TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Jennifer Yeatts … Editor’s Note

Anne-Marie Oomen … A Voice of Place: Happy Birthday Dunes Review

Alyssa Jewell … I Dream of Two Old Women Soaking in the Bathtub of My Childhood Home

Alyssa Jewell … Cleft

Nicco Pandolfi … Summer, Sung in Winter

Peter Grandbois … Sometimes I Think I’ll Never Leave

Nicco Pandolfi … More Than We Can Ever Learn from Books

Patricia Clark … Cottage at the Lake: Two Views

Jeff Ewing … Stier

Jeff Ewing … Rein

Ken White … Legal and Binding

William Bonfiglio … To Pieces

Holly Wren Spaulding … We Fell

Ron Riekki … The Smell When You Walk Into the Psych Ward of the Prison

Ron Riekki … The Seconds When I Left the Counseling Office and Felt the PTSD Might Be Leaving This Time Forever

Natalie Solmer … And Now I’m Reading Revelation at 4 AM

Holly Wren Spaulding … Burning Dream

Asnia Asim … Gul Bano

Jake Bauer … Six Inches Away

Susan Blackwell Ramsey … Solace

Michael Laughlan … Late Storm

Patricia Clark … Shadow of the Lightning-Struck Tree

Brian Czyzyk … Cooper of Luce County

Becca Lamarre … Your Arm’s a Vine

Kevin Rabas … Pool, Ring

Peter Grandbois … And is This Mine

Lisa Wamsley … Fly

Anastasia Townsend … Our One Day’s Mission

Kirk Westphal … Beneath a Bridge

Cat Thompson Wyatt … BJ Are You There?

Teresa Scollon … After the Storm

Teresa Scollon … Thank You This and Thank You That

Jake Bauer … Side of House, Ivy

Asnia Asim … Versectomy

Kaylie Anne Johnson … My Heart is a Kitchen Timer

Patricia Clark … My Aberglaube

Natalie Solmer … Autobiography

Kyle Flak … Dawn Boat

Buzz Alexander … Staunch Michigan Trees

Matthew LaFreniere … To Fathers

Alexander Payne Morgan … Tablecloth

Stefen Holtrey … Quickening

Kathleen McGookey … Postcard from the Giant Redwood Forest

Kathleen McGookey … Postcard from the Embassy Club

Paula Stacey … Sisters at Breakfast on the First Day After

Sophia Galifianakis … My Mother Mourns

Laura Bernstein-Machlay … 8 Crashes, 1 Thud

Jeffrey Alfier … Detroit Summer

Don Russ … A Walk to the Square

Alice Pettway … On the Plaza

Robb Astor … How I Escaped the Vagaries of Time and Managed to Disappear from the World

D. R. James … Thanks, Frank

Stefen Holtrey … Advice

Don Russ … Trapped

Kirk Westphal … Footprints in December

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