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Table of Contents — Issue 4
    Creative Nonfiction
  • Katie Fallon — Lost
  • Gail Folkins — Five Minutes More
  • Holly Leigh — Solitude
  • Jill Patterson — Fear Is a Road It’s Not Safe to Travel
  • William S. Sandlin — Evacuation
  • Jillian Schedneck — Invisible Town


  • Fiction
  • John Allen — Layla's Rhino
  • Fernando Benavidez — The Hanging at Palmito Hill, 1908
  • Evan Bruno — Iris
  • Kay Calkins — Sunday
  • Bryn Chancellor — The New Girl
  • Ann Claycomb — Distance Driving
  • Jenny Erpenbeck — Excerpt from Wöterbuch and Excerpt from The Book of Words (translated from German by Susan Bernofsky)
  • Aaron Hellem — Playing Through
  • Stephen Graham Jones — The Mourners and Between
  • Ronald H.Lands — The Rebellion of Katie Lane
  • Christiana Langenberg — Lost Wax
  • Stephen Murabito — The Man Without Any Sins
  • John Nordhaus — The Way Things Happen
  • Alan Rossi — Blacktail
  • Lucas Southworth — The Way it Is


  • Interview
  • With Dennis Covington


  • Poetry
  • Katherine Abbott  — Build Up, For Sung, and March Equinox
  • Lisa Alexander Baron — An Entire Day to Write
  • SamBell — Behind Us, the Full Neighborhood and The Lake
  • Louis Daniel Brodsky — Crocuses
  • Lindsay Coleman — Stir and When I Grow Up… (An Anthem)
  • Jim Coppoc — The Best Minds, We Gather Sometimes in Memory, We Are Here, There is a Reliquary, I Have Written This Poem Before, I Loved Her, This is Later, and Holy, It Begins
  • Dennis Doherty — Day Lily
  • Marc Douglass-Smith — Fish Fall
  • Joan Gelfand — Music Dream 14: Day Dream
  • Lara Gularte — Leaves
  • Diane Hueter — Nocturne
  • Janet R.Kirchmeier — Taking Flight
  • Sandra Kohler — Navigation
  • Tracy Koretsky — Before Others Knew
  • Alex Lemon — After Leaving Navajo New Mexico, Hemophilia, and While We Fought My Mother Drifted in and Out of What Was Next While Outside Some Boys Pissed On the Swings
  • Robin Merrill — Happy Halloween
  • Romy Shinn Piccolella — Monuments
  • Doug Ramspeck — Ballad for a Fifteen-Year-Old and Room, with Bed
  • Jack Romig — A Walk on the Morning of My Father’s Death and Small Game Season
  • Russell Rowland — Easter Weekend and New Year’s Eve Fireworks
  • Aaron Rudolph — A New Mexican Cuento
  • Chuck Rybak — Tongue and Groove
  • Marc Thompson — dacotah
  • Diane Tucker — The Fourth Direction
  • Lee Voss — Collars in the Closet, Fleur de Lis, and Meditation


  • Young Adult Fiction
  • Joshua Moehling — Bigfoot
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