Summer 2025: So the Story Goes… From mythology to old wives’ tales to folklore, humankind has always used storytelling to explain the world around us. Stories can explain the unexplainable, set culture norms, or spread a tale far and wide. The stories we tell about our world can entertain or caution, inform or terrify. In this issue, we explore the mutable and the magical elements of storytelling.

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Winter 2025: The Tree No One Heard The reverberations of moments that unfold behind shadows are not simple to capture. This issue’s writers and artists peer through the silence and and lucidly witness and record what otherwise goes unheard.

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Spring 2024: Every Day Gods We are always in relationship to the things around us–a tree looks at us funny, a glass of water is charged with anxiety that worsens the longer it is left out. There is a slowness required to find these gods. We assign human qualities to things to make sense of them.

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Summer 2023: Revolutions While revolution is a physical phenomenon, it is too powerful a term to exist only within a physical framework. Revolutions remind us that no break is definite, nor is it made in a vacuum. Change is constant, and always rolling around on itself, until all at once we realize everything has flipped.

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Winter 2023: Reflecting in Stasis: By taking a pause from the world’s hum and grind and sitting with their thoughts, reflections, and observations, the authors and artists featured in this issue share their many ways of turning inward.

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Summer 2022: The Past, Embedded & Breathing in the Future: Plumbing the depths of memory, both painful and delicious, this issue’s writing reminds us that history is a force that drives us forward. The past, however distant, echoes with its own mysterious energy in our everyday lives.

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Winter 2022: Floods and Tides: This winter season, the ebb and flow of connections—with family, lovers, friends, the earth, and the self—was a topic on writers’ minds.

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Fall 2021: Growth From Ruptures: In our inaugural issue of Wild Garlic, members of the Brooklyn Women’s Writing Group consider what new growth tastes like under their tongues, and the small sly ways we shoulder or slough off challenges to make our own space to grow.

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