The Stripes Literary Magazine
Issue V: Volume II [NOVEMBER 25, 2025]
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Cover Issue V: Volume II
Editorial Note
This volume is a dash. Picture it—a space, a pause, pointing at what might be real or not.
This volume is a metaphor for the empty, the vast. It is also the filling of spaces. We began this curation wary, and ended it curious.
In many ways, we sought to fill the space but, it filled us instead. It snaked up behind us and around us with emotions we cannot truly name.
But, this volume is also an invitation to become one with the space, to see it not as empty, but to let it speak.
Now more than ever, as the world burns, we look through the fire with hope that perhaps it is our rebirth and not the end.
Welcome to these Blank Spaces
May they fill you.
Abasiama Udom & Bright Kingsley
This volume is a metaphor for the empty, the vast. It is also the filling of spaces. We began this curation wary, and ended it curious.
In many ways, we sought to fill the space but, it filled us instead. It snaked up behind us and around us with emotions we cannot truly name.
But, this volume is also an invitation to become one with the space, to see it not as empty, but to let it speak.
Now more than ever, as the world burns, we look through the fire with hope that perhaps it is our rebirth and not the end.
Welcome to these Blank Spaces
May they fill you.
Abasiama Udom & Bright Kingsley
Tribute to Sharmon Gazaway
Sharmon Gazaway was a Dwarf Stars Award finalist. Her work appeared in The Forge Literary Magazine, Vilas Avenue, Backchannels, Abyss & Apex, and in anthologies from Blackspot Books, Air and Nothingness Press, Off Topic Publishing, and others. She was a beautiful and consistent support to us at Stripes Literary Magazine.
Poetry
Sonia Nicholson
Jill Eloise Vance
Faith-Anne Bell
Ace Boggess
Linda Crate
Tukur Loba Ridwan
Susanne Wolf
Bart Edelman
Sharisa Aidukaitis
Ayiyi Joel
Sharon Hoffmann
Judith Rosner
John Grey
Mary Salome
Anderson Moses
Renee Cronley
Kristin Zimet
Wainaina Salama
Khayelihle Glenrose
Geoffrey Aitken
Umenyi Evelyn
Diarmuid ó Maolalai
