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Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Aaron Gilbreath
• Cupid Carries a Switch
Margery Kreitman
• Taxi!
Louise Wareham Leonard
• Ashes
William Minor
• Cheese
• A Blessing
Jordan Okumura
• Descent
Poetry
Sherman Alexie
• The Oral Tradition
D.N. Baldwin
• Night of the Savior
Jan Ball
• cross-dressers in spring clothing
Kate Braverman
• Fox and Camouflage Russian Hill Women
Traci Brimhall
• Chastity Belt Lesson
Emily Brungo
• Shockoe Bottom (aka Hungover . . .
Claudia Burbank
• Morris, New Jersey, 1967
Linda E. Cable
• Fishing for Dead Poets
Chezia Thompson Cager
• Ask Your Mama I
• Ask Your Mama II
• A Country Girl’s Recipe. . .
Mary Ann Campbell
• Melissa
• Joe
Sean Carman
• On Being Trapped in a Grain Elevator . . .
Sandra M. Castillo
• LSD and Kyle McLachlan
Patrick Chapman
• Oubliette
Alex Cigale
• The Rabid Loves of the Americans
Heather Davis
• From the American People
Alex Dimitrov
• Saint Sebastian After the Arrows
George Drew
• CSI Gil Grissom in the Kingdom of the Dead
Moira Egan
• Laurus nobilis
Bridget Gage-Dixon
• The Beekeeper’s Daughter
Shelley Grabel
• The Reluctant Tomboy
Anne Wilson Gregory
• Warning the Hunter
Robert Gregory
• Elegy in Advance
Harry Griswold
• In Churchport
Susan Gubernat
• Sibyl
• JFK
Jenny Hanning
• Trench
Johnny Hartner
• Love’s Labor’s Lost at Kennywood
• Park
Mary Crockett Hill
• Toaster Genesis
Brad Johnson
• Coffee Shop Waste Sheet (Or: Very Bored Barista)
Jason Jones
• Gunslinger
Miriam Jones
• Party Down on the Island
Richard Jones
• Walking in a Cemetery Re: Incarnation…
Mike Jurkovic
• Mongrel
Christina Kallery
•Government Cheese
Linda King
• A River Makes Its Own Way
Mary Jean Kledzik
• Alchemy
Steve Kowit
• Some Skunks
• 7th Grade
Jonas Kyle-Sidell
• Lightning, some
Brian E. Langston
• Building a Better Weapon
Lyn Lifshin
• On the Metro
• Father Throws 4 Children Off a Bridge
• When I Found the Words Pressed into Themselves
• She Said Possessed
• First Snow, January 17
Reb Livingston
• Diminished Prophecy 6:3
Ann Malaspina
• Disappear
Sally Wen Mao
• Love Pear
Cathy McArthur
• Lipsticks
Greg McBride
• At the Gay-Pride Parade
Margaret McCarthy
• Slut
• America, Light of the World
Melissa Monroe
• Pinocchio on Wishes
Peter Moore
• Airborne Leaflet Propaganda
Language by Immersion
Kathi Morrison-Taylor
• Hypothesis
Elisabeth Murawski
• A Type of Sad
Barbra Nightingale
• Ahab’s Second Wife
Kevin Oberlin
• Meeting for Drinks at the Bar…
Claudia Putnam
• On reading the Bible backwards
Alan C. Reese
• This Just In
Amanda Reynolds
• Kurt Vonnegut Flunked Thermodynamics
Diane Schenker
• Poem with No Pants On
Mather Schneider
• Midnight in the Beer Garden of Good and Evil
Peter Schwartz
• Naked Woman/Naked Man
Eric Paul Shaffer
• Picnic in the Year Zero
J. D. Smith
• Dachshunds of Buenos Aires
Paul Sohar
• War Bread
D. E. Steward
• The Line
Bianca Stewart
• And
Julie Marie Wade
• Hester Prynne . . .
• Morton’s Girl
Ronald Wallace
• Dress Right Dress
Ian Williams
• West of Boston
A.D. Winans
• 71 Going on 72
• Poem For Allen Ginsberg
Corey Zeller
• The Background Singers . . .
Fiction
Art
Michelle Brafman
• Washing the Dead
Randall Brown
• Hiding Nothing
Brian Cooper
• Inedible Fish
Barbara Westwood Diehl
• The Ultimate Grand Supreme
Damian Dressick
• Accrual
Louise Jarvis Flynn
• Over the Moon
Espido Freire
—The Wooden Monster
Avital Gad-Cykman
• Such As Any
Yael Gen
• Water
Myronn Hardy
• Philosophy of the Dead
Michael Hemmingson
• Why Don’t You Use Your
Parking Space?
Nik Houser
• The Kissing Booth Burns Down
Dallas Hudgens
• Sixty in Twenties
Rosemary Jones
• The Sichuan Princesses
Michael Kimball
• Three Girlfriends
laudanum at 33
• welles
• an open letter
• thymiane
Jen Mikalski
• Orion
Susan Smith Nash
• Discourse & Dustin, Oklahoma Panhandle Gun & Coin
Andrew Oldham
• Song of the Whale Boy
Steve Pastis
• Wet Dogs of Hispaniola
• The Bucket Seats of Poets
• The Zesty Saints
Susan Perabo
• End of Days
Deborah Pintonelli
• Baby Love
Terri G. Scullen
• Pullout
Martin Seay
• from “The Mirror Thief”
Irene Svete
• The Wake
David Veronese
• A Boy in Need
Lisa Vogel
• The Museum of This
Sue Williams
•Where the Apple Rolls
Keith R. Wilson
• Cleaning the Smoking Room
Tim Wirkus
• Apiary
Sally Wilde
• No One Knows You’re a God