TABLE OF CONTENTS 

POETRY

Change of Seasons by Mignon Ariel King When the coffeepot speaks Click Click /Hiss, and you can’t tell if it’s saying...	The New Modern Loneliness by Robert Brown I rightclicked an icon / to open in a new tab / and...
Five Ways to Make a Man by James Davis 1. / By dunking a boy / in a bay of breast milk, one may...	Toad's Kisses by Erin Ann Thomas On the pad of my ring finger, the brain / of a small burrowing animal...

 

FICTION

Down the Aisle
by Gail Louise Siegel
Marguerite is in the apple aisle. It’s her plan to keep the doctor
away, eat well, melt fat. She longs for a Honeycrisp, but they’re out
of season. She wanders from pyramid to pyramid...

Nighttime Rituals
by Matt Mok
"I don't want to.  I won't," she said as if she had a choice.  It would
have been cute if she hadn't stamped my foot while she said it...

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Seeing Things As They Are
by Jacqueline Doyle

My optometrist likes to talk.

He perches on the edge of his
wheeled chair, rolling back and forth between the examination chair and
his built-in work station, eager to discuss the ins and outs of vision...

 

ARTWORK

by Jethro Gillespie
Father and Son
Girl in Tree
Self-Portrait
Throne 1
Pruner
Modern Saint
Man With Branch