Spring 2013
Volume 17
Contents
Fiction
Tara Laskowski Happy and Humpy
Randall Brown What We Have Here
Tom Lorenz Zanzibar
Brandon Davis Jennings Smells of Couch
Marc Berley Rust
D.J. Thielke The Boy Named Daze
J.T. Ledbetter Under the Chicago River
Brian Buckbee Hungry Baby
Alberto Alvaro Butter, Oranges, and Pink Cotton Candy
Poetry
Harry Humes Whales Over the Port Clinton Fire Tower
Harry Humes The Map to the Boblinks
Ronald Wallace Libera Me, Domine
David Shumate An Inventory of Moons
David Shumate My Buddhist Lessons
Philip Dacey Portrait of Poet as Abandoned Child
Mike Wright Watching the Trestle
Mike Wright Like an Animal
Don Russ Naming Things
Sophia Orr Love Poem
Dave Nielsen The End of the Beginning
Daniel Bourne Tea Ceremony
Jeffrey Alfier Campomarino, Where the Sea Begins
Jeffrey Alfier Ode to Structural Metal
Doug Ramspeck Confessions of Winter
Doug Ramspeck Mercy
William Virgil Davis Inscriptions
Ken Meisel Sister Kathleen Ann
John Bradley At the Future of War Emporium
John Bradley Sister Blandina and the Kingdom of the Maggot
Frank Paino Swallow
Brian Simoneau Spring Comes to Lowell
Brian Simoneau Poem with the Glimmer of Ice in a Tree
Chris Souza Moths
Chris Souza Slipstitch
Laurie Blauner The Taxidermist
Brian Ownbey Where Touching Leads Us
Brian Ownbey Communion
Amorak Huey The Letter X Imagines His Life as a One-Night Stand with an Aging Country & Western Singer
Andy Roberts The Past in a Minor Key
Andy Roberts How I Get Through the Winter
Max Schleicher Hunger Weather
Max Schleicher January Coyote
Literary Nonfiction
Teresa Barnett Afterlives
Michelle Seaton The Jet Set
Chad Hanson The Choreography of Paint Rock Creek
Contributors’ Notes
Editors: George Looney, Aimee Pogson
Fiction Editors: Ethan Brightbill, Megan Sipos
Poetry Editor: Dani Dicenzo
Nonfiction Editor: Eric Botts
Contributing Editors: Tom Noyes, Douglas Smith
Assistant Editors: Megan Abramczyk, Kyle Kerr, Krista Banks, Elisa Kownacki, Sara Coe, Michael Krahe,
Jonathan Cortez, Will Lutton, Courtney Elliot, Angela Mitcheltree, Lauren Estep, Kalli Oberlander, John Hadlock,
Katie O’Neill, Julie Johnson, Laura Ruppel, Toby Keller
Cover Artist: Suzanne Proulx
Cover Design: AJ Noyes
Technical Consultant: Diane Nowacinski
Web Page: Beverly DiNicola
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