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May 2013 Issue

REVIEWS Upstaged by Jacques Jouet Big Ray by Michael Kimball Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin The Cost of Living by Rob Roberge Every Possible Blue by Matthew Thorburn

INTERVIEWS An Interview with Kristina Marie Darling by Lightsey Darst

FLASH FICTION We Walked Through Mansions All Summer by Frances Badgett Family Tree by Ira Dawson Patterns of Flight by Gabrielle Hovendon

STRETCHING FORMS Recorded Music by Andy Peyrie Marriage: A Math Lesson Plan by Caitlin M. Smith

POETRY These are my best gifts: by Logen Cure I Try to Remember it All but Forget by Matthew Harrison Taste by Ryan Swofford

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FLASH FICTION For Art’s Sake by Carol Deminski Patient Confidentiality by Emily Franklin Foundations by David Mohan In the Time It Takes Me to Forget You My Hair Will Grow Back to the Way You Like It by Maddy Raskulinecz Ellipsis is every Futurist’s three bodyguards in shades… by Eldon Reishus THE PINK SLIP by Marcus Slease

STRETCHING FORMS Three Prose-Poems by Amanda Deo

SHORT STORIES Keith’s Week by Kyle Brown Get Down with the Sickness by Thomas Kearnes Love, Rose by Missy Roback

POETRY The Mermaid Rejects Your Story by Jessica Rae Bergamino Ode to Stephen Graham Jones by

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March 2013 Issue

REVIEWS David Foster Wallace was Wrong: Why John Updike Mattered and Always Will by Art Edwards

FLASH FICTION A New Space by Caitlin Barasch Toll by Colleen Kiely

CREATIVE NONFICTION The State of Women: August 26, 1920 by Tara Gilboy This Lingering by Kelly Miller

STRETCHING FORMS I Lie In A Way That Knows Me by Parker Tettleton

SHORT STORIES Me and My Sister and the Bear by Owen Clements The Unreliable. by Edward Mc Whinney Grady George–Man of the Hour by Jim Meirose

POETRY The Mermaid’s Lament by Mckendy Fils-Aime Confession by Emily Maloney NO ONE GETS OUT OF

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February 2013 Issue

INTERVIEWS An Interview With Rick Rofihe by Nicolle Elizabeth An Interview With Nico Vassilakis by David Hoenigman

REVIEWS My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. Seidlinger Monogamy Songs by Gregory Sherl

FLASH FICTION Time the Heart Beats by Peter Colwell Speed Ramp by Gordon Highland 3 City Prose Poems by Claudia Serea Baring by Hananah Zaheer

STRETCHING FORMS I am starless by Jackie Cope

SHORT STORIES Jawbone by Catherine Carberry An Extraordinary Case by Kate Leary Rules to Die By by Monica Z. Sage

POETRY Place by Jagannath Adukuri INVITATION TO POETRY by Laurie Barton Letter from Another Place by

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January 2013 Issue

INTERVIEWS An Interview With Alex Grecian by MaryAnne Kolton An Interview With Thomas E. Kennedy by Timmy Waldron

REVIEWS The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss

FLASH FICTION Deathday and the Next Day by Steve Danziger Halibut Point by Molly Dektar Motown’s Most Lonely by Jason Joyce Two Fictions by Peter Zuppardo

NOVEL EXCERPTS Getting Lucky by Thomas E. Kennedy Me by M.O.N.

SHORT STORIES Rules We Abide By by Matthew Ankeny The Wheel by Randall DeVallance The Sound of Healing by Emil Ostrovski

POETRY Six Poems by Jordan Boyd A quiet dream at the beach at night by Joshua

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December 2012 Issue

INTERVIEWS An Interview With Richard Froude by Neelanjana Banerjee An Interview With Kevin Keating by David Hoenigman An Interview With Cooper Renner by Nicolle Elizabeth and Kevin O’Cuinn

FLASH FICTION John Wayne by Michael K. Meyers Enola Gay by Glenn Shaheen

NOVEL EXCERPTS TV Snorted My Brain by Bradley Sands

EXPERIMENTAL filled by Shawnacy Kiker Public Toilet Safety for Women by Nina Pratt

SHORT STORIES Miller’s Cymbal Orchestra by Jim Meirose

POETRY POPE IN GARDEN, THOUGHTFUL by Katherine Berta When Things Stick Together by Stephen Buoro A Foothold by Colin Dodds WHEN WOULD YOU ORDINARILY WANT by Leora Fridman every

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November 2012 Issue

INTERVIEWS An Interview With Chloe Caldwell by Scott McClanahan

REVIEWS Shift by Alyse Bensel The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn

FLASH FICTION This Much I Know by Shebana Coelho Shisha Love by Sahar Mustafah Long Weekend by Nick Sansone Fading by Cyn Vargas

SHORT STORIES Step Right Up by Jacqueline Doyle Dinner and Movie, and Other Stuff by Emil Ostrovski

EXPERIMENTAL Mannequin Garden by Rachel Springer

POETRY Five Poems by D.M Aderibigbe wedding vows by Nic Alea from ‘Captured by the Source’ by Andre Bagoo Communism by C. Dylan Bassett Three Poems by Robert Cowan

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October 2012 Issue

FLASH FICTION Whiskey to Denim by Carly Berg The Second Time I Met Ellie’s Dad by Sean Lovelace King of the Zombies by Richard Peabody A Dictionary of Devotions by Marianne Villanueva Woo-Kyung-Valerie by Esme-Michelle Watkins

SHORT STORIES Ravishing by Kate Scarpetta

POETRY Café by the Ruins by Rina Caparras judas in the city by Séamas Carraher EPITAPH FOR AN AGING BOOMER by Howie Good WISDOM TOOTH EXTRACTION by Brett Elizabeth Jenkins the time i said hello to you, and you thought i was a bear by Paul Jessup In a Study of the Meadow Ezra Pound reconfigured by June Saraceno

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September 2012 Issue

INTERVIEWS An Interview With Matt Bell and Jac Jemc

REVIEWS Shock and Awe by Ethan Rafal

FLASH FICTION Blood a Cold Blue by James Claffey On The Line by Lee Wright

CREATIVE NONFICTION My Hour Was Up by Michelle Ephraim Try Not to Kill Anybody by Sean Finucane Toner

SHORT STORIES We, The Boys and Girls by Erin Kelly Those Who Know Better Are Sleeping by Jonathan Starke

POETRY The Haunting by James Babbs Ghouls by Jean Byrne Postscript by Chris Emslie Migration by Michelle Holmes Riding in the passenger seat while the driver is on crack by Mike Lafontaine

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August 2012 Issue

REVIEWS The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail by Gregory Sherl Growing up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones

FLASH FICTION Driving Neutral by Joseph Han At Some Small Hour by Spencer Hayes Before the World by Eric Thompson

CREATIVE NONFICTION After Mass by Edward Mc Whinney Ocean of Ash by Kirsten Perry

SHORT STORIES Dead in the Head by Chelsie Bryant

POETRY Six Poems by Bryan Frederick Brown Hell of a Tavern by William Cullen Jr. Reverse Catastrophe by Ramona Itule-Patigian Two Poems by Tyrel Kessinger Signs by Peter Kispert Someone Left

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