Spring 2012
Volume 16
CONTENTS
Fiction
Jeffrey Johnson The Transfiguration of Mauricio
J.T. Ledbetter Apes
Morris Collins Two Characters and a Cassowary
Joe Woodward Viola!
Michael Czyzniejewski The Frankenstein Meets the Mummy
Teresa Milbrodt Small Spaces
Aimee Parkison Paints and Papers
Erin Pringle-Toungate Winter’s Wooden Sparrows
Poetry
Lisa Ampleman Murmuration
Lawrence Raab Devotion
Al Maginnes Self-Portrait in the Amnesia of Fire
Jennifer Habel Aubade 3
Jay Hopler Elegy for the Living
Rosa Alice Branco Still-Life, Still
Rosa Alice Branco Domestic Towel
Rosa Alice Branco Fables of the Hibiscus
Noel Conneely Long Way Around
Lavonne Adams On the Banks of the San Antonio River
Ken Meisel My Fingers Move Across the Typewriter Keys in an Effort to Find You
Sergio Badilla My Father’s Ocean and the Undines
Tara Bray Winter Truce
Russell Evatt Shoreward
Kathleen Kirk Finally the Rain
Doug Ramspeck To the Place of Feathers
Eric Nelson A Small Hole
Lara Gularte Transcending My Daylight Body
Jose A. Rodriguez From the Mottled Light
Erica Goss Night Court
Erica Goss In Front of the Reichstag
William Notter Harvesters
William Notter Wondering About Cremation
Joan Colby Heat
Kimberly Johnson Requiem
Mekeel McBride That Time We Went to the Moon
Mekeel McBride Everyday Matter
Sally Molini No Update
Alec Hershman Gratitude
Literary Nonfiction
Curtis Smith A Personal Evolution of Prayer
Nancy Nordenson Prelude
Christine Hope Starr This Part of the Sea
Adriana Paramo A Commie a la Columbiana
Gary Fincke More Unique
Editors: George Looney and Aimee Pogson
Fiction Editors: Amanda Dziubkowski, Craig Sanders, Jessica Storm
Poetry Editor: Elliot Smith
Nonfiction Editor: Eric Botts
Contributing Editors: Tom Noyes and Douglas Smith
Assistant Editors: Megan Abramczyk, Krista Banks, Claire Bevevino, Ethan Brightbill, Megan Collins, Daniell Dicenzo, Antonia Diehl,
Courtney Elliot, Lauren Estep, Will Lutton, Laura Ruppel, Daniel J. Shoemaker, Kimberly Sniezek, Britney Snyder, Kathryn Warner
Cover Artist: AJ Noyes
Cover Design: AJ Noyes
Technical Consultant: Diane Nowacinski
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