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FICTION

KEVIN WILSON
The Choir Director Affair (The Baby’s Teeth) | 6

NANCI KINCAID
First I Shoot You, Then You Shoot Me | 15

JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN
The Penguin and Mary Poppins | 22

STEVE ALMOND
Belief | 32

GINGER STRAND
Princess | 40

POETRY

MICHAEL ATKINSON
This Year’s Marriage Poem | 12

KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK
Easter and the Change of Life | 19

JOHN KINSELLA
A Defining Moment | 20

JACQUELINE OSHEROW
Soreq | 25

CHRIS CHILDERS
Archaeology | 29

ROBERT WRIGLEY
Silence | 37

ROBERT WEST
On the Face of It | 38

REVIEWS

HILLARY ELKINS
Lucky Girls by Nell Freudenberger Short Reviews | 55

MELISSA USSERY INTINTOLO
Lunch at the Picadilly by Clyde Edgerton | 58

JENNY MCCRAW
A Company of Three by Varley O’Conner | 59

AMY WELDON
Old School by Tobias Wolff | 60

SCULPTURE

MIKE ROIG
West Wind Sentinels | Cover
Lotus Bells | 14
Axis of Agape | 24
Consider the Lilies | 39
Inner Whirled | 54

Lindsay Starck, Moira Marquis | EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Catherine O’Neill

FICTION EDITOR

Moira Anne Marquis
Rae Yan

BOOK REVIEW EDITOR

Sam Bednarchik
Travis Alexander

NON-FICTION EDITORS

Sam Bednarchik, Travis Alexander

LAYOUT EDITOR

Samntha Farley

COVER DESIGN

Philip McFee

POETRY EDITOR

Sarah George-Waterfield
Lee Norton

ART EDITOR

Chloe Accardi

STAFF: Aisha Anwar, Krista Harder, John Ligtenberg, Maddie Norris
FICTION READERS: Laura Broom, Jacob Watson, L. Lamar Wilson
POETRY READERS: Matthew Hotham, Jeffrey Peterson
NON-FICTION READERS: Ryan-Ashley Anderson, Anneke Schwob