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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
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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
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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
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​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
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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. 
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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
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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
 




You are presently reading the 
December 2018 issue of Gravel. 



This magazine is produced by the MFA program
in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello editorial staff.

Cover image by Tammara Hoyt



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