Also in GEIST 126:

"Trashpandas" by SUZANNAH SHOWLER

"Uncle Fester" by COLE NOWICKI

"Wayfinding" by SAMANTHA NOCK

Cover art by SANDEEP JOHAL

More artists in this issue: SARA ANGELUCCI, LEILA FATEMI, JULIA IREDALE, JOSHUA JENSEN-NAGLE, CATHERINE MELLINGER, DONNA SETO

… and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURES

"No Names" by Joseph Pearson

"End Times" by Evelyn Lau

"Monsters" by Kate Cayley

"The Dead Viking My Birthmother Gave Me" by Jerome Stueart

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NOTES & DISPATCHES

"After the Flames" by Kelly Bouchard

"Emetophobia" by Em Dial

"The Academy of Profound Oddities" by Dayna Mahannah

"Acoustic Memory" by Ernie Kroeger

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FINDINGS

"Trashpandas" by Suzannah Showler

"Uncle Fester" by Cole Nowicki

"Canada Goose Poem" by Peter Crowell

"Wayfinding" by Samantha Nock

"Awake For Ever" by Ali Blythe

"Treatment: Three Yelp Reviews" by Spenser Smith

"The Girl with the Most Cake" by Lisa Whittington-Hill

"Meaning of the Universe" by Kathryn Mockler

"What Do I Know of This Mother Tongue?" by Cara-Lyn Morgan

"Magazines Are Good, Magazines Are Very Good" by Gary Barwin

"Unframed" by Barbara Tran

"Papertown Open Bonspiel" and "Stoic Reminder Banquet" by Owen Towes

"Postcards from Inside the Machine" by Bradley Peters

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ENDNOTES

Godzilla Minus One, directed by Takashi Yamazaki, reviewed by Joseph Weiss

Canzone di Guerra: New Battle Songs by Daša Drndić, reviewed by Michael Hayward

No Fun, produced by Atomic Werewolf Records, reviewed by Jill Mandrake

Censorettes by Elizabeth Bales Frank, reviewed by Kristina Rothstein

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi (New York Review Books), reviewed by Patty Osborne

Gertrude and Alice, produced by United Players of Vancouver, reviewed by Michael Hayward

Our Flag Means Death, created by David Jenkins, reviewed by Helen Godolphin

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk, reviewed by Kelsea O'Connor

Jo Cook and Perro Verlag Books by Artists: The Unreadable Sacred, Kathy Slade at SFU Gallery, reviewed by Peggy Thompson

Galore by Michael Crummey, reviewed by Anson Ching

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AND THE GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!