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FICTION

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

INTERVIEW

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
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