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SEPTEMBER 2024
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Fiction
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War Zones in the Modern World
The Firebug of Mount Usakam
Catching the Change Train
Detroitus
Eddie
Poetry
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For Cookie’s Cousin, locked in the crazy house, not yet 18
A Soldier in the Great War
Golden Years
Identity Politics
Flannel
Comfort Care
Conversations With My Father
Contributors
JULY 2024
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Fiction
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I Was Certain
The Butterfly and the Moth
Mary
Happy
Shadow of a Singer
Poetry
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Clean Sheets
Binge Drinking (Shipper's Delight)
I'd Rather Fight
Mother's Words
Contributors
MAY 2024
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Fiction
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Pure Romance, or Last Rites at the Rite Aid
Service
Always
When There Was No Future
The Runaways
Poetry
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The Trip to Auschwitz
1974
eggshells
Stifled
Contributors
MARCH 2024
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Fiction
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Cheaches
All Flavors of Fine
Sumiko and Parker at the Ritz-Carlton
Pistol
Zippo
Poetry
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Loneliness Comes
Sisters
nostalgia
shots
Truck Stop
Getting Sober in the Garden of Eden
Contributors
JANUARY 2024
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Fiction
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Taking Care
The Last Known Steve Story
Reaching Out
Leandra's House
Fallen Crow
Poetry
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This is Nature's Way
Head to Hands
Anti-Poetical Sayings
Coffee House Poem # 616
Twelve
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2023
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Fiction
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Clean World
Adverse Possession
Dreamy Party
Wish Myself to Dream
The New Math
Poetry
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war
Sleep Cycle
Evening
Air
A Seasonal Poem
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2023
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Fiction
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This Way Forward
The Hat
Forecasting
Proof
Memorial Day
Poetry
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In Love With
Downsized
Somewhere Else to Go
Bad Boy
The Wrong Side of Night
Contributors
JULY 2023
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Fiction
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Attaché
Be That Person
Fires of Flesh
The Adventures We Had
The Losing Side
Poetry
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Thank you for thinking of us
The Land of Submarines
The Rain
Contributors
MAY 2023
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Fiction
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When Carolyn Sheltered in Place
The Foyle
Standing Eight
My Imagination is Anesthesia
Trapped in that Personal Void of Mine
Poetry
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They Only Want You To Show Up So They Can Badmouth You When You Leave
waterfront window
Mornings
Wild Burros
The Call
Contributors
MARCH 2023
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Fiction
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The Fine Art of Self-Destruction
Old-Timers Day
Wall of Pictures
In a Time of Covid
The Rhyme of the Ancient Dodo Bird
Poetry
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Broad Fields and Rushing Waters
Catch
In the family room
Poets Die
Contributors
JANUARY 2023
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Fiction
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Greenberg
The Tinkerer
Bunker Down
Old Betsy
M is For. . .
Poetry
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All I Got
Lemmings
Jane
Life's Little Pleasures
Reflected Day
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2022
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Fiction
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The Angel of Death
The House of Pain
Marking Time
The Hoops
Manny Strikes Out
Poetry
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To My Old Age
Suitcase
No Way Back
I Am Old
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2022
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Fiction
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Lessons Learned from Mechanics and Jewelers
July Frost
Baloney Sandwiches--I Should Have Known
Mari Decides
The Visit
Poetry
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To Young Daughters
The Net
Walking Life Away
There's Nothing on TV at 5 pm
Self-Tapping Screw
The World Goes Forward
Contributors
JULY 2022
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Fiction
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High Score
Popoff
Swan Song
Orange Fan
A Library Story
Movie Winter vs. the Red Explosion
Deallbreak
Sad Jack at the Playground
Poetry
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Brothers
Before a Reunion He Has No Desire to Attend, the English Teacher Stops for a Drink
Constant Dreadful Feeling
The antique children
Nature
It Changes Nothing
Contributors
MAY 2022
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Fiction
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A Difficult Name
Off the Grid
The Power of Three
The Recruiter
Burning Favors
Birdman
If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
Poetry
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Maybe the Best Poetry
Desert Twilight
lies about nighttime
Second-Hand Events
Come What May
Contributors
MARCH 2022
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Fiction
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Shelter
The Whole Story
Life Coach
Armie
The Reunion
Poetry
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After Neruda
The ‘mad’ hitchhiker’s ride to any small Irish town
The Precipice of Sanity
We Had Bodies That Knew Each Other So Well
Book Review
Contributors
JANUARY 2022
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Fiction
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Smoke
Some Birds
My Big Break
Senior DIscount
The Cottage
Poetry
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Broken Boy
Last Known Address
A Seaside Town In Winter
America 2.0
Book Reviews
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The Northern Line - Mike Lee
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2021
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Fiction
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To Thine Own Self Be True
The Wedding Pine
The City of the Dead
Small Talk
American's Grasslands
Poetry
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Closing the House
Understanding
Crossword
Caroline at 69
stranded
Book Review
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2021
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Fiction
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Yin and Yang
Day Player
Paradise
His Book
Attic of Regrets
Poetry
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Rage of Innocence
Don't Make Me Talk
A Moment in Time
Street Children
Driven Off by Wind
Contributors
JULY 2021
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Fiction
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Lefty Takes a Turn
Planet Kevin
The Things We Hold on To
Comanche
Girl on the Balcony
Poetry
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The Box
Picture of Collette on Her Honeymoon
Contributors
JUNE 2021
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Fiction
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A Week to Dine Out On
Small Steps
To Know Your Target Audience
Luna's Reprieve
Laps
Poetry
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Hallmark Cards
When it Comes to Sorrow
Into Your Eyes Moist with Tears
prodigal daughter
march
Contributors
MAY 2021
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Fiction
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Drink Run
Brooches and Toys for Your Delight
The Mickey Mouse Affair
The Loss of the Whaling Ship Pequod
The Hare in the DIsh
Poetry
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Between the Sand and the Stars
Putting the Mind at Ease
On the Question of Joy
When you tap the muscle memory of the bkue tarp
Self Portrait I
Contributors
APRIL 2021
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Fiction
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River Walk, Upstate Town
Rooms with Character
Life with Angie
The Lives of Angels
The Tree in Harvey Park
Poetry
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A Year is Five Seasons
After the Call
en route to Austin
Expiration Date
Wishing for You
i've been on hold a surprising amount of time
Contributors
MARCH 2021
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Fiction
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Swimming to the Island
For All That is Hidden
Joey Mullins is Not the Narrator
Friends: One Down, One Arrested
Coal Tipple
The Deaf Woman's TV
Poetry
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Woods
The Lingering of Doubt
Guiding Light
Descent
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2021
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Fiction
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I Want to Be Good
Whip-poor-will
Finding Marigold
A Good Steward
Atheist
Poetry
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uncaged animal
bill's private quarrel
Why Are Most People Boring
Contributors
JANUARY 2021
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Fiction
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The Town You Came From
Glass Eyes
Disappearance
the beginning
Ore Boat
Poetry
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You Are
A Surrealist Takes a Shave
We Are in a Circle
Covid Reverie
Big Empty
Contributors
DECEMBER 2020
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Fiction
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The King of Love is Dead
I'll Never Know
Acceptimg
A Dog by Any Other Name
Sing Me A River
Poetry
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I Am Woman
Parts and Labor
How to Become a Blade of Grass
holding your breath in space
Am I Pretty Enough?
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2020
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Fiction
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Catch and Release
Bar Fights and Brain Scans
Boss
Charcoal
Rice Paddies
Poetry
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Beyond Windows
Inside a Closet
In Search of Lost Property
Relative Strangers
Contributors
OCTOBER 2020
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Fiction
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Two Things
Slightly Down and Off to the Left
The Seawall
Stay at Home
The Nine Jakes
Poetry
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Chaos Theory
the pruning
Always Almost You
For Helen
Something Missing
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2020
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Fiction
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Digging the Basement
Chasing Shadows
Feelin' Guruvy
Blonde Noir
Poetry
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This prick
The Night Sky
Jane
The Loss of Outer Things
Ash
Things I'd Waited to Say
Contributors
AUGUST 2020
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Fiction
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Singles Week
By Lake Lacustrine
Shall I Show You What It's Like Out There?
Spaces
An Elderly Woman Looks Out the Window
Poetry
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On Overcoming Gamophobia
Prison of Poverty
Never Was
That Old Guy You Always See
A Twelve-Year-Old's Kingdom
Changing Sunsets
Contributors
JULY 2020
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Fiction
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Big Wheel
Heads and Tales
The Ordinary Daughter
Compounded in Clay
Newlyweds
Poetry
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Wattle Woman
Immortals
Logical Madness
Loss
Conversation
Contributors
JUNE 2020
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Fiction
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Old Guilt
After He Realized His Mortality
AEIOU Sometimes Y
On the Road North
A Passage to Queens
Poetry
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Assisted Living
Strongest drug of all
Holiday
insides out
Cosmic Martini
Contributors
MAY 2020
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Fiction
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The Trip Not Taken
Assumptions
Where I WIll Not Go
Wounded Bird
Lucky Day
Poetry
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Rooms, Streets, Streets, Rooms
Wicker Bar Stools
Poetic License
Gaslight
Those Darker Days of Salvation & Prayer
Contributors
APRIL 2020
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Fiction
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Deep Water
Short Story Ticketed for Improper Lane Change
A Walk With Ron
Taps
The Library in White Cedar
Poetry
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The Bath
Fighting
Convenience Store
Hell
The Pain's Words
Contributors
MARCH 2020
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Fiction
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Noble Dan
Please Stop Telling Me About Your Dead Dog
Rock Star at La Scala
Gerry's Interview
Call Tom!
Poetry
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Still Oars
Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause
The First
Untitled
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2020
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Fiction
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Our Country, Tis of Thee
Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?
Maybe Less
Finding Helen
A Drowning Moth
Poetry
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The Fakeness
Bob Hope in Vietnam
Save for Me Your Darkness
A Bystander's Face
Contributors
JANUARY 2020
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Fiction
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Horoscopes Don't Lie
Why Did You Leave Me?
Ahab
Lolly
Jericho
Just Kidding
Maggie
Poetry
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Unbaby
The Take-Over
Poverty is painful
Contributors
DECEMBER 2019
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Fiction
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Reconciliation
FIghts
Bottles
Uprising at Rockdale
Always
Poetry
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Neatnik
Transcendental
World Music
Lost
Divorce Agreement
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2019
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Fiction
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Perspective
Searching
ROCKS and Stones and trees
The Gift
The Sound of Loss
Poetry
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After Work
Water
Creed
Goa, India
homegoing
Taking Leave in Late Autumn
Contributors
OCTOBER 2019
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Fiction
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Insurance
Lessons
Doop
A Relationship in Three Acts
Poetry
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The Adcocks
You Won't Believe Me Now
Cloud
Genesis
Artless Lies
PS 102
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2019
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Fiction
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Sky Sightings
Shelter in Place
No Blood
Weekly Progress Meeting
Damn the Sublime
Poetry
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Forever the Moment
Children of the World
To Liang Shanbo
Getting Ready to Leave
Contributors
AUGUST 2019
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Fiction
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Shooter Inside
Peace River
Joanne Two
The Lacquered Cabinet
Not Even Close
Poetry
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Dublin
Shift Change
Birds of Paradise
Stage Business
Alone in Life
Contributors
JULY 2019
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Fiction
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Father
Urobor
What Was Seen
Lindsey's Loves
The Old Man and the Plant
One Man and No Moving Truck
Poetry
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Beer Candy and Beverage
seed and spice
Drunk Ages
Wild Hairs
Central Park
Contributors
JUNE 2019
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Fiction
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The Green Lamp
Showdown at Big Lake
Doomed Men
Jenny Maples
Poetry
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he wonders why something that happened so long ago still affects me today
Back of the House
quiet feeling
Grievances
Scraps
Gadgets
Officer Daddy in the 60's
Contributors
MAY 2019
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Fiction
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Uncle George
Angelino's Clock
Washing Machine
Hand Down from Malmedy
Monsieur Micheau
Poetry
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Hurdles
Driving home with Andre
I compose myself
Grievous Angel
Contributors
APRIL 2019
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Fiction
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Fortune Cookies
Durant
Skyline
Mr. Orsaz: Story of a Disaster on a Balcony
What You Say I Say Again
The Blue Line
Poetry
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An Offering
First Love
An Imaginary Visit With Mary Oliver
My Dark Room
Two friends in Bend
Contributors
MARCH 2019
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Fiction
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Absolutely Fourth Street
Release
Epiphany
Possible Chorus
The Window Washer
Poetry
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bullet in his head
Hair Poem # 2
My Eyes Waken
You Belong to Virgo
Room Tour
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2019
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Fiction
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Roger, Recapitulated
Casualties
This is My Child
A Nasty Shock
Reflections in Blue Water
Poetry
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Closer
I turn down a Blind alley
Dawn
Dotage
Broken Concrete
Contributors
JANUARY 2019
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Fiction
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The Living Years
The Zoogoer
The Three Cadenzas
Telling the Bees
Slapstick Blues
innocence deep
Poetry
>
Stranger You Can't Enter Here
Saviers Road, Oxnard, CA 1991
Wrinkles
Leaves Passing Over
Winter Vision
Contributors
DECEMBER 2018
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Fiction
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A Christmas to Remember
A Return
R.I.Z.Z.O.
Speaking in Tongues
Vanity
Sally Strong
Poetry
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Night Lodging
Ballad of War
Barn Raising
My Wife Gets Groped at a South Carolina Dive Bar
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2018
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Fiction
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Five Pictures
Circus City
The Trout Pool
Misplaced Emotions
Heart Murmurs
Poetry
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The Lost Child
The First Rose of WInter
Silver Gelatin
Old Men Walk Funny
Contributors
OCTOBER 2018
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Fiction
>
The First
I Wanted Ten
Disbanded
Making Amends
Spirit Guide Steve
Poetry
>
Comatose Leaf
The Bird Sings for Me
Rescue Dog
history
An Insect's Dream of Honest Concrete
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2018
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Fiction
>
Drowning in Joy
Incident in Laboratory 612-B
Across the Bed
Crying is Forbidden
Sebastian
Poetry
>
Petroleum, An Investment Opportunity
I Brought the Wrong Words Back
At the Dock Bar
At the Holocaust Museum
Being
Sindur Tree
Roadside
Contributors
AUGUST 2018
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Fiction
>
Inferior Animals
Coming Up, Falling Down
Microcosms Wherever The Earth Says Ahh
A Serenade
Traffic
Poetry
>
Quicksand
my friend, the writer
The Doctor's Daughter
It Isn't Home
Contributors
JULY 2018
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Fiction
>
Five from Alan Humason
At the Corner of Piss & Puke
A Soldier's Story
Grandmama's Flowers
A Slice of Apple Pie
Poetry
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Africa
Yardbird
Lost in Translation
Pluck the Delphinium
Climate Science
Contributors
JUNE 2018
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Fiction
>
The Bad Shit
Making Amends
Vox Humana
False Dawn
Honey and Vinegar
Poetry
>
The psalm of the unbroken
Surviving Modern Thermopylae
A List of Things to Be Discovered
When I Thought of Leaving
A Huntress' Arrows
"I'm Sorry"
Contributors
MAY 2018
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Fiction
>
Trails
Origin
A Second Birth
A Man of So Much Peace
Camp Intruder
Poetry
>
For Millay
Ephemeral Art
Healing Poem # 12
Goyathalay One Who Yawns
Fifty Percent Cotton
Sunkist Kisses
Contributors
APRIL 2018
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Fiction
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Cousin Tony
Sweeper of the Blue Star
The Right to Hold Her
This Perfect Distance
Here's How
Poetry
>
Drad-Dog
Career Day in Third Grade
Two by Christopher Brooks
Lost in Translation
my pal Morry
Contributors
MARCH 2018
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Fiction
>
Lama and Elephants
Lucky
Promises
Wandering Monsters
Hummingbirds
Poetry
>
Bloody Mary
Guy Next Door
Weather
Grease Poet
Profit and Loss
Haunting Thoughts
FEBRUARY 2015
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Fiction
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Dipso Facto
Souvenirs
>
MARCH 2015
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Fiction
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Huntington
The End of Spring
Lulu's Choice
The Drummer
Poetry
>
Planting the Sacred Turnip
Trespassing Fondly Enough
Good Morning Gulliver
Issue 79 - The Silver Surfer
People Who Live Above Stores
Lemon Underwear
Twenty Years of "Nobility of Blood"
Plague of Frogs
>
Poetry
>
Bedlam
It Doesn't Matter What People Think
Bingo
Anniversary Poem
Small Italian Town Embraces Wind Power
The Tetons
Empty Your Pocket
If Only a Thousand Heartbeats
Empty Boats
On Writing an Obituary
Kansas
Mexican Street Children
War Story # 116: Tom Brady Look-Alike
Hiroshige: Near Komakata
After Reading the Master I Stay Inside
Contributors
Lulworth
Summer Day
ATM
Contributors
Homecoming After Self-Exile
Contributors
JANUARY 2015
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Fiction
>
Wakefield
Dealth
Water in the Well
Dive
Inside Voices
Poetry
>
I can't help but think about it.
Contributors
DECEMBER 2014
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Fiction
>
Almost Haiku
The Girl With the Sunflower Yellow Hot Rod Limo
Horn-Rim Modern
The Red Box
My Shower Curtain
Poetry
>
Because Cars
At My Grandfather's Cabin Ontario, Canada 1985
Wood Stove Starling
Going home
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2014
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Fiction
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Esperanza
Mother at the Bar
Time's Up, Mr. Wolf
A Poor Man's Purgatory
The Magic Hour
Poetry
>
Bad Penny
Essence
Ghost
Threshold
Minimalism
Contributors
OCTOBER 2014
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Fiction
>
Sentencing Day
A Lucky Son of a Bitch
Letters to Jennifer
Thelma
The Truth
Poetry
>
Fingers Leaving a Loose Woman
Your Love, a Broken Van at the Corner of Oxford and Grove
New Apartment
Polished Nails
Halloween
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2014
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Fiction
>
A History of Simple Faints
You Don't Put No Fuckin' Fear in My Heart
Every Twin Dreams Alone
The Nature of Light
There Are No Words
New Day Rising
Poetry
Contributors
AUGUST 2014
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Fiction
>
New Girl
Glenn Gould Mistaken for Glenn Gould
Mushrooms
In Her Shadow
Status Update
Poetry
>
Under what boughs
Thru Damp Fields Perfumed with Oak Leaves
Tuscan Sun
The Dolls
Seizures
Contributors
JULY 2014
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Fiction
>
If Not for the Wolves
Evacuation
Allspice
The Oldest Resort
Yachting in Brooklyn
Dancing on Miz Ives
Poetry
>
July 1973
Worse Things
Insomnia
Dilation
>
Ash Bore
Contributors
JUNE 2014
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Fiction
>
Manatee Gardens
Lift
Fisher Out of Water
Sunset
What I Want
Buff Was In
Two Sibyls
Poetry
Contributors
MAY 2014
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Fiction
>
In a Bakery, Without Air
Two by Jay Merill
Bangkok
The Kinsman Ridge
U-Turns Are Not Permitted
Poetry
>
Yesterday, we ate black locust flowers
Hide
R&R
Untitled
shop lifting
What's the solution to war?
Contributors
APRIL 2014
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Fiction
>
Yes, We Do
Bear Among the Dogs
Spectrum 13
Illyria
Telling the Parents
Poetry
>
Flood Stage
Mama's Visit
Viet
That I Could Have a Mental Illness
Pools of Pixels
American Dream
We Are the Children
Contributors
MARCH 2014
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Poetry
>
Bite My Shoulder
Ode to My Ass
Primal Pleasure of Paint
When She Heard the Man
As the Sun Grew Large in the Glass Shapes of the Door You’d Always Known
As You Spoke
Fiction
>
The True Story of Valley Forge Fries
Caught
Ilonka's Haggadah
We Were Children Then
Perpendicularity
Essays
>
Fresh Pressed Despair
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2014
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Fiction
>
169 Paperclips
The Girl Who Ate Oranges
Without Borders
The Caretaker
Defending the City
Carl's Four O'Clock Appointment
Poetry
>
A New York Lust Trip
Born in the African Slums
The Return
from a shattered bottle, roses
Where the Day Goes
married
Magnetic
Uses for Ashes
Five Tanka
Contributors
JANUARY 2014
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Fiction
>
Golem's Melody
All We Have
A Stove's Promise
I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It
All the Lonely People
After the Fire
Poetry
>
Bronx
Aubade
Winter Moons
In Snow
Zen Lunatics, Beatniks, and Freaks
Essays
>
Question For the United States of America
Contributors
DECEMBER 2013
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Fiction
>
The Goat Thief
Dancing Girls
The Diary Farm
The Lost Art of Listening
Infidelitous
Poetry
>
Since She Took Her Life
South Street, Philadelphia, Friday Night
Rainy Day Sale
After Happiness
Springtime on Stage
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2013
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Fiction
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Riding the 7:10
Strip Mall Apothecaries
Move
Milan Carl Liskart, Coalman
An American Original
Poetry
>
The Bloodletting
Karen's Gift
Weird Mother Dream
Losing to a $2.50 Bottle of Cabernet at the Library on a Thursday Evening
Bus Stop
Contributors
OCTOBER 2013
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Fiction
>
Suite 57
Bicentennial
End of the Beginning
Repast
Sheitels
Poetry
>
On Not Having a Child
The Diagnosis
Janis Joplin at Monterey Pop, 1967
Papercuts
Machine
The Potter Said
Coming Home
Essays
>
Court Date
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2013
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Fiction
>
Dill
Falling
Eagle View Haven
The Asterisk Ring
Someday
Pain
Poetry
>
Solo Dancer
Morning
No Running in the House
Question on the Mountain
the shakes
Arthur
Essays
>
The Gift
Contributors
AUGUST 2013
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Fiction
>
Their Hands
Three Guest-Friends
Lockdown
Without the China
Scotch Tape, Butcher Knife, Gas Oven: Mr. Winkler’s Suicide or a Part to Play
Poetry
>
No One is Here
Crohns I
Never Again
From Time's Square to Grand Central
Muddy
Essays
>
Fish Mox
Contributors
JULY 2013
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Fiction
>
Watching, Waiting
Extracts from the Journal of Lance Corporal Joshua D. Heller USMC
Fein in Treviso
Home Beautiful
Daylight was so Dazzling
Letters from a Young Poet
Poetry
>
No One Sleeps
Process
new ears, new skin
1676 Rose Villa
The Slow Drive by Taber
Do not define me
Contributors
JUNE 2013
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Fiction
>
Deluge
The Book of Guilt
Seeing Pop
Spies
Nora's Trial
The Man Without a Story
Poetry
>
Love Comes
Ahhh
The Once and Future Ex
Where Pigeons Sleep
Confessions of a Cutter
Want Ad
Essays
>
Safety Plan
Contributors
MAY 2013
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Fiction
>
Hunters and the Hunted
Afghanistan Trilogy
In the Company of Crows
Matt
A Monkey's Nephew
Beautiful Raven
Poetry
>
Recess, Science, Social Studies
Village Roots Community Garden
Early Morning Train
The Loveless Marriage
Two by Sandi-Michelle Thompson
Essays
>
Primal Screaming
A Face to Die For
Contributors
APRIL 2013
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Fiction
>
Fog Music, 1981
To Hold
Shadows of Ourselves
Expiation
And I Asked the Gypsy
The Sour Smell of Pain
The Clock
Poetry
>
Two by Lori Lamothe
City Morning
Tuscany
Oblivion
untitled
On Admitting my Mother to the Nursing Home
Two by Sandi-Michelle Thompson
Contributors
MARCH 2013
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Fiction
>
Paris on Passyunk Avenue
Ferris Wheel
No Pancakes
Blood and Rain
Eye Contact
Ships Passing in the Night
Poetry
>
Who will come to save me now?
2 by Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue
To Myself
The Resort
The Oracle
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2013
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Fiction
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Sweet the Sound
One Oh for Tillie
Crisis Hotline
Dirty Old Man
Lost Dog
Now and Then
Poetry
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Mother Approaches the Border
Knife in a Small Room
We sleep like snakes,
merciful darkness
I'd Like to Be
Contributors
JANUARY 2013
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Fiction
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A Wide Day
Counting Proper
The Fire Next Time
Quotes
It's All Very Satisfying
Rain Check
Poetry
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If I Had Known
The Harvard Moon Does Not Shine
South Side, Chicago Town Whore
Korea
Meditation
Contributors
DECEMBER 2012
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Fiction
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Two Victims
Liberty Turns
New Balance
Zora: Hysteria or Histamine? -- A Case Study
Poetry
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questions to the panel from don henley
Tainted Whore
A Ribboned Road Trip Through Wrong
tradition
Fetal on the Floor
Revelation at Supper
Two Hands
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2012
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Fiction
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The Stranger's Constellations
Criminals
In the Beginning
The Night Office
Alice
Poetry
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As I Lay Dying
At a Table
From "Pink Umbrellas"
The Asylum Walls
8
Faith
The Far Side of Heaven
Contributors
OCTOBER 2012
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Fiction
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Fly to the Moon, Amigo?
Butchie's Pecans
A Drop of Cruelty
The Long Drive Home
Cuppa Soup
Poetry
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Disembarking
Alter Ego
Prism
Sunday, 4:14 a.m.
This Poems Needs a Refrain
And tomorrow
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2012
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Fiction
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Girl, Too
Liberator
Fantasy Football and the Mistake of Unity
In the 100th Year of the War
Lying About Mustaches
Plans
Poetry
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tree
No Gin in my Ginsberg
The Back Field
Fullness of being (identity theft)
Quick, before
You Might Not Think This Story's Important Now, But
Contributors
AUGUST 2012
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Fiction
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High Noon
Veterans' Day
Flying to a New City
Habits
Average Joel
Winter Popsicles
Poetry
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Thoughts of a Woman in a Black Dress in the Park
Two Poems by Barbara Brooks
setting sun
Aftermath: A Photographic Exhibit of Female Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsis in Rwanda
Envy
Yes
Essays
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Bin Laden is Dead
Meredith
JULY 2012
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Fiction
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Contributors
Hand Upon the Brow
Shama and the Ghost
Are You Ready Now?
Bar Harbor
Sandinista Homes
The World's First Literary Fade-Out Ending
Poetry
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When They Used to Call Me Heartbreaker
Two by Crawdad Nelson
Stem
Essays
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Fossilized
Equemen, Men in Spanx and Other Advancements
Contributors
JUNE 2012
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Fiction
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That Morning Sun Comes Rising Up
This Is My Montauk
Flashback
Waiting for Annie
Poetry
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Fool
Starbucks
2 by Gregory Gunn
Pursuit
2 by Joey Nicoletti
2 by Matthew Woodman
Untitled
Essays
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On Reactionary Thug Rap, and the Black Lumpenproletariat
Contributors
MAY 2012
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Fiction
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The Bread Machine
Late September
Goodbye Green and White
Maybe Tomorrow
Poetry
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Emerald
I Brew in Broth
Elegy
I'm Getting My Act Together
21st day after
untitled
2 by David M. Pitchford
Contributors
APRIL 2012
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Fiction
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All the Places to Hide
Grey Matter
Hopelessly Sane
Properties
The Gate Keepers of Kosovo
Poetry
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Thunderstorm
Two by Jeff Burt
Meet Me at Barney's
Two by Sarah Rehfeldt
Two by Mary Shanley
Contributors
MARCH 2012
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Fiction
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Housekeeping
Rowing the Beach to Shore
Fast Trains
Butterflies
Dogman
Poetry
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Bowl of Petunias
Mystic Dawn
Two by Kenneth P. Gurney
Looking for the soul bone
Essays
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Shadows on the Wall
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2012
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Fiction
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Saving Aisha's Spiders
Three Vignettes
Bird Lady
Honoring Mike
My Brother Never Came Home
Poetry
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Wanted
PreHistoric
Peripeteia
Beside Her
Thumbtacks
Essays/Editorials
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Oh Brother
Contributors
JANUARY 2012
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Fiction
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Red
The Photographer
All Broke
This is Not a Romance
Ulysses in Old Cairo
Patina
Poetry
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Five Thousand Days
Loving You
Through Silence
American Happiness
Unidentified Female Outcry
Contributors
DECEMBER 2011
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Fiction
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Sad Lucretia
Corpus Christi
The Birthday Present
The Ice
Things About Callie
Poetry
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The Collector
Blue Tapestries
Beyond Your Yard
Chief Lake
Quilted
A thousand twangling instruments
Essays/Editorials
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The Tao of Flitcraft: Some Thoughts on the Ancient Art of the Near-Death Experience
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2011
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Fiction
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Evolution, Accelerated
Over
Paradise
Opportunity
Friction
Poetry
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The melting pot
When the water recedes
Request of a Manchu King
Cleaning the Kids' Room
Naked Ballerinas in Flight: Dream of a Dancer in Six Acts
Contributors
OCTOBER 2011
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Fiction
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Goose, it's a Danger Zone
The Plot
Bingo Man
Settling for a Continental Breakfast
Scene of the Crime
Poetry
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Five by Lyn Lifshin
Two by Bruce Lader
Two by Chris Crittenden
Two by Doug Draime
I Forget Your Name -- Benjamin Larsen
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2011
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Fiction
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Two Characters Caught up in Chapel Town
Writer in Residence
Crossing the River Acheron
Another to the Multitude
Poetry
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Four by Lyn Lifshin
The Sadness of Gardens
Two by Corey Mesler
Three by Joan McNerney
Three by Janeen Rastall
Essays
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Missing in America
Contributors
AUGUST 2011
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Fiction
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Lake Effect
Bars
To Create Such a Thing
Esopus
Space For Rent
Poetry
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Five by Lyn Lifshin
Frankenstein by Clinton Van Inman
Paper pigeon by James H Duncan
Two by Caroline Misner
Song for a Massachussetts Fish by Amit Parmessur
Contributors
JULY 2011
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Fiction
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To a Dreamer, Night's the Only Time of Day
Heartbeat in Shadow
True Bee
Taking Care of Business
Billy Burroughs' Prediction
Poetry
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Two by Charlie Hughes
Two by Jim Davis
The Light Finding his Way
Two by John Repp
Meadows in Vermont
Contributors
JUNE 2011
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Fiction
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Do I Call You Dad?
The Manicurist
Silver Bells and Tiny White Lights
Luv (Summer of 1988)
Weird Sister
Poetry
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Three by Simon Perchik
Fish Eyes
Two by Corey Mesler
Two by Amy Billone
Contributors
MAY 2011
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Fiction
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Young Mr. Moyen
Grace
Cal's Last Call
Happy Times
Scar
Poetry
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2 by Lyn Lifshin
Dream of Fitchers Fogel
Speech as Flight
Menage a Trois
2 by Danielle Hanson
Negotiating
Be Still and Know
Lynn of the Tender Locks and Lovers
Contributors
APRIL 2011
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Fiction
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Tom and Marian
Home From the Dead
Bread and Coffee and Cigarettes
Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Poetry
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Where she saw God.
St. Jude's Guilt
2 by JohnTustin
2 by Lyn Lifshin
Inside Herself
Poem #27
Everlasting Life
On Frozen Ground
Contributors
MARCH 2011
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Fiction
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Suite Populaire Americaine
The Best Part of the Day
Discarding the Remains
The Dead River
Fifty Dollar Legs
Poetry
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Following the Thread
Good Morning in the Woods
Unveiling the Mind
Two by Henry 7. Reneau, Jr.
dandelions
Waiting for the Cops and After
Two by Britney Lipton
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2011
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Fiction
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Remember My Name
The Sky Over Virginia Beach
Waiting
The First Thing an Artist Should Learn (excerpt for ORGASMO)
The Campfire
Excerpt from THE VIRTUAL LIFE OF FIZZY OCEANS
Poetry
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On the Back Page
Midwest Metamorph
Neo-Platonic Mysteries
Some Information to Start With
3 by Judith Dickerson-Nelson
2 by Lynn Lifshin
Becoming a Man
Contributors
JANUARY 2011
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Fiction
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Small World
Disconnected
Ashes
Thin
Buried Things
Poetry
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Drifting
Cannonballs and Flowers
the earth stands
Nails in My Hair
Consignment
I/You/Her
Rafting the Middle Fork of the Salmon River
A Random Act of Kindness
The Quarter-Century Visit
Asking For It
Contributors
DECEMBER 2010
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Fiction
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Micah Unmapped
Half Groundhog
Esther and Virginia
Bear Country Discomfort
Inventing Aster
The Answer Man
Poetry
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Ursa Rumba
Geologic or Painterly Stasis
Unusual Lover
Through Blue Indiangrass
Weekday Painter
After The Storm
Ghosts, an Outdoor Cafe
Approbations 731; Approbations 732; Approbations 733
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2010
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Fiction
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Touch and Go
Le Caprice
Things That Never Come
Grandma,
Judith
The Young Man Who Said He'd Never Eat Chocolate Again
Essays/Editorials
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What Level Destruction
Contributors
Fiction
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Big Alabama and the New Girl
We Measure All This Distance in Longing
In Search of the Perfect Former Communist Beach Town
A Dedicated Customer
Dinner Party
OCTOBER 2010
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Essays/Editorials
Letters to Nonexistent Editors
Contributors
POETRY
Drad-Dog -- Robert Beveridge
Career Day in Third Grade -- Mike Wilson
Two by Christopher Brooks
my pal Morry -- milt montague
Lost in Translation -- Ahmed Elguindi
Blue Lake Review