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POETRY

Ace Boggess defies the command to shut up.

Matt Carmichael shows us where patterns and experience connect.

Kelly DuMar shows us creation can be the most fragile of tasks.

Discover where logic breaks down with Daniel Sundhal.

D.S. West writes of grapes and seduction.

 
FICTION

Margaret Flannery explores the spaces between dreams and reality, truth and imagination.

Join John and Walt in the mountains in this short story by M. E. Kane.

Brandon Madden teaches us the wisdom of fatherhood from the most unlikely of sources.

Step into a dark place in an unspecified era with Max Orkis.

Take a canoe trip with J.F. Newman.

Paul Pekin excites with an exotic  tale featuring gypsies, curses, and WWII.

Jared Yates Sexton invites us to room thirty-two of the Liberty Inn.






MULTIMEDIA 

Explore the art of constellations with Vivian Calderon Bogoslavskly.

Lis Anna-Langston wows us with her gorgeous photography.

The World Keeps Spinning  for Marjorie Matthews.

Miller Murray offers is a bit of jazz in charcoal and paper.





CREATIVE NONFICTION

Dileep Jhaveri shares the power that one life can hold.

Step into the eye of the storm with Jackie Davis Martin.

Patricia Merlino introduces us to Charles "Chuck" Boone

Read Etan Nechin's story of two Abigails.

Patty Somlo invites us to a Chinese Banquet.

Robert Stout shows us how joy prevails.

Melissa Wiley reveals the world through the eyes of a perceptive woman.








FLASH PROSE

John Jeremiah offers a misguided view of romance.

Wesley Dunning twists a question mark out of an ordinary moment.

Jessica Hahn shows how to be your own captain.


You are presently reading the October 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  "Space Age" from  Vivian Calderon Bogoslavsky



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