Featured Selections
‘How to End a Life’ by Alisha Casey
‘Your Hands are an Indigo City’ by Sean Thomas Dougherty
‘Happy Childhood’ by Wade Bentley
‘Cento Sonnet for a Violin Master Class’ by Philip Dacey
‘An Auden Lecture in the Age of Situation Ethics’ by Terry Savoie
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Staff Members
FICTION: The Ferris-Wheel Sonata – Samuel Simas Spare Change – Jeff Fleischer Too Nice to Drop – John Gifford Letting Loose the Reins – Marlene Olin Reindeer Games at the Coffee Bar – JC Reilly How to End a Life – Alisha Casey Break – Andrea Marcusa Connection – Shannon Cothran CREATIVE NONFICTION: Where Waters Entwine – Orman Day POETRY: Your Hands Are an Indigo City – Sean Thomas Dougherty Stolen Clothes – Mark Taksa Turner’s Snowstorm – Charles L. Calia College Roommates, 1978 – Julia Meylor Simpson The decorators have left for good – Fiona Sinclair Rite of Passage – Kelly Talbot Chalok Ban Kao – Jota Boombaba Long Hair Blown – Diane Webster Incomplete Footprint – Sally Houtman Kooser Groupies – Ed Werstein cigarette liar cigarette lie – Michael Casey |
Happy Childhood – Wade Bentley Cento Sonnet for a Violin Master Class – Philip Dacey Mirage – Carl Palmer Trial Separation – Adrian Potter Candy Crush on Election Day in Arkansas – Cassi Lapp As Her Children Debate Godzilla’s Gender – Glen Armstrong On Comfort and Cowardice – Elton Glaser An Auden Lecture in the Age of Situation Ethics – Terry Savoie Poem Mixed in the Key of B Flat – Sean Thomas Dougherty ARTWORK: Jenny Window – Carl Scharwath (front cover) Open House – Kathleen Gunton (back cover) Mississippi Migration – Brittany Vogt Steps & Stones – Kathleen Gunton Untitled – Emily Ziegler Old Blue – Brittany Vogt Please & Thank You – Kathleen Gunton Canton’s Edge – Chris Ammon Printopus – Brittany Vogt Flying Blind – Brittany Vogt Squidy 1 – Alyssa Hensen |