Lake Effect
Volume 19
Spring 2015
Fiction
Mark Brazaitis What to Expect When You Say You’re Expecting
Aimee Parkison Amber Leaves
Shane Stricker The Weight of a Story, Diffuse
Jon Stuart Pearson Of Toucans and Airplanes
Tina May Hall Full of Grace
Gary Fincke What Was Good for You
Eric Severn The Panic Gathered Safely In
Poetry
Jim Daniels The One and Only Adult Halloween Party in the History of Rome Street
Jim Daniels Loss of Color
Jim Daniels Grandpa Rents to Pimp
Iris Jamahl Dunkle What Wears Out or Up After Time
Iris Jamahl Dunkle Swear By It
John Bradley Henry Ford at the Wheat Harvest in a Suit Made of Soy Fiber: Tecumseh, Michigan
Robert Gibb Auctioneering
Shivani Mehta Subversion
Shivani Mehta Sometimes I Want to Tell You
Shivani Mehta Another One About the Birds
Artur Nowaczewski Birds
Artur Nowaczewski Frog
Jane Hoogestraat Alt Country
Margaret Young Rings
Margaret Young Wings
John Sibley Williams Alight
Simon Perchik *
Mitchell Untch Grief’s Desire
Mitchell Untch Fugue
Matthew James Babcock Running in Mullaghmore
Craig Blais from Magnolia Room
Jason Tandon The Retreat
Jason Tandon Early Morning, Spring
Robert Evory Archetype of Knowledge
Robert Evory Archetype of the Human Psyche
Lisa Ampleman Paul and Fran
Rob Stephens Fugue for Sexual Tension, Androgeny, and Wingmen in A Minor
John Wall Barger Barbudo, Jocinero, Bailador, Pocapena, Granadino, Islero, Avispado, Burlero
John Wall Barger Tunnels
John Wall Barger The Fathers of Loretta
Adam Scheffler Waitress
Mark Sanders Anxiety
Elton Glaser Operators Are Standing By to Take Your Call
Michelle Y. Burke Poem at 36,000 Feet
Michelle Y. Burke Trick of the Light
Michelle Y. Burke Flight Path
Jesse Breite Old Laertes
Terry Hermsen Where Does the Dark Go When the Dark Goes Down?
Terry Hermsen A Farewell for Neruda
Al Maginnes The Moon Too Is a Daughter
Al Maginnes Vulture Skull
Al Maginnes The Downward Spiral of Narrative
Al Maginnes The Gospel of Leaving
Doug Ramspeck Of Crows We Dream
Literary Nonfiction
George Choundas Island Grace
Laura Michele Diener The Ash Tree
Jessica Hendry Nelsen The Present
Xu Xi The English of My Story (Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2016)
Megan Thygeson If I Were You, Honey, I’d Run, Not Walk
Corinne Manning The Language of Kudzu
Editors: George Looney
Aimee Pogson
Fiction Editors: Katie O’Neill
Laura Ruppel
Poetry Editor: Elliot Smith
Nonfiction Editors: Becca Blauch
Dani Dicenzo
Contributing Editors: Tom Noyes
Douglas Smith
Assistant Editors
Chikodili Agwuna Kalli Oberlander
Spenser Berry Allison Richmond
Morgan Brandt Angela Roman
Jacqueline Dinsmore Gabrielle Ross
Katerina Giordano Britney Snyder
Taylor Hoover John Vallone
Martha Larkin Meghan Vorisek
Savannah Martin Marcus Werner
Cover Art: Suzanne Proulx-Bavaro
Cover Design: AJ Noyes
Technical Consultants: Richard Krone
Nate Carter
Web Page: Nate Carter