El Portal Literary Journal

El Portal Fall 2025

vol. 84 no. 1

Cover art design by Savannah Hodges

Fiction

TORTILLA  by Mark Hurtubise
Phantom Gulch by Shauna Friesen

Poetry

Le Menu de la vie by Nilsa Mariano
The Chimes by Nilsa Mariano
Weeping Cherry by Nilsa Mariano
Surface by Cecil Sayre
an assertion of sovereignty: email signatures of disabled freelance artists by Ariel Martz-Oberlander
I don’t even ever think of you by Ariel Martz-Oberlander
those big black mosquitoes you get up there in montana, summertimes by August Ryan
usually pleasant odor by August Ryan
A storm before a scorched pendulum by Partha Sarkar

Nonfiction

Person as Place by Lillian Wissler
Uncle Joe (Buffalo and T or C) by Daniel Delehant