CONTENTS
Poetry
ERIKA ECKART Reaper; Into the Woods; On contingency plans when one cannot release one’s young into the wild
SHARON KENNEDY-NOLLE Bad Still Life With Bob Ross; Kopack and KFC
CARSON ELLIOT Murfreesboro: Redux
STELLA WONG sonnet for pan jinlian
G.C. WALDREP Wilderness of Causes
ENEIDA ALCALDE Daughter’s Grief; Ring of Fire
PROSPER C. ÌFÉÁNYÍ The Last Image of Mercy
GRACE EZRA More Than Ever
ROSS WHITE Ode to the Fabulously Wealthy
ALLISON FIELD BELL You Burn Me
SARA BURGE Luck
JO BEAR Family Cross-Section: Mother; Unwilded
WAYNE CHAPMAN The Butterfly Garden
DANIELLE SHORR Ode to the Walmart Claw Machines
STEFANIE KIRBY Coronary; Traffic
BERNADETTE GEYER Explaing Cremation to Our Daughter at the Dinner Table
JOSEPH BYRD Haunting
LANA SPENDL Through the Window
COLLIN KELLEY Ev’ry time we say goodbye
ALEX LEE Lament for the Doe
EBEB E.B. BEIN Mother’s Day
SAM SZANTO The Spider and the Fly
STEVE DENEHAN Dressed to Go Out
KAISA ULLSVIK MILLER Last Summer
Fiction
ERIK HARPER KLASS The Phenomenology of Leaving
PRACHI KAMBLE The Divers
MAURICE IRVIN Ryan Number Three
BENJAMIN MYERS Wakefield
CYNTHIA NOONEY Sterling Recruit
RYAN LIVINGSTON Mr. Gorski’s Science Club
MATT CASHION Reunions, Atrocious Manners, the Atlanta Airport
MANDIRA PATTNAIK All My Old and New Selves
SUZANNE MANIZZA ROSZAK First Night at Fern’s Spectacular Twenty-Four-Hour Diner
A.M. YANG Something Special
Creative Nonfiction
ANNA B. MOORE You Will Never Be Happy Again, 1986
MARY GRIMM Coming Back from the Dark
