Issue 1

INAUGURAL ISSUE
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Poetry by Denise Duhamel, T.J. Beitelman, Peter Borrebach, Alan Britt, Chloe Nimue Clark, Mary Christine Delea, Jonathan Escoffery, Jennifer Hearn, Roxanne Hoffman, Samantha Knapp, Laura Merleau, John Riley, Whitney Scott, Julia Meylor Simpson, Rae Spencer, Gabriela Suarez, Robert E. Wood, and Changming Yuan. Fiction by John Dufresne, Jessica Barrog, Joe Clifford, Tim Curtis, Russ Hicks, Yia Lee, Sherry O’Keefe, Jon Page, Terry Sanville, and John Solensten. Nonfiction by Kim Barnes, Andrea Askowitz, Nicholas Garnett, and Russell Reece. Art by Andrew Abbott, Alex Alderete, and Ernest Williamson III. Interviews with Sean Kenniff and Dan Wakefield.

FEATURED AUTHORS

• Kim Barnes
• John Dufresne
• Denise Duhamel

POETRY

• Girl Talk, by Denise Duhamel (FEATURED AUTHOR)
• Touch the edge and then, Julia Meylor Simpson
• Ars Poetica, by Jennifer Hearn
• Harbor Song, by Peter Borrebach
• Waiting, by Changming Yuan
• Nostalgia for a House in Turda, Romania, by Gabriela Suarez
• My Grandmother Becomes a Young Widow, by John Riley
• The Dishwasher, by Jonathan Escoffery
• Heading Home in a Storm, by Julia Meylor Simpson
• Souvenir, by Laura Merleau
• Trees of New England, by Mary Christine Delea
• Staircase on a Gas Storage Tank Shadowed in Uncharred Paint, Hiroshima, by Peter Borrebach
• Autumn, by Rae Spencer
• Choosing, by Roxanne Hoffman
• White Cotton Pillowcase, by Samantha Knapp
• An Aubade for the African Queen and Its Big Bang, by T.J. Beitelman
• Sonny in St. Thomas, by Whitney Scott
• Raining in the Suburbs, by Alan Britt
• Nameless Unearthed, by Chloe Nimue Clark
• Backlot, by Robert E. Wood

NONFICTION

• The Wages of Sin: A Personal History of Economics, by Kim Barnes (FEATURED AUTHOR)
• All That Glitters, by Nicholas Garnett
• Under the Covers, by Andrea Askowitz
• Come on, Harold, by Russell Reece

FICTION

• Escape Velocity, by John Dufresne (FEATURED AUTHOR)
• How to Be a Great Minimum Wage Retail Worker with Zero Sanity, by Yia Lee
• The Marquis de Sade and Me, by Joe Clifford
• George’s Revenge, by Russ Hicks
• Dancing in the Dark, by John Solensten
• Cry for Me, by Jon Page

SHORT SHORTS

• Escape Velocity, by John Dufresne (FEATURED AUTHOR)
• The Manual, by Jessica Barrog
• Monster Love, by Tim Curtis
• Instructions on How to Tell the Mercenary’s Story, by Sherry O’Keefe
• The Royal Blue, by Terry Sanville

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS



• Interview with Dan Wakefield, author of Creating from the Spirit
• Interview with Sean Kenniff, author of Stop *Effing Yourself


VISUAL ART

• Eileen, by Alex Alderete
• A Medication I Could Take, by Andrew Abbott
• Somebody Watches Over Me, by Ernest Williamson III

A Medication I Could Take, by Andew Abbott