Year: 2017

Contents

Fiction

Michael Parker • Stragglers ……………………………………………………….. 7
Tobey Ward • The Guest Room ………………………………………………… 16
Kenny Marotta • Tomb Visits …………………………………………………. 29
Brock Clarke • Smart Shopper • Time Travel ……………………………. 51
Jon Sealy • Honk If I’m Paying Your Mortgage ………………………….. 55
Jade Wallace • Cryptid …………………………………………………………….. 70
Leslie Pietrzyk • The Door of No Return …………………………………….74
Eugene Radice • The Oil of Science ………………………………………….. 80

Poetry

John Lee Clark • Nicholas Saundersson, 1682–1739 …………………… 5
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
• Questionnaire for Two Pussies …………………………………………….. 10
Maya Marshall • Poem about The Time… • Family Photo …………. 14
Robin Richstone • Switched-Baby Syndrome ……………………………. 26
John Sibley Williams • Fallow as That • Field Confessional ………. 27
David Colodney • Eleven Days ………………………………………………… 50
Gabrielle Brant Freeman • Every Western ………………………………… 53
Daye Phillippo • Great Crested Flycatcher ………………………………… 69
Raymond Luczak • Lunafly ……………………………………………………… 72
James B. Nicola • She was So Good …………………………………………… 73
Emily K. Michael • Natural Compliance • Mint ………………………… 78
Gaylord Brewer • A Little Poem to Life …………………………………….. 99
Rick Mulkey • A Scatalogical Scat ………………………………………….. 101

Essays
Skip Eisiminger • “It’s Loading, Gramps”: Waiting ………………. 103
Delia Steverson • Madness, Melancholia, and Suicide in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees …………………………………………… 108
Jeffrey Meyers • Fire and Ice: James Dickey’s To the White Sea… 124
Mary A. Gervin • Carson McCullers’ Remembrance of Things Past: Illumination and Night Glare as Memoir …………………………..134
Book Reviews
Hallman Bell Bryant • Victoria’s Secret …………………………………… 145
Mark Powell • Ron Rash’s World of Dark Beauty……………………….156
Gary Kerley • “Feed Him Another Feast of Recognition”: The Legacy of Pat Conroy ……………………………………………………. 159
Erin Gale • Lives on the Boundary …………………………………………. 166
Mike Pulley • Poetry and Female Survival ……………………………… 172
Amy Borders • A Shadow of One’s Former Self ……………………….. 176
David Tillinghast • Slippery Words…………………………………………. 181
Contributors …………………………………………………………………….185

CONTENTS
Fiction
Matthew Vollmer • Souvenirs ……………………………………. 5
Laura Gabel-Hartman • Seals ………………………………………………….. 22
Duncan Greenlaw • The Lines …………………………………………………. 39
Anna Blake Keeley • Turn Back ……………………………………………….. 54
Gary Fincke • Slippery Rock …………………………………………………….. 64

Poetry
Meg Day • Big Sky Domestic • If You’re Staying, I’ll Stay Too …. 87
John Timothy Robinson • Blackbirds ………………………………………. 89
Tom Chandler • My Father’s Dead Body ………………………………….. 90
Cameron Webster • The Comet Kohoutek ………………………………… 91
Jennifer Newhouse • Fable ………………………………………………………. 93
Ruth Holzer • Failure to Thrive ………………………………………………… 94
Christopher Munde • Black Market Light ………………………………… 95
Andrea Syzdek • 59 Dollar Limo ……………………………………………… 97
Holly Day • Reflecting on the Night ………………………………………….. 98
Margaret Del Guercio • Workshopping …………………………………….. 99
Susan Harlan • My First Name ………………………………………………. 101

Essays
Terry W. Thompson • “Hurst of Hurstcote”: Edith Nesbit’s Appropriation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” ………………….. 103
Chris Carbaugh • Honest Abe, Horticulture, and Candy …………. 118
Book Reviews
Susan Laughter Meyers • As If We Were Here Together ………….. 125
Lee Morrissey • The Emerging Atlantic Basin: Three Transatlantic Titles ……………………………………………………………………………….. 131
Roberta Harold • The Greatest Irish Writer You’ve Never
Heard Of …………………………………………………………………… 137
Bill Koon • Seeing Deeply Into the Familiar ……………………………. 146
Kelsey Hosti Chandler • Guilt, Growth, and Girl Power: Reflections on an Irish-Italian Catholic Adolescence …………………………… 151
Cameron Bushnell • Citizen-at-Large ……………………………………. 155
Amy Borders • The Reward of Unaccountable Ambiguities ……… 158
Joseph Millichap • Agee Recollected ……………………………………….. 164
Sarah Cooper • Collaborative Poetry: Bringing It, Together……… 167
Alex Kudera • Mama, Where’s Daddy? …………………………………. 170
Mary Beth Thomas • Through the Stained Glass …………………….. 174
Jean-Mark Sens • An Unfinished Journey from Money, Mississippi………………………………………………………………….. 176
Contributors………………………………………………………………….. 181