TABLE OF CONTENTS

MASTHEAD

Editor-in-Cheif – Sheila Squillante

Managing Editor – Lauren Hunter

Fiction Editor – Anjali Sachdeva

Nonfiction Editor – Marc Nieson

Poetry Editor – Heather McNaugher

Associate Editors – Jenny Drone, Halsey Hyer, Milo Keeler, Bailey Sims

Assistant Editors – Alasdair Blackwell, Tessa Kilby, Chrissy Richardson, Emma Sargent, Emily Smith, Rachel Yahn

Copy Editor – Bailey Sims

Artwork Choices – Rachel Yahn and Lauren Hunter

Cover Art – “Light Revealed” by Bernie Wilkie

Layout & Design – Kinsley Stocum

poetry

  • Darren Black, A Single Damn Word Never Finished; While Waiting for the Ophthalmologist’s Prognosis

  • Susan Caroll Jewell, Missing the Quarter Round

  • Roger Desy, moth music?

  • Joy Parker, Special Victims Unit

  • Robin Scofield, Bipolar in Relation to the Globe

  • Marie Scarlet, I tried to live

  • Mykki Rios, HIDE HERE (an anti-social anxious anthem)

  • Darcy Smith, Waiting for My Woman

  • Nolo Segundo, The Walking Wounded

  • Gail Griffin, February; Peripheral Vision; December

  • Carly Butler, PTMD (Post Traumatic Meteor Disorder)

  • David Fowler, Faker Test at Austin Airport

  • Ethan Mershon, Metamorphosis

  • Ava C. Cipri, Dearest Lara (Letters to Lara Croft of Tomb Raider)

  • BEE LB, schism

  • Megan Leonard, I Never Saw the Dog

  • Judy Kaber, Reading Disability

  • Ellen Wright, If You Asked Me

  • Michael Salmon, Lap Pool Memory (Nine Seconds)

  • Tom Wayman, THESE DAYS; GATE; TONGUE WEIGHT

FICTION

  • Belinda J. Kein, Beyond Repair

nonfiction

  • Ben Gamle, The FAA Does Not Permit Squirrels or the Author of this Essay to Operate Aircraft

  • Joy Parker, Point-of-View

  • Susan Nordmark, Selecting an SNF with IR for Your Family Member Using the List the LTAC DC-SW Gave You Keeping in Mind Your Criteria to Achieve Recovery to Pre-Stroke Levels as Well as the Deadline Based on Medicare LOS Guidelines of Five Days From Now

  • Sara Pisak, In My Veins

  • Laura Adrienne Brady, How to Return

  • Kristin DeMarco Wagner, Petechiae

  • Bhavna Mehta, Push and Pull

  • Emily Marie Seibert, A Place to Bed