The Shore Issue 30 — Summer 2026
Sarah N B Vert
Samuel Dickerson
A Bowl of Hot Soup in Dallas, TX
Ode to Missing
Distance, Closing Distance
Come Sundown We’ll Be Together, We Don’t Have a Choice
Claire McQuerry
More than a year after the divorce,
Matriarchs of the Rust Belt
Julie Marie Wade
Grief as Troposphere
Ross White
Grunge
Aubade with Hair Spray and Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation
Kristen Lee
Whaling
Sarah N B The Memory of Green
Everett Jones
Tornado Season
Liz Robbins
Everyone Dies, The End
William Alexis
Crepuscular
Shannon K Winston
The End of Archives
Verona Charman
Autopastoral: So I’m Alive
Heather Hamilton
Jean Dow Makes a Final Discovery
Frau Troffea Invents the Dancing Plague
Sarah N B I Hear
M J Young
Light Damage
Abraham Porschet
After Bronk
John Estes
Chain of Custody
Leqi (Angela) Xiao
Corvid
Maggie Rue Hess
Queen of Globes and Mirrors
Maggie Wang
On Killing an Insect in My Kitchen
Emilee Wigglesworth
Earthworm
Sarah N B Empty
Alexa Doran
When I tell my son DINKs are at the fair for nostalgia, he says Yo that’s deep
David Moolten
Peep Show
Paul Potts
First Memory
Dan Albergotti
Listening to Heavy Metal, 1981 & 2024
Matthew Toth
heliotropism
Michelle Turner
Dear Sounds
Peyton Cole
Induced Labor
For Your Thoughts: A One Cent Elegy
Daniel DeVaugh
Universal Desire
Jennifer Bullis
Thinking of Leanna
Christine Light
I knew a scrub daddy
Sarah N B Typeface
Jingxuan William Zhuang
My Teacher Once Said To love
Chris Monier
Lockport
Daniel Amster
Refraction
Philadelphia’s Three and a Half Musicians
Carly Osborne
Full Lungs
Grant Clauser
Dare
Christy Prahl
Barbering
Barbara Daniels
Man from the Moon
Cici Zhang
Elegy for the American Southwest
Peter Leight
If I Die Today I’m Going for a Swim
Tom Laichas
Aria
Sarah N B Rushes
Svetlana Litvinchuk
The Carrying
Olivia Burgess
Equinox Understanding
Cole Pragides
Medication Schedule
Natasha Kochicheril Moni
At the Elles Exhibit, We Find Ourselves Adjacent
Sarah N B
Art