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The Current Issue: Fall 2025 Vol. 132 No. 3

Fall 2025 - Queen's Quarterly

 Fall 2025 Vol. 132 No. 3

Cover Artwork by Alison Gow

 

 

 

 

  • From the Editor ~ James Carson

  • Frankenstein in Jabaliya – Fatima Abdallah

  • From Bromley Rock – Danielle Hubbard

  • It Was Dark – David Halliday

  • the loneliness of the long-distance racewalker … “there is no finish line” Part 1 – Glenn Arthur Sweazey

  • My Proud Return to Mediocrity: A Hockey Tale – Anthony Jenkins

  • Is It a Crime to Rhyme? – Jenny Li Chen

  • Detours: The Long Way Home – Cecile Popp Mangtay

  • A Day in the Life of Ruskin – Rehanul Hoque

  • World Turtles – Puneet Dutt

  • The Holy Church Peacock Misses Its Lover – Ashleigh Cochran

  • A Bar That Lets Me Think – W. George Lovell

  • Doing Dishes During the War – Denver Jermyn

  • Mood Swings – Tanya Tomasch

  • Mzungu: Part 2 – Joe Davies

  • the loneliness of the long-distance racewalker … “there is no finish line” Part 2 – Glenn Arthur Sweazey

  • 2 jokes – Sean Meggeson

  • Mad Again – Sara Wilson

  • Old Fashioned – Sara Wilson

  • On the Black Sea – James Warner

  • Leading an Escape – Connie LeVert-Suite

  • A Season’s Turn – William Virgil Davis

  • context – Zoe Dickinson

  • Commerce – Lucia Lam

  • The Whale – Guy Elston

  • Luminaries Eat Kale – Patti Edgar Autumn

  • Light – Salma Hussain

  • The rock climber’s haibun – Danielle Hubbard

  • Waking at Night – Zsuzsanna Zsohar

  • Writing My Will During the War – Denver Jermyn

  • A Creature Comfort – Emily R. Zarevich

  • Catatonia – Eric Twa

  • Provisions – Jeric Tindoy Olay

  • Yellow Noise – Manny Cartagena

  • Theme Park – Ian Watt

  • Anti-Hospital Poetic Love Letter – Shane Neilson

  • the loneliness of the long-distance racewalker … “there is no finish line” Part 3 – Glenn Arthur Sweazey

  • Inside and Outside Cover Images by Alison Gow

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