Orpheus - Volume 39 - 2022
CONTRIBUTORS
POETRY
Azam Abbasi
Who Can Find Me?
Rino Aida
My Dream
Minami Akatsu
I am Riyan
Teresa Alcantar
Beach Front Trailer
Somiah Alkobadi
Alone
Ann Antonio
Expectations from the Great Wave
Ryotaro Aoki
Grand Canyon
Shawn A. Avalos
cloud9
Joe Bejarano
P.S. Journey
Vanessa Beltran
Desire, Incarnate
Hector Cabrera
Je cherche encore
Alyssa Cantu
The Facets of Excellence
Cycle
Fatyma Cendejas
Te Amo (feat. The World Is Yours, photograph)
Ana Dominguez
Mother Nature
Enlightenment
Carlos Ervin
The Moon
Moises B. Fuentes
Please Excuse Our Mess While We Renovate
Madelyn Gaines
Foolish Hope
Surfing the Waves
Abandonment
Twisted Epiphany
Cosme Garcia
CHANGE
Maia Garcia
Strawberry Pie
Red
El Dorado
Hollowed
Missy
To reach into your Sleep
Christopher Gomez
Forbidden
Bat-Ami Gordin
Note From A Metro Line
Black Cat on White Picket Fence
Ryosei Hayama
Table of My Ideal Life
Ruben Higareda Suarez
In the Moment collection
A Sad Morning
Sister
Ayaka Hirai
Kindness Person
Yukiro Hosoya
Journey
Uriel Jacobo-Prado
The Perfect Figure
Lola Jimenez
Universe
Mirror Mirror on the wall- Who’s the hungriest of them all
The Creature in my Heart
Yumiko Kato
The Morning of a Part Time Job
Mary Killeen Pena
For Medical Reasons
Madison King
For My Beloved
Modernity of the Wallpaper
Untitled
Kevin Lara
Thoughts for the Alimentation of the Soul
Musings on a Coincidental Encounter
Ann Marie Lawson
What I Want
Exhausting a place, Myself
Anahi Lomeli
Convenient Anxiety
Alice and the Eat Me Cake
Lischa Mears
The Forgotten Song
Fire and Ice
The Roaring Silence: A Contrapuntal
Before We Became Victims of Time
Samantha Nichols
Blue Eyes
Pencils
Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Pearl Harbor Answer
Joe Louis Nitro
Disposable; Irreplacable
Tori Ortega
Star Girl
Melinda Quach
Miss Rower of Summer Port
Zachariah Rush
Cruising down North Chester Ave.
Kentaro Sakasai
Space Odyssey
Lilliawna Shaffer
hazel
everlasting impact
Spencer Shepard
Horse Meadow Poem
In a wind sculpted field of golden springtime poppies
Morning Rituals
For Posterity’s Sake
Lydia E. Shimeall
wildfire
Chikai Shindo
I’m in a maze
Manisha Singh
Exhausting a Place
Trenten Sorci
Gods and Death
Rachel Stratemeier
A Relationship
Somewhere
Morgan Swift
Wishful Thinking
before it’s too late
Ian Tash
The Third Acts
Anju Tokano
World
Adriana Toledo
We’re over
Embodied Desire
Leah Truitt
Oyster Shells
Wishing for Canaries
Milk Tea
In Memory
Wes D. Werner
Thalassophobia
Monica Williams
Contemplation...?
A Mother’s Addiction
Left side Strong side
Roman Wolosz
Survive
Yubo Zhou
You
SHORT STORY
Teresa Alcantar
I Wish I Knew
Rosa Arredondo
Gumball
Vanessa Beltran
Charlie, Charlie
Live Art, A Short Story
Richard Boyd
The Princess and the Aye-Aye
Kathryn Buys
That Night in Banagher Forest
Alyssa Cantu
Dying to Meet You
Sarah Emery
a short story about my young self
Moises B. Fuentes
June 1st 2018
Katie Gonzalez
Crumbs
Elizabeth Gossett
Never Give Up on Your Dreams
Michael Ibarra
Gamma
iuxeayor
Once Upon a Blue Moon
The Dream Job
Lola Jimenez
Cloud and Smoke
Ann Marie Lawson
A Day In The Life Of A Cat
Landon Logue
The Hero Who Failed
Citlalli Luna
Linen Curtains
Dre Martinez
Luck
Lischa Mears
The Overpowered Meets Demise
Melinda Quach
The Knight of Trustworhiness: The Liar Who Lies All His Life
The Lives of Louise Labé
Alexis Robinson
The Dream
Angel Rosas
Big Sister’s Night
Destinee Sims
The Fey’s Dance
Ian Tash
The First Wave
Brain ALPHAsize
Artificial Creative Technology
Breakfast
Leah Truitt
Midnight Meanderings
Snickerdoodles
I Wasn’t Expecting A Ring
Wes D. Werner
You Are Here
Monica Williams
Corona-cation
NONFICTION
Samantha Nichols
The Night: 28 Sept 2009
DRAMA
Madison King
Wrathful Seed
Ian Tash
Keeping Up with the Kattamas
Monica Williams
It’s Dark Inside Sunshine Market
ARTWORK CONTENTS
Kiss of Life by Rivka Jones - Front Cover Art
Are You Coming? (photography) by Ian Tash - Inside Front Cover Art
World (colored pencils) by Anju Tokano
IRREVERENT SELF (canvas with acrylic paint) by Madison King
America (photography) by Kevin Lara
Claustrophobia (photography) by Kevin Lara
Crushing Rocks (photography) by Kevin Lara
Food for Thought (photography) by Kevin Lara
Final Exam (photography) by Ian Tash
Waiting for the Moon by the Sea (photography) by Kevin Lara
All That Is Gold (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader
Mystery Woman by Rivka Jones
Memories of Spruce Street (photography) by Ian Tash
A Still Beach (photography) by Kevin Lara
Damaged (painting) by Maia Garcia
Scarred for Life by Rivka Jones
Nesta (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader
Outcast by Rivka Jones
Syrinx (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader
Desc.: black & white sqirrel on tree (photography) by Bat-Ami Gordin
Desc.: maroon flowers (digital art) by Bailey Russell
Oak Tree (pencil sketch with digital editing) by Sidney Russell
Desc.: pink rose (photograph) by Bat-Ami Gordin
DonCorleonSmaug (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader.
In Bloom (photography) by Kevin Lara
Tyrant of the Pier (colored pencils) by Rosie Ayala - Back Cover Art
Azam Abbasi
Who Can Find Me?
Rino Aida
My Dream
Minami Akatsu
I am Riyan
Teresa Alcantar
Beach Front Trailer
Somiah Alkobadi
Alone
Ann Antonio
Expectations from the Great Wave
Ryotaro Aoki
Grand Canyon
Shawn A. Avalos
cloud9
Joe Bejarano
P.S. Journey
Vanessa Beltran
Desire, Incarnate
Hector Cabrera
Je cherche encore
Alyssa Cantu
The Facets of Excellence
Cycle
Fatyma Cendejas
Te Amo (feat. The World Is Yours, photograph)
Ana Dominguez
Mother Nature
Enlightenment
Carlos Ervin
The Moon
Moises B. Fuentes
Please Excuse Our Mess While We Renovate
Madelyn Gaines
Foolish Hope
Surfing the Waves
Abandonment
Twisted Epiphany
Cosme Garcia
CHANGE
Maia Garcia
Strawberry Pie
Red
El Dorado
Hollowed
Missy
To reach into your Sleep
Christopher Gomez
Forbidden
Bat-Ami Gordin
Note From A Metro Line
Black Cat on White Picket Fence
Ryosei Hayama
Table of My Ideal Life
Ruben Higareda Suarez
In the Moment collection
A Sad Morning
Sister
Ayaka Hirai
Kindness Person
Yukiro Hosoya
Journey
Uriel Jacobo-Prado
The Perfect Figure
Lola Jimenez
Universe
Mirror Mirror on the wall- Who’s the hungriest of them all
The Creature in my Heart
Yumiko Kato
The Morning of a Part Time Job
Mary Killeen Pena
For Medical Reasons
Madison King
For My Beloved
Modernity of the Wallpaper
Untitled
Kevin Lara
Thoughts for the Alimentation of the Soul
Musings on a Coincidental Encounter
Ann Marie Lawson
What I Want
Exhausting a place, Myself
Anahi Lomeli
Convenient Anxiety
Alice and the Eat Me Cake
Lischa Mears
The Forgotten Song
Fire and Ice
The Roaring Silence: A Contrapuntal
Before We Became Victims of Time
Samantha Nichols
Blue Eyes
Pencils
Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Pearl Harbor Answer
Joe Louis Nitro
Disposable; Irreplacable
Tori Ortega
Star Girl
Melinda Quach
Miss Rower of Summer Port
Zachariah Rush
Cruising down North Chester Ave.
Kentaro Sakasai
Space Odyssey
Lilliawna Shaffer
hazel
everlasting impact
Spencer Shepard
Horse Meadow Poem
In a wind sculpted field of golden springtime poppies
Morning Rituals
For Posterity’s Sake
Lydia E. Shimeall
wildfire
Chikai Shindo
I’m in a maze
Manisha Singh
Exhausting a Place
Trenten Sorci
Gods and Death
Rachel Stratemeier
A Relationship
Somewhere
Morgan Swift
Wishful Thinking
before it’s too late
Ian Tash
The Third Acts
Anju Tokano
World
Adriana Toledo
We’re over
Embodied Desire
Leah Truitt
Oyster Shells
Wishing for Canaries
Milk Tea
In Memory
Wes D. Werner
Thalassophobia
Monica Williams
Contemplation...?
A Mother’s Addiction
Left side Strong side
Roman Wolosz
Survive
Yubo Zhou
You
SHORT STORY
Teresa Alcantar
I Wish I Knew
Rosa Arredondo
Gumball
Vanessa Beltran
Charlie, Charlie
Live Art, A Short Story
Richard Boyd
The Princess and the Aye-Aye
Kathryn Buys
That Night in Banagher Forest
Alyssa Cantu
Dying to Meet You
Sarah Emery
a short story about my young self
Moises B. Fuentes
June 1st 2018
Katie Gonzalez
Crumbs
Elizabeth Gossett
Never Give Up on Your Dreams
Michael Ibarra
Gamma
iuxeayor
Once Upon a Blue Moon
The Dream Job
Lola Jimenez
Cloud and Smoke
Ann Marie Lawson
A Day In The Life Of A Cat
Landon Logue
The Hero Who Failed
Citlalli Luna
Linen Curtains
Dre Martinez
Luck
Lischa Mears
The Overpowered Meets Demise
Melinda Quach
The Knight of Trustworhiness: The Liar Who Lies All His Life
The Lives of Louise Labé
Alexis Robinson
The Dream
Angel Rosas
Big Sister’s Night
Destinee Sims
The Fey’s Dance
Ian Tash
The First Wave
Brain ALPHAsize
Artificial Creative Technology
Breakfast
Leah Truitt
Midnight Meanderings
Snickerdoodles
I Wasn’t Expecting A Ring
Wes D. Werner
You Are Here
Monica Williams
Corona-cation
NONFICTION
Samantha Nichols
The Night: 28 Sept 2009
DRAMA
Madison King
Wrathful Seed
Ian Tash
Keeping Up with the Kattamas
Monica Williams
It’s Dark Inside Sunshine Market
ARTWORK CONTENTS
Kiss of Life by Rivka Jones - Front Cover Art
Are You Coming? (photography) by Ian Tash - Inside Front Cover Art
World (colored pencils) by Anju Tokano
IRREVERENT SELF (canvas with acrylic paint) by Madison King
America (photography) by Kevin Lara
Claustrophobia (photography) by Kevin Lara
Crushing Rocks (photography) by Kevin Lara
Food for Thought (photography) by Kevin Lara
Final Exam (photography) by Ian Tash
Waiting for the Moon by the Sea (photography) by Kevin Lara
All That Is Gold (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader
Mystery Woman by Rivka Jones
Memories of Spruce Street (photography) by Ian Tash
A Still Beach (photography) by Kevin Lara
Damaged (painting) by Maia Garcia
Scarred for Life by Rivka Jones
Nesta (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader
Outcast by Rivka Jones
Syrinx (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader
Desc.: black & white sqirrel on tree (photography) by Bat-Ami Gordin
Desc.: maroon flowers (digital art) by Bailey Russell
Oak Tree (pencil sketch with digital editing) by Sidney Russell
Desc.: pink rose (photograph) by Bat-Ami Gordin
DonCorleonSmaug (digital art) by Jennifer Weir aka Fantasynovelreader.
In Bloom (photography) by Kevin Lara
Tyrant of the Pier (colored pencils) by Rosie Ayala - Back Cover Art