CONTENTS
Poetry
STACY MARIE MILLER The tumor in my uncle’s brain sings a lullaby in the key of Kathy Bates in Misery
DESTINY O. BIRDSONG Booby Trap; Permissions
ZACHARY LUNDGREN The Skyline Is Two Gazes Long
KATIE KEMPLE Million Dollar Poem; Cigerette love poem
ADRIANA BELTRANO Plaster Crucifix Sonnet; The Substance
ARTHUR MCMASTER Two People Sharing a Small Umbrella
ISMAIL YUSUF OLUMOH a poem that cajoles my mother into a smoke as an invaded country
KELLY R. SAMUELS Turning Toward a Large Body of Water as Implicit Memory
DANIEL BRENNAN The Memory Game; Insomnia Season
JENNIFER VEECH Terminal Ballistics
ALEXANDER LAZARUS WOLFF Anorexia Nervosa; The Second Noble Truth
BETH DULIN All the Lightning You Carry
DUSTIN BROOKSHIRE & BETH GYLYS Body’s Wish Villanelle
MARY ROBBINS Her Spirit Lingered in JCPenney
ALEX MOERSEN To be an old dog who loves figs
LAUREN SWIFT continuation
CHRISTOPHER ANKNEY The Good Guys
WILLIAM L. RAMSEY Late Night Ramble 1984
JILL MICHELLE My Therapist Tells Me; The Truth is Made Of
DANIEL LASSELL The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child
EMMA BOLDEN Clickbait
MEGHAN MIRAGLIA All My Love; Reproduction
JOSH MAHLER Elegy for a Friendship
MICHAEL JULIANI On the Need for Validation
Fiction
E.R. RAMZIPOOR Unidentified
CHRISTOPHER CHILTON First in Flight
MARCIE ALEXANDER Christmas Eve
JESSICA LEE RICHARDSON Glossarium
HARRIS QUINN The Habit of Losing
SHANIA SIU Gaakzaipou
K.C. VANCE Now That Will is Gone
KINDALL FREDRICKS Black Hare
KATIE WARD Cruelty Free
PETER KESSLER Beach Day
Creative Nonfiction
MELISSA REDDISH The Zeitgeist of a Sentence
Book Reviews
SARAH BLACKMAN Witness to Their Passage: Shobha Rao’s Indian Country
HARRIS QUINN What a Brother Knows: A Review of Dean Marshall Tuck’s Twinless Twin
JOSEPH BATES The Family Found: A Review of Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills
