FICTION

Jonathan Danielson shows us that it is not really anyone's fault. 

Patrick Kelling teaches us how to deal with broken things.

Question who the good people are with Remy Barnes Klein.

Meet a man with curious occupations in Nathan Lyons' "Watch Out for Elephants."

Sara Palmer's characters vow to "Speak no Evil."

Janelle Zimmerer's characters look at the death of relationship in a whole new way. 


MULTIMEDIA

Cherry Chan provides us with images of caring.

See the many faces of Otha "Vakseen" Davis.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Kevin Callaway falls in "with a squad of Corvettes" and zooms across the American landscape.

Robert Kirvel thinks words are mean because they never mean what we mean them to mean.

Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan teaches us that aging doesn't have to be so lonely.

Ed McCourt has heard a few stories in his lifetime. 

Visit a doctor named God with Amy Minton.

Laugh out loud at Miles Stearns' bumper sticker idea.


POETRY

William Aarnes offers a critique on the strange beauty of relationships.

Explore love and philosophy with Jess  L. Bryant. 

"Sometimes I think we're kidding ourselves when we say we know what we want," Jackson Burgess laments, "or how many times we've been talked down from rooftops by loved ones."

Rees Nielsen captures the earthy poetics of a masculinity caught between two worlds. 

Domenic Scopa cuts right to the seat of a relationship's loss. 

D.N. Simmers offers that sometimes we are just double-parked in "What They Carried." 

You are presently reading the April issue of Gravel. 

It was written by the names you see to the left of this little wall of text, and edited by graduate students of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Cover photo by Cherry Chan.

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