POETRY

Mathias Alpuente follows the call and the response.

Read two fabulous poems by CL Bledsoe.

Discover what home means with Kristin Dashiell.

Chad Hanson invites us into the life of ten year old Garret. 

Read Leanne Hoppe's poem about Communion.

AJ Huffman introduces us to little miss helpful.

Brad Johnson contemplates the emptiness of the ceiling.

Join Jesse Millner for poetic wanderings.

Check out Stephen Okawa's poem about a boy and his mom.

Go on a picnic with Leonard Orr.

Discover the ghosts of dead husbands with Brianna Pike.

Break out of the square with Daniel Ruefman.
 
Clean, unearth, and rub raw with Kristen Roach.

Enjoy jasmine tea with Marilyn Westfall.




FLASH PROSE

Find a roommate with Joshua Allen.

Bowen Astrop teases with what may or may not be true.

Be held hostage by the gravity of life with Tommy Dean.

Keith Frady is hiding something in the closet.

Find grace with David Haight.

Marueen Kingston exposes the strange and ugly world of buzzards.

Take a spin in a stolen car with Kathryn Kulpa.

Brenda Patterson portrays a terrible choice.

Shaun Turner shows us that money can only buy a moment of peace.



BOOK REVIEWS

Meg Eden reviews Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao.

Brian Ellis reviews If I would Leave Myself Behind by Lauren Becker. 

Ania Payne reviews The Room by Jonas Karlsson.

FICTION

Kalisha Buckhanon says yes to love and life.

Christopher Beaumont invites us to climb the tallest tree.

Paul Hansom shares some winter ghosts.

Find out what a Kkamdoongi is with John Oliver Hodges. 

R. F. Grant introduces us to Clarise and Gottfried.

Penn Javdan captures personal experience in a moving tale of last things.

Douglas Penick takes us inside the mind of the prisoner.

Sometimes what you discover is as important as where you are going, or so Jam Ramming tells us.

Discover what can happen on the first of the month with Gillian Ramos.

Andrew Rhodes touches human souls in a story of premonitions.

John Tavares portrays manhood in a literary snapshot.

Emily Claire Utley shows us the brutality of art.

Darren Young moves us with a story of struggle.



MULTIMEDIA 

Allen Forrest shows us life in pen and ink.

Delve under the surface with Janelle Garcia.

Janne Karlsson offers an image of mommy.

Check out Tawanda Rolle's colorful images.

Debunk the artificial refinement of American culture with Jamison Sarteschi.

Fabio Sassi invites us into a common yet unusual world of blue.



CREATIVE NONFICTION

Kayla Rae Candrilli examines animism and domesticity side by side.

Billy P. Gee writes a piece for his father.

Go to camp with Melissa Knox.

Scott Oglesby shows us that sometimes you have to go home to find home.

Samuel Orndorff goes to church.

Laryssa Wirstiuk loves QVC.

You are presently reading the December 2014 issue of Gravel. 

Cover image  "Train, San Jose, Ca." by Allen Forrest.


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