Fall/Winter 2018 | Volume 68.1

FICTION CONTEST WINNERS: “WAKE, AND DREAM AGAIN”

DANIEL WALLACE
Words in Preparation | 15

First Prize: KATHLEEN MCNAMARA
Cryptozoology | 18

Second Prize: TESSA YANG
Haunting Ground | 32

Third Prize: GEORGE HOVIS
The Undertaker | 42

Honorable Mention: CRAIG SANDERS
The Colby Jack Accords on Love, Patience, and Practicality | 60

POETRY

KAREN HOLMBERG
Allegory | 9

STEPHEN GIBSON
A Horse Skull with Hands | 12
A “Ghost Ranch” | 13

BRAD CLOMPUS
Octopus: Cartoon and Exhibit | 79

JANE ZWART
The Leaf Collection, 1989 | 80

JESSICA GUZMAN ALDERMAN
Don’t Cry in the Canned Soup Aisle | 83

JAMES GRINWIS
Siberia | 84

CHARLOTTE MUZZI
Bernoulli’s Principle Does Not Explain Flight | 106
Waiting at the Airport | 108
January, Gunflint | 109

CLIFF SCROGIN
At Six | 121

MIKE GOOD
PorchToad | 122
Everyone is Doing Their Best | 124

CAROLINA HOTCHANDANI
A Bird in the Mind | 125

JOEL SHOWALTER
The Cemetery is Full of People Who Would Love to Have Your Problems | 128
Self-Elegy with Hand Grenade | 129

J.M. JORDAN
Starlight Motor Lodge | 130
Near the Sky in Truxton Circle | 131

GRANT CLAUSER
San Francisco Begins Construction of a Suicide Net Under the Golden Gate Bridge | 132

ELISABETH MURAWSKI
The Panther Cornered | 134
Stone Fruit | 136

MICHAEL SALCMAN
How the Professor Rose | 137

RYAN TAHMASEB
For Noah, In His First Year | 138

MIKE SOTO
[Let the rifle sleep & take the path] | 140

DIANE HUETER
Beneath the Alaska Way Viaduct Seattle, 1966 | 142

LOIS LEVINSON
In the Peloponnese | 144

STEVEN CRAMER
Without a Name for This | 146

BRIAN MCDONALD
At My Father’s Knights of Columbus | 147

NONFICTION

RACHEL RUECKERT
The Million Steps to Santiago | 110

ART

JERI GRIFFITH
Artist’s Statement | 86
The Ragged War of Words | 87
The Politician Conjurer | 88
Soldier | 89
Falling | 90
After the Battle – Ghost Talk | 91
Mother and Sons | 92
Graveyard | 93

AMY JACKSON
Artist’s Statement |94
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indmachtool4131715 |96
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SILAS PLUM
Artist’s Statement |100
A Bit of the Old Ludwig |101
Green vs. Pink |102
Horn Bald Lune Folk Tomb Plum |103
Vortex Beast |104
Cultural Commodity |105

REVIEWS

JESSICA SLAVIC DREXEL
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories by Helen DeWitt | 148

MARY SCOTT MANNING
The Blurry Years by Eleanor Kriseman | 151