Lake Effect
Volume 26
Spring 2022
Fiction
- Tina May Hall, The Extinction Museum: Exhibit #114 (Bowl of Ossified Juniper Berries)
- Tina May Hall, Extinction Museum: Exhibit #249 (Magicicada Tredecula Pinned to Velvet, Behind Glass)
- Tina May Hall, Extinction Museum: Exhibit #46 (Specimen Jars Containing Human Organs)
- W. T. Paterson, The Teeny-Tiny Scotsman Who Lives on my Dresser
- Stuart Dybek, A Secret
- Pamela Painter, Lost at Sea
- Abby Frucht, Bird Church
Poetry
- Rick Bursky, The Death-Defying Spiritual
- Rick Bursky, The All Spiritual
- Olivia M. Sokolowski, A Wind Too Good to Be the Wind I Know
- Olivia M. Sokolowski, Pont des Arts
- Lance Larsen, In My Next Life I’ll Return as a Crow
- Lance Larsen, Just Say Some Things about the Moon
- Lance Larsen, Self-Portrait with the State of Idaho Receding in My Rear-view Mirror
- Jennifer Bullis, Self-Portrait as Lilith, to Eve
- Anthony Borruso, This Is the Big One!
- Hollie Dugas, Once, I Fell in Love with a Paleontologist
- Lauren Camp, Lessons from a Temporary North
- William Fargason, Ode to the Pillars of the Overpass Bridge
- Kim Garcia, The Quiet Mornings
- Kim Garcia, We Call These Dancing Waves
- Marie Ungar, Hypochondria
- Marie Ungar, I Am Always Getting Myself into Such Fixes
- Mary Birnbaum, The Buddha for All Occasions
- Wendy Guerra, Salt
- Michael Dechane, Ladyfish
- Lola Haskins, Self-Portrait as North Yorkshire
- Danie Shokoohi, Confessions of the Sin-Eater
- Danie Shokoohi, Scrimshaw
- Cristi Donoso, Growing
- Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Ruminate
- Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Intrusive
- Sara Backer, My Addiction to Impressionist Snowscapes
- Todd Copeland, Apologia for Giving a Damn
- Christen Kauffman, To See a Satellite and Think God
- Nicholas Yingling, Against Life Expectancy
- Matthew Tuckner, On Garbage
- Christopher Buckley, Voyages
- Nancy Eimers, For a Poet-Teacher, in Memory
- Nancy Eimers, Studies of Flight
- John Sibley Williams, Scarecrow
- Karen Craigo, Think of an Image from Memory
- Karina Borowicz, Walking at Midnight
- Karina Borowicz, Victory Day
- Ken Meisel, The Angel of the I Is Elsewhere, Speaks Straight Dope to Me
Literary Nonfiction
- Jen Ashburn, A Thursday Afternoon During the Pandemic
- Jen Ashburn, We Do So Wish
- Sonja Flancher, Alone and Homesick on an Indian Passenger Train
- Laurie Blauner, Another Night of Dark Berries and Foxes
- Barbara Hass, The Logo of Gyrsuf
- Lauren Osborn, Sunburn