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href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/sweet-dreams-and-the-eater-eater-short\/\">Gone Gone<\/a><br \/><em>Abby Short<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/tenebrous-histories-in-citrine-guzman\/\">Tenebrous Histories in Citrine<\/a><br \/><em>Mar\u00eda DeGuzm\u00e1n<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/photography-collection-camp\/\">Photography<\/a><br \/><em>Roger Camp<\/em><\/h3>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Poetry <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/the-calling-and-response-degenova\/\">The Calling and Response<\/a><br \/><em>Albert DeGenova<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a 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href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/southern-suburban-slumber-spilka\/\">Southern Suburban Slumber<\/a><br \/><em>Becca Spilka<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/theres-no-bull-in-back-issues-of-bon-appetit-whiteford-st-clair\/\">There&#8217;s No Bull in Back Issues of <em>Bon Appetit<\/em><\/a><br \/><em>Melissa Whiteford St. Clair<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/chicken-dinner-taylor\/\">Chicken Dinner<\/a><br \/><em>Richard Allen Taylor<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/charleston-tremble\/\">Charleston<\/a><br \/><em>Todd Tremble<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/petigrureview.wordpress.com\/2025\/10\/27\/give-thanks-for-the-gravy-trew\/\">give thanks for the gravy<\/a><br \/><em>Lucinda Trew<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><a 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