The Shore Issue 30 — Summer 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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