Issue 36

Fiction

Wes Civilz
First World Problem

Nancy Dinan
The Exact Opposite of Deja Vu

Aimee Pogson
Bells

Luke Muyskens
Shotgun to an Empty Seat

Poetry

Elisabeth Murawski
Mime on Little River Turnpike
Thirst

Bruce Bond
Politics
Clarity

Todd Davis
Learning to Tie a Fly
What My Aunt Virginia Says When She Visits

Sarah Munroe
Poem That Begins With Hafez
Thinking About My Father Around His Birthday

Susan Terris
The French Girl Who Hates to be Eurydice
The French Boy Who Must Be Faust

Michael Salcman
John Updike’s Trash
Seven or Eight Reflections on Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Jehanne Dubrow
Scholar Sharpening His Quill
Tefillah for an Adjunct Professor
On Teaching Art Spiegelman’s Maus

John Sibley Williams
Aftermaths
If
Giving Thanks

Emily Vizzo
What Magic You Bring You Bring to You Alone

Creative Nonfiction

Angela Bullock
One Summer Night and a Winter Death

Jessie van Eerden
Blessed is the Impossible Heart

Unclassifiable

Shawndra Miller
Bleeding the Butterfly