The Fourth River

A Journal of Nature and Place-based Writing Published by the Chatham University MFA Program

Issue o.9 “Futures” CONTRIBUTORS

FICTION/POETRY/NONFICTION

Stacey Balkun
- Nov 10, 2020 Exclusion Zone; The Fall; and On the First of March Crows Begin to Search
John Belk
- Nov 10, 2020 Perry Saturn makes ends meet after a failed tour with New Japan Pro Wrestling; At the Top of this Space Elevator
Rachel Busse
- Nov 10, 2020 Light, Future and Past
Reilly Cox
- Nov 10, 2020 Bagseed
Caleb Coy
- Nov 10, 2020 Sublime Long After the End
Soramimi Hanarejima
- Nov 10, 2020 Homeostasis
Pamela Herron
- Nov 10, 2020 Land of Our Fathers
Tricia Knoll
- Nov 10, 2020 Wired: Hybrid of Wild and Tired
A. Molotkov
- Nov 10, 2020 A Long Hour
Holly Painter
- Nov 10, 2020 The Tragedy of Space Opera
Josephine Pino
- Nov 10, 2020 Marvelous Things; For Powdered Coating Take Exit 16
Shannon Quinn
- Nov 10, 2020 New Future @prayer; Letter from Glaucous to New Future; Letter from New Future
Joyce Schmid
- Nov 10, 2020 Bird and Machine
Laura-Gray Street
- Nov 10, 2020 The Brink of Bones; “Nearby Super-Earth Likely a Diamond Planet”
Amie Whittemore
- Nov 10, 2020 First Transmission from the Indestructible Observer; The Indestructible Observer Remembers Sleep; The Indestructible Observer Remembers Summer

ARTWORK

Sherry Shahan
- Nov 10, 2020 Purple Fingers
- Nov 11, 2020 Honeybee
Bill Wolak
- Nov 10, 2020 Where Moonlight Vanished
- Nov 11, 2020 Fleeting As a Whim
- Nov 11, 2020 The Mirrors Insomnia