POETRY

Against Beauty by Cheryl Hicks on mornings like this / when the air stays cool / and the sun burns...	Imitation by Sarah J. Sloat April, the buds unfurl minute fists; / dogwoods mottle the law...
Alarm and No Alarm by John Grey Alarm clock's rattling like crazy / and I'm thinking of all the things / that clatter could be...	Stew by Amy L. Sargent A few hours of brewing we swell / like noodles / teeped in broth, the celery...
Fat Girl by Kristine Ong Muslim Jazz is wriggling into a pair of pants. / The gospel of tango rules...

 

FICTION

Cakes
by Jim Noonan
Gerald
opened the red plaid lunchbox on his lap and stared at its contents --
two thick pieces of cake sheathed in wax paper and plastic wrap and a
blue thermos of cold fresh milk...

Dots
by Tania Hershman
Where the first dot would go she didn't know. The first dot determined the
second, and so on. If the first was promptly in the middle of the white
page...

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Second Coming
by Stephen David Grover
The
day I returned home from two years of living in South Korea as a
missionary, I made my way to the grocery store and walked briskly to
the bread aisle...

 

ARTWORK

by Jen Babcock