Winter 2008 | Volume 59.1
ALEX TAYLOR
The Can Picker | 11
NATALIE HARRIS
Thanksgiving | 23
ROBERT LACY
Occurrence at 133 Park Street, Apartment 2A | 48
JILL HUDGINS
The Necktie | 69
MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN
How to Read Historical Markers | 76
POETRY
JAMES DOYLE
Fossil Rooms | 7
JASON MITCHELL
Bone Orchard | 8
On the Way Home | 10
CHARLIE CLARK
When A Scarecrow Thinks of Fire | 19
In Your Fragment | 20
WILMER MILLS
A Young Priest’s Wife Begins to Think | 41
NASCAR Poster Boy | 44
LAYLA CARROLL
Persephone Shows Back Up Drunk | 46
GAYLORD BREWER
The Hymn of the Flies | 53
ROBERT WRIGLEY
A Note About the Ants At 5 A.M. | 54
Full | 57
The Jewel Box | 59
JILL KUPCHIK
#1 | 73
OLIVER RICE
Whatever, Whatever | 74
MARK JARMAN
Tiel Burn | 79
Self-Censorship | 81
ROBERT MORGAN
“It Really All Started Here at Chapel Hill” | 82
ART
DANIEL MARTINI
Contact | 6
DAVID NAGY
The Bench | 21
AMIR FATHI
Samira | 22
PATRICK KENNEDY
Smoke | 47
JAMES BALLANTINE
The Saint | 52
JULIO ROJAS
Onions | 56
ERNST HAECKEL
Trochilidae | 68
DAVID KEMP
Mannequin I | 75
DENNIS MOJADO
Santa Cruz Boardwalk | 78
DAVID SIFRY
Mel’s Diner | 102
REVIEWS
RACHEL BERRY
Boy by Patrick Phillips | 100
MATTHEW LUTER
Cornbread Nation 4 Edited by Dale Volberg Reed & John Shelton Reed | 103
PORTFOLIO
MICHELE FERRARIA
Tools of the First Topographics | 60
Evan Gurney | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
FICTION EDITOR
Matthew Luter
POETRY INTERN
Hannah Bonner
ART EDITOR
Philip McFee
MANAGING EDITOR
Brittany Wofford
POETRY EDITOR
Rachel Berry
FICTION READERS: Oren Abeles, Kate Attkisson, Ben Bolling, Ilouise Bradford, Heather Branstetter, Gale Greenlee, Susan Thananopavarn, and Ricky Werner
POETRY READERS: Robert Erle Barham, Katie Bowler, Laurie Capps, and Henry Kearney