Table of Contents

Prose

Vanessa Gebbie

The Comeback

Aaron Polson

The House Eaters

Deb Shucka

Green Tears

Anne Brooke

A Lonely Place

Jendi Reiter

Waiting for the Train to Fort

         Devens, June 17 1943

Tom Fillion

Elm City P.O.W.

Halli Melnitsky

Dessert in Medina Wasl

Steve Kavalin

Gunslinger

Laura Droege

Coffee

Cheryl Russell

Buried Gold

Poetry

Alexandria Ashford

Elegy in Broken Stanzas

Alaine Benard

The Last Dance

Chris Crittenden

Carcass in Mojave

Delirious Sweat

Dusk Dance

Avonne Griffin

Imagining I’m Billy Collins’ Immunologist

The Gingerbread Man

Ava Haymon

The Riddle

The First Wish

Everygirl’s Mandala

Ronald Edwin Lane

Where Will They Land?

Richard Luft

An Empty Vessel

Joseph A.W. Quintela

the semiotics of fear.

Brian Wilkins

Absolute Zero