Table of Contents

Editor’s Note                                       5

Suellen Wedmore                                 7                                              That Afternoon

POETRY

Chard deNiord                                     11                                            Beach

Lavonne Adams                                   12                                            Burn

Jamie Aneselmo                                    13                                            Tracy

Chris Bevard                                        14                                            Bella Luna

Ryan Brown                                         15                                            Two

                                                            16                                            For You Whom

E.G. Burrows                                       17                                            Lariat

Emily Cesta                                          18                                            In Those Days

Brad Clompus                                      19                                            Pigeon In A Box

Jocelyn Coalter                                     21                                            Sunday Morning

Leonard Cochran                                 22                                            Wings

Peter Desy                                           23                                            Burnings

N. Lee Dickinson                                 24                                            Home of the Pop Tart and

                                                                                                            Brave Frozen Skillet Meat

Neil Ferreira                                         25                                            Cookie Man

Jeff Friedman                                        27                                            Bowling Instruction

29                                                                                        The Twist

Martin Galvin                                        30                                            The Screened Bird

Therese Halscheid                                32                                            Cathedral

Judith Hemschemeyer                           33                                            Derivation

Don Herzberg                                       34                                            Me and Herb

Michelle Lettiero                                   36                                            Untitled

37                                                                                        For You

Kelly Lock                                           38                                            Because My Mother

Wouldn’t Tell Me

Khaled Mattawa                                   40                                            Vicinity (i, ii, iv, v, vii)

William Miller                                       45                                            My Father in Hell

Martin Ott                                            46                                            Unclaimed Baggage Center,

                                                                                                            Scottsboro, Alabama

Aaron Paolino                                      48                                            Archer

June Lunin Perel                                   49                                            Falmouth Heights: The Dragon

Marissa Perel                                       50                                            The Visitor

Marta Petreu                                        52                                            In Our Secrecy

53                                                                                        Marta’s Everyday Dress

54                                                                                        In Memory of Cruelty

55                                                                                        Pyschic Place I

56                                                                                        Pyschic Place II

Stephen Sandy                                     57                                            Discovered Country

Jennifer Sargent                                    58                                            Dandelion Heads

Edgar Silex                                           60                                            What He Wanted

Mary-Joy Spencer                                61                                            The Direction of a Leave

Rawdon Tomlinson                               62                                            Geronimo and the Brothers of Light

Tiffany Toner                                        64                                            Stone Soup

FICTION

Charles Edward Brooks                       67                                            The Shop Window

Elysia Cappellucci                                 76                                            Swans

Kim Chinquee                                      80                                            The Homes of Wild Rose Terrace

Peter Johnson                                       92                                            The Chair

Erin Keller                                            98                                            Whiter Days

James Kerr                                           101                                          Absolute Auction

Lee Upton                                            115                                          Maureen’s Murder Mystery

James Ward                                         120                                          Every Commandment but the Fifth

ART

Quilan Corey                                        131                                          Giraffe

Angela Gagnon                                     132                                          Untitled

Ducha Hang                                         133

John Philpott                                         134                                         Untitled

Ralph Tavares                                      135                                          I Wonder if She’s Thinking of Me

TRANSLATION

Anthony Esolen                                    139                                          Dante, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio

Edward McCrorie                                156                                          Homer, The Iliad, Book VI,

Lines 393 – 489

CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTES             161