar
The Scoutmaster’s Son by Gary Fincke
Sour by Amy Marques
Bird in the Desert by Kip Knott
Oral Herstory by Sage Tyrtle
Binary Stars by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Chynoweth by Karen Schauber
Jacob Wants to Go to The Zoo by Rina Palumbo
Artist Credit:
Orlando native Kaylan Stedman Friedman is an illustrator out of Torrance, California. With a Master’s in TESOL, she teaches English by day and pursues her passion for art and illustration at all other waking moments. For more art, peruse past Ghost Parachute issues, follow her Instagram, @k.s.illustrations, or support her on Etsy at www.etsy.com/shop/ksillustrationsstore.
Courtney Burton is an artist, writer, and musician living in Springfield, Missouri. Her work is featured or forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly and Moon City Review.
Orlando native Kaylan Stedman Friedman is an illustrator out of Torrance, California. With a Master’s in TESOL, she teaches English by day and pursues her passion for art and illustration at all other waking moments. For more art, peruse past Ghost Parachute issues, follow her Instagram, @k.s.illustrations, or support her on Etsy at www.etsy.com/shop/ksillustrationsstore.
Brittany Williams is an illustrator based out of NYC. To see more of her work, follow her on instagram @britts.illustrations.
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She’s been nominated for multiple awards, longlisted twice in Wigleaf 50, and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Unlost, Ghost Parachute, BOOTH, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is editor & visual artist for the Duets anthologies, author & artist of the chapbook Are You Willing? and the found poetry book PARTS. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Brett J Barr is an artist/tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Orlando, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.
Contacts:
brettjbarr@yahoo.com
Facebook/Brett J Barr
Instagram/brettjbarrtattoos
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Courtney Burton is an artist, writer, and musician living in Springfield, Missouri. Her work is featured or forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly and Moon City Review.
Amy Marques grew up between languages and places and learned, from an early age, the multiplicity of narratives. She’s been nominated for multiple awards, longlisted twice in Wigleaf 50, and has visual art, poetry, and prose published in journals such as Streetcake Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Fictive Dream, Unlost, Ghost Parachute, BOOTH, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Gone Lawn. She is editor & visual artist for the Duets anthologies, author & artist of the chapbook Are You Willing? and the found poetry book PARTS. More at https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com.
Brett J Barr is an artist/tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Orlando, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.
Contacts:
brettjbarr@yahoo.com
Facebook/Brett J Barr
Instagram/brettjbarrtattoos
Shop Insta/built4speedtattoos
built4speedtattoos.com/brettjbarr
Brett J Barr is an artist/tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Orlando, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.
Contacts:
brettjbarr@yahoo.com
Facebook/Brett J Barr
Instagram/brettjbarrtattoos
Shop Insta/built4speedtattoos
built4speedtattoos.com/brettjbarr
Brett J Barr is an artist/tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Orlando, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.
Contacts:
brettjbarr@yahoo.com
Facebook/Brett J Barr
Instagram/brettjbarrtattoos
Shop Insta/built4speedtattoos
built4speedtattoos.com/brettjbarr
Brett J Barr is an artist/tattooist, born in Easton Pennsylvania. He grew up in Daytona Beach, moved to Orlando FL in 1997 and now resides in Orlando, FL. Aside from tattooing at Built 4 Speed Tattoo in Orlando, Brett enjoys many different art forms such as graphite, charcoal, paint, pen and ink, mixed media/graphic design, woodworking miniatures and studies classical guitar.
Contacts:
brettjbarr@yahoo.com
Facebook/Brett J Barr
Instagram/brettjbarrtattoos
Shop Insta/built4speedtattoos
built4speedtattoos.com/brettjbarr
