Issue 4 Table of Contents

Creative Nonfiction

  • Katie Fallon — Lost

  • Gail Folkins — Five Minutes More

  • Holly Leigh — Solitude

  • Jill Patterson — Fear Is a Road It’s Not Safe to Travel

  • William S. Sandlin — Evacuation

  • Jillian Schedneck — Invisible Town

Fiction

  • John Allen — Layla's Rhino

  • Fernando Benavidez — The Hanging at Palmito Hill, 1908

  • Evan Bruno — Iris

  • Kay Calkins — Sunday

  • Bryn Chancellor — The New Girl

  • Ann Claycomb — Distance Driving

  • Jenny Erpenbeck — Excerpt from Wöterbuch and Excerpt from The Book of Words (translated from German by Susan Bernofsky)

  • Aaron Hellem — Playing Through

  • Stephen Graham Jones — The Mourners and Between

  • Ronald H.Lands — The Rebellion of Katie Lane

  • Christiana Langenberg — Lost Wax

  • Stephen Murabito — The Man Without Any Sins

  • John Nordhaus — The Way Things Happen

  • Alan Rossi — Blacktail

  • Lucas Southworth — The Way it Is

Interview

  • With Dennis Covington

Poetry

  • Katherine Abbott  — Build Up, For Sung, and March Equinox

  • Lisa Alexander Baron — An Entire Day to Write

  • SamBell — Behind Us, the Full Neighborhood and The Lake

  • Louis Daniel Brodsky — Crocuses

  • Lindsay Coleman — Stir and When I Grow Up… (An Anthem)

  • Jim Coppoc — The Best Minds, We Gather Sometimes in Memory, We Are Here, There is a Reliquary, I Have Written This Poem Before, I Loved Her, This is Later, and Holy, It Begins

  • Dennis Doherty — Day Lily

  • Marc Douglass-Smith — Fish Fall

  • Joan Gelfand — Music Dream 14: Day Dream

  • Lara Gularte — Leaves

  • Diane Hueter — Nocturne

  • Janet R.Kirchmeier — Taking Flight

  • Sandra Kohler — Navigation

  • Tracy Koretsky — Before Others Knew

  • Alex Lemon — After Leaving Navajo New Mexico, Hemophilia, and While We Fought My Mother Drifted in and Out of What Was Next While Outside Some Boys Pissed On the Swings

  • Robin Merrill — Happy Halloween

  • Romy Shinn Piccolella — Monuments

  • Doug Ramspeck — Ballad for a Fifteen-Year-Old and Room, with Bed

  • Jack Romig — A Walk on the Morning of My Father’s Death and Small Game Season

  • Russell Rowland — Easter Weekend and New Year’s Eve Fireworks

  • Aaron Rudolph — A New Mexican Cuento

  • Chuck Rybak — Tongue and Groove

  • Marc Thompson — dacotah

  • Diane Tucker — The Fourth Direction

  • Lee Voss — Collars in the Closet, Fleur de Lis, and Meditation

Young Adult Fiction

  • Joshua Moehling — Bigfoot