Editors’ Note

 

FEATURES

Interview with Kazim Ali

Interview with Rachel Yoder

 

GROWING UP 

Chuka Susan Chesney Ι Marilyn’s Pose

 Emily Bartholet Ι Reenacting the Edda

 Kristen Poitras Ι Everyone Has Sad Stories

Peggy Schimmelman Ι Angel Pills 

Lora Rivera Ι Mudbelly

Kathryn Spratt Ι Self-Conscious

 Matthew Brennan Ι Natural Science

Bayley Van Ι Valencia Rain

 Marie Ungar Ι How Wrinkles Were Invented

 W.E. Pasquini Ι Fleeting

Chris Evans Ι Into the Night

Nicole Melchionda Ι The Rainbow Faucet

Samara Golabuk Ι Once

 Kevin Charles Ι Boot Camp for Boys

 Allen Forrest Ι Annie and Her Two Sons

Erin Jin Mei O’Malley Ι How Catholic School Was Invented

 Dmitry Borschch Ι Two Pieces

Brian Kirchner Ι Harvest Moon

 

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POETRY 

Kersten Christianson Ι Inventory

Charles Kell Ι Words from the Front

Jim Richards Ι Well, Love, I’m Walking

Kevin Casey Ι Quartz Hunting

 

FICTION 

Robert Fromberg Ι Hand

Eleni Chelioti Ι Jump

Rebecca Blauch Ι What Monsters Take and What They Leave Behind

 

NON-FICTION 

Mehar Haleem Ι Brinjals

 

GRAPHIC FICTION

S.D. Martin Ι [XX] LUME

Michelle Wosinski Ι The Watchers

 

PHOTOGRAPHY 

William Crawford Ι Heavy Lighting on the Bowery, NYC

Betsy Jennifer Ι Bedewed

 

VISUAL ART

Sally Deskins Ι Two Pieces