Apple Valley Review - Fall 2025 cover

In this issue:

“The Burning Barrow”
fiction by Jack Jenkins

“Ars Poetica at Wegmans”
“Poem Beginning with a Forecast”
“On Planting a Garden While My Father Loses His Memory”
poetry by Steph Sundermann-Zinger

“The Lion”
fiction by Timo Teräsahjo
(translated from the Finnish by the author)

“2019”
“Sent by Pigeon”
“What Is”
poetry by Ekaterina Kostova
(translated from the Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova)

“The Telltale Tale”
fiction by Sohana Manzoor

“Brief Encounter”
poetry by Luis Alberto de Cuenca
(translated from the Spanish by Gustavo Pérez Firmat)

“Pray for Us Sinners”
fiction by Daniel Southwell

“End of the World”
poetry by Mario dell’Arco
(translated from the Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino)

“Gestas and Dismas”
fiction by Daniel Choe

“The Play”
prose poetry by Paul Dickey 

“The last words of my grandmother”
“That kind of money”
“Different people”
“Our dog”
“The maintenance manager”
poetry by DS Maolalai

“Grave”
creative nonfiction by Yi Li

“About Grief”
poetry by P M F Johnson 


Cover photograph: “a market with vegetables and fruits,”
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France
by Jacques Dillies

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