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
