The ToC for 34 Orchard Issue #12, Autumn 2025, has arrived! The issue will be released this coming MONDAY, November 10, 2025.

In Issue 12, twenty artists wander the corridors of longing.

When we think of longing, we think of desire, nostalgia, hope, regret, tenderness, desperation, and resignation. But its power shouldn’t be underestimated—it can change the course of our lives. It can drive us to take a job or leave it, marry or divorce, cling to an addiction or let one go, end something or start something new—or, in my case, it can show us where we truly belong.

Our ToC:

Cover: The Reach – Brenna Monaghan Behel

Silent as a Fish– Megan Savage

Keepsake Box – Lynn Wiser

Dia De Los Muertos: from the Family Album, 1971– Celeste Pfister

The Empty Spaces Between the Stars – Maria Giannone

Stitches – F.C.E Ngwube

Quartz Contentment – Geoffrey Reiter

Thanksgiving, Reykjavik – Carolanna Lisonbee

Broken Pearls – Vonnie Winslow Crist

On Wanting On Needing – JJ Norris

Headcase – Scotty Milder

Note to a ghost – Mia Marion

What Kiki Kolby Paints – Ellen Graham

You Already Know How This Will End – Eleanor Lennox

The World of You – Evan H. Brisson

A Face Known – Pranav

November Lambs – Robbie Gamble

The Hermit – Annie Dunn Watson

Animals – Zina Mona

St. Xero – Logan McConnell

And just in time for the darkest days of November, my introductory essay is a true ghost story, so don’t miss it!

Arrives on the 34 Orchard website here https://34orchard.com/issues/ on our issues page on November 10!