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POETRY
Gaby Bedetti has a moonlit visitor Chris Caruso meditates on the symbolic nature of touch Ben Groner III exchanges words like precious gems Ian Hall shares three poems Phil Huffy walks down an old street. Tim Kahl illustrates the importance of whiskers Clyde Kessler has surgery Joey Lew eats black risotto Wheeler Light gets out and shows us BJ Love circles around light and dark Michelle McMillan-Holifield deplores the killing of dolphins Go to a million places with James Miller Leonard Orr visits a Persian restaurant Mike Pantano visits the Blue Moon at lunchtime Drop poinsettias from the Elizabeth Street Bridge with Charles Parsons Jonathan K. Rice explores his backyard haven Joel Scarfe finds there is just enough Stan Sanvel Rubin ponders life Ronnie Sirmans follows a path home. Follow the road to a dust devil with Paige Elizabeth Smith Anastasia Stelse needs December in October Savannah Stewart is shut out of understanding Richard Weiser was born ready for this fight Share a small-town Memorial Day with Gabriel Welsch FLASH FICTION Ron Burch wants you to know just what he's missing Wayne Cresser learns a little something about discipline from the father of history Tommy Dean knew them Thomas Kearnes is living a true Christmas nightmare Sheree La Puma lets the heat go to her head Kathy McMullen rides off into the sunset Bob Raymonda gives us a taste of the future con huevos Michelle Brianna Ropp remembers the redwoods Mir-Yashar Seyedbagheri says it all boils down to love Go anywhere with Mark Wagenaar BOOK REVIEW Cheyenne Marco reviews Jennifer Case's Sawbill: A Search for Place Charles Rammelkamp reviews Anne Champion's The Good Girl is Always a Ghost John Yohe reviews Anne Waldman's Trickster Feminism |
FICTION
Simon Barker leaves the front door open Terena Elizabeth Bell sticks around for the second coming Brenda Birenbaum buys a Christmas present for the birds Samuel Cole contemplates love by the alphabet Tim Drugan-Eppich can't find his way Sarah Jansen goes to the circus. Prisha Mehta tells of Lillian and guilt Marie Schutt waivers about home Joel Streicker delivers wisdom in a story Alex Witonsky has a bomb day Lynn Wohlwend writes a new book MULTIMEDIA Deborah Kennedy wages war with words Kristine Steddum finds beauty in plants Ryland Trahan questions existence CREATIVE NONFICTION Aubri Adkins makes the exchange of a lifetime Brianna Albers ponders TV shows Les Bohem wants to look you in the eye when he speaks to you Maddie Carey meets the patron saint of the Hurricane Christina Kapp lives in a house with blue shutters Jaime Mathis sees a line across the stars Melanie McCabe is haunted by the house that built her FLASH CREATIVE NONFICTION Célèste Fohl instructs on knitting Samuel Fox offers two essays Adam Hofbauer writes notes of the near future. Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell breaks down debridement Jim Ross goes dumpster diving in paradise Kat Saunders writes of a cursed stone |
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