The Shore Issue 29 — Spring 2026
Adam Benedict Watched like a Dream
Amorak Huey
My Kink Is Distance
Aubade with Three Geese
Avriel Mejrah
Ephemeris (Mother)
Kelly Grace Thomas
Future Tense
Jacqueline Berger
New Year’s Day
Thia Bian
Love Poem Where Every Rhyme Ends in Suburbia
Godot, on Walking Backwards
Elena Zhang
The Immigrant
Adam Benedict Keeping Watch
Jenny Chu
After Dark
Cayla Garman
What Happens in Small Towns
Patrick Meeds
Yankee Cowboy Popstar
Candle Power
Brian Czyzyk
Halcyon
Shared Tongue
Ronda Piszk Broatch
We watch as apples fall into the mouths of horses
Lea Marshall
Twice
Fiona Jin
All I Have of You
Catherine Weiss
The Celebrity
Getting Out
Adam Benedict I Want to Live in Your Fishbowl
Morgan Matchuny
During Sex I Do the Math
Jessica Zhao
Mortgage in the Natural Chasm
Meggie Royer
Lars
Janice Northerns
Autumn in Kansas
Fez Avery
The Teachers Say This Isn’t the Apocalypse
Aaron Tyler Hand
Mirror Lake, Oregon
Megan Moriarty
At the Moment
Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi
All the Weed Next Door
Adam Benedict Lover’s Wardrobe
H G Dierdorff
At a point in the field
Heidi Seaborn
Cross-Country Road Trip
Becki Hawkes
Hoof Fungus
Tara Ballard
Love
H R Webster
Badlands
Gareth Adams
Evening out of the Window
Chris Cocca
Now That You’re in Gainesville
Nathan Fako
Like a Reed Made of Grass
Bridget Kriner
On Aftertaste
Adam Benedict Deer in Lace
Finlay Worrallo
How to Survive History
Özge Lena
Toxic Blue
Mary Buchinger
Librairie Jules Verne, Paris
Lisa Raatikainen
Mate
Nathaniel Julien Brame
Wallcreeper Housefly Doorman
Kaitlin Tan
Grief as Space Mountain (ii)
Katie Kemple
Walking in the park at dusk
Adam Benedict The Curtain Catches the Light & Fastens It to Me
Nancy Mitchell
Low Pressure
Dennis Hinrichsen
genesis throne feedback
Elinor Ann Walker
Tardigrade Song
Daniel Elias Bliss
As Easy to Leave as Anywhere
Nora Sun
The Consult
Adam Benedict
Art