Poetry by Laura Bylenok
Parable of the Wolf Wherever You Are | Heavy Bombardment | Model Organism
Issue No. 4
Poetry
Poetry By Dustin Pearson
Autobiography | Dues | Family Mentality
Poetry by Matthew Cook
Crossing Point | Single Occupancy Unity | The Hedging Season
Poetry by Annah Browning
Ghost Coming to Terms | Medium after Trances | Medium on the Sleeping Arrangements of the Dead
Poetry by Lucy Duggan
Corrections | Ought
Poetry by Jane Riley
as exhibited | cow | rejoinder
Poetry By Mary Catherine Harper
Four Words of the Apocalypse | Eleusinian Mystery | Diving In
Poetry by Anne Barngrover
Tennessee Is Burning | Why I Couldn’t Write | Final Days, 2016
Fiction
“Rabbits” by Iben Mondrup
Karl finally arrives home. With him in the car is his mother, she sits in the passenger seat as he rolls down the driveway . . .
“Landing” by Toti O’Brien
She needs not to hear the name, the mother whose child has died on the ferryboat . . .
“Bubbles” by Mandy-Suzanne Wong
I knew the dog was blind because while combing the shop I nearly tripped over the scrawny, scruffy Pomeranian—which didn’t pompom the way those dogs are supposed to . . .
“Little Bottle” by Helen Wing
Just before the Avenue of Eternal Peace stand the snow white headquarters of the China Women’s Organization . . .
Non-Fiction
“Mumbai, 1965. St. Louis, 1995.” by Asha Thanki
I always want to write about my mother’s hands. Her veins bulge, green and purple beneath her skin, and sometimes when she’s tired they travel up her wrists like garden snakes . . .
from “Sleep Them Close: A Story of New Orleans” by Melissa Dickey
Smell of sweet olive. Picking satsumas, kumquats, lemons, whatever overhung the sidewalk. Japanese plums from the tree in front of the house . . .
“Consider the Sex Offender” by Christine Hume
I involuntarily recall a story I heard on NPR. A group of boys rape a 12-year-old girl. In an abandoned hunting cabin in the woods. At a summer camp . . .