Cover Art: “The Illusion of Control” by Diamante Lavendar
Associate Editor
Mary Hoffman Cook
Editor-in-Chief
Spencer R. Young
Fiction Editor
Molly James
Poetry Editors
Tucker Newsome, Ben Trickey
Assistant Fiction Editor
Liana Martin
Nonfiction Editors
Sara Partin, Pete Loganbill
Social Media Manager
Nyssa Owens
Art Editor
Hunter Scott
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Kimball Smith
Readers
Achilles Seastrom, Jessica Moore
Editor’s Note
Here we are at another ending. The end of another Spring, rainy and blossoming, over too soon. The end of another semester, fingers stained in blue highlighter, minds bent towards impending ceremonies and celebrations. For us at Touchstone, it is the end of another year spent with words, many of which appear in this expansive collection of poems, stories, essays, and art…
Poetry
EDITOR’S PICK
"BIRD • BONES" BY DANAE YOUNGE
EDITOR’S PICK:
“RUSSIAN INTERLUDE” BY KATHRYN BRATT-PFOTENHAUER
Adrianna Gordey
Love Poem Disguised as Target TV Stand Instructions
DS Maolalai
Some important point.
William Rieppe Moore
Greystone, Tennessee
Lindsey Novak
Pain Body
Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith
Compare This
Lindsay Donovan
“Benedictions” Inside Street Park
Walter Hill
Regarding Facts
Brookes Moody
Or, The Whale
Michelle Morouse
My mother listens to her kitchen radio in Detroit in 1955
Damen O'Brien
Pulling Out the Tablecloth
Fiction
EDITOR’S PICK:
"HORSE GRAVES" BY ZAChary SLINGSBY
READER’S PICK:
"THE REFUGEES" BY ANISHA BHADURI
READER’S PICK:
"GREEN LIGHT GO" BY ALICIA ONG
Nonfiction
EDITOR’S PICK:
"BLONDE SUGAR" BY REBECCA WATKINS
T.F. Lawrence
When the World Becomes You
Andrew Sarewitz
Joe…What's His Face
Devin Meireles
How a Picture Tells a Life Story
Anthony Velasquez
Annyeong To All That
Art
Touchstone Undergraduate Creative Writing Awards
2022 Runners-Up:
2022 Winners:
Poetry
"Your mother never taught you Spanish" by Thailyea (Thai) Lopez
Poetry:
"Commuting" by Rebekah Hutchinson
Fiction
"On the Settling of Dust" by Tyson Doll
Nonfiction
"My Emotions in Various Forms" by Khloe Kuckelman
Fiction
"A Certain Kind of Stranger" by Taylor Jamison
Nonfiction
"A Housewife's Everlasting Tale" by Raelynn Slipke