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FICTION

AMANDA PAULEY
Driver, No Seatbelt | 14

JAMES BARNETT
The Causeway | 34

ABBY ROSENTHAL
Stall | 52

DICK BENTLEY
Bad Behavior | 92

LOUISE MARBURG
Betty Ford | 94

POETRY

JUDE BRANCHEAU
Double Dare | 9

DOUG RAMSPECK
Wind Songs | 10
Map of the Original World | 11

MATTHEW VALADES
The Snapping Turtle | 12

JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS
Inbetweenness | 42
Like something meant to be Looked Back on, Fondly | 43
Map of Heaven | 44
To Have and to Hold | 45

JENNIFER NEWHOUSE
Even in the Desert | 78
The Commuter’s Wife | 79

R.T. SMITH
Living Water | 80
Lure | 83
Miss Beverly Loverly on Graveyard Shift at the Old 280 Alamo | 85
Duet | 88
Zsa Zsa Fais Do-do | 90

T.J. MCLEMORE
Love Poem: Suspension | 109
Allegory of the Fence | 110
The Tie Post | 111

MARTA KOWALEWSKA
Tonight he will make me an American | 112
There Will Be No Suicides | 113
The Last Time | 114

MIMI HERMAN
In that Place | 115
High Tea | 116
Gratitude for Small Things | 117

GUSTAVO PÉREZ FIRMAT
No Country for Dirty Old Men | 118
Dirty Old Man at the Outer Banks | 119
Dirty Old Man Throws Caution to the Winds | 120

NONFICTION

MALA GAONKAR
Swayamvaram | 46

LOIS RUSKAI MELINA
The Fires of Dismemberment | 106

ART

AIMEE BUNGARD
Artist’s Statement | 64
Nut | 65
Anne | 66
Uncle | 67
New Growth | 68
Brushing | 69
Bunbun | 70
Whisper | 71
Seed | 72
This Succulents | 73
Unfurl | 74
She | 75
Pod | 76
Sprite | 77

REVIEW

ANNEKE SCHWOB
The Folly of Loving Life by Monica Drake | 121

Moira Marquis | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

MANAGING EDITOR

Christina Stephens

FICTION EDITOR

Laura Broom

POETRY EDITORS

Sarah George-Waterfield & Calvin Olsen

NON-FICTION EDITOR

Travis Alexander

BOOK REVIEW EDITORS

Ashley Werlinich & Anne Fertig

FICTION READERS

Mallory Findlay, Kenneth Lota, Andrew Kim, Stephanie Kinzinger, Ben Penley

POETRY READERS

Matthew Hotham & Jeffrey Peterson

NON-FICTION READERS

Anna Broadwell-Gulde & Grace Towery

STAFF

Sydney Ponthier, Andrew King, Maddie Norris, Joel Pinckney

COVER DESIGN

Victoria Price & Carolina Union Communications & Creative Services

BOOK REVIEWER

Anneke Schwob