Summer 2015
Cover Photography: Samantha Peterson
Cover Design: Alex Hughes
Chainsaw Lament
Lowell Jaeger, Montana
Mysteries & Mayhem
Peter Bradley, New Hampshire
The Things We Once Were
Clare Paniccia, Missouri
Every Fire Has a Face
Walter Bargen, Missouri
The Real Hell
Claire Scott, California
Troy, Missouri 2001
Mallory Bochantin, Missouri
Goldilocks Passes Out
Marjorie Power, Colorado
Taking Back the Night
Rachel McGuinness, Indiana
Every 28 Days
Fallon Ashley, California
Reconsidering the Moon
Ronald J. Pelias, Louisiana
Hiking in Lolo National Forest
Ann Elizabeth Huston, Utah
Spring Knocks at the Door
Alamgir Hashmi, Pakistan
Drowned in a Sea of Corn
William Jolliff, Oregon
Necessary
Jack Lindeman, Pennsylvania
Manmade
Clayton Adam Clark, Missouri
Weeding in August
Daye Phillippo, Indiana
Thorns
Kendall Dunkelberg, Mississippi
To a Sparrow
George Young, Colorado
Turnings
Doug Bolling, Illinois
A Deer’s Death
Clair de Lune
David Armand, Louisiana
Family Cookout
James K. Zimmerman, New York
Snapshot of My Parents
When My Mother Died
Lucy Adkins, Nebraska
Zane’s Number
David Sapp, Ohio
Housebound
Dividing the Curio Cabinet
Thomas Alan Holmes, Tennessee
Calling
Thomas N. Mannella III, New York
Notes on the Staff
Joanna White, Michigan
Calligraphy
Allison Huang, New Jersey
Lunch Time Atlas
Naoko Fujimoto, Illinois
The Western
Benjamin Nash, Texas
Time at the Ferry Building
Mumbling their rosaries
Zara Raab, Massachusetts
Arrhythmia
Jesse Graves, Tennessee
Physician
Phoenix
Minotaur
Jared Pearce, Iowa
Standing Alone
Eugene Dubnov, England
Making the Picture
Noel Conneely, Ireland
Least That I Am
Jeff Hardin, Tennessee
Hunger Turns Heavy
James Grabill, Oregon
The Absurd Construction of Days
John Sibley Williams, Oregon
White Potatoes
Gary Metheny, North Carolina
Evolving Desire
Clifford Paul Fetters, Florida
Over the Horizon
Korkut Onaran, Colorado