Apple Valley Review - Spring 2026 cover

In this issue:

“Queens Plaza”
poetry by Julia Lisella

“Masses”
fiction by Mary Luna

“[He’s dead & we’re still brushing our teeth]”
“[You’re waist-deep in the silo]”
“[My sister prowls the Rexburg listings]”
poetry by Jackson Burgess

“Remembering the Longest Day on Earth on the Eve of the Election”
poetry by Joshua Tilton

“What Brings You Here”
“Putting Things In and Taking Them Out”
“Good for You”
fiction by Lisa Beech Hartz

“Marrow”
“Onion”
“Bless Me”
poetry by John Minczeski

“Help Is on the Way”
fiction by Wendy Elizabeth Wallace

“Bollards”
fiction by Jon Acheson

“In a Forest in Assam”
poetry by Sambhunath Chattopadhyay
(translated from the Bengali by Kingshuk Sarkar)

“Umeboshi”
fiction by Kimmy Chang

“The Zoo Was Nearby”
“Request”
poetry by Renee Emerson

“After”
“Dark Room”
“Feed”
“Suspension”
“Burn”
poetry by Igor Monsellato

“Distances”
memoir by John Picard


Cover photograph: “Peacock Close Up,”
Iberostar Paraiso del Mar, Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico
by Tim Mossholder

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