Table of Contents Special Features Robyn O’Neil & E. Tyler Lindvall, “As My Heart Quiets and My Body Dies, Take Me Gently Through Your Troubled Sky” Ryan Effgen,...
Table of Contents Poetry Leslie Williams, “Notes on the State of Virginia, 1826” Donna Steiner, “How the Ocean Reaches the Inland Heart” Sam Witt, “Waterfowl...
Table of Contents Poetry Allison Cobb, Three poems from the series One-foot Christopher Davis, “Impotence” Susanna Rich, “ventriloquist”; “possession.” Catie...
Table of Contents Fiction Deborah Bayer, “Gliding Past Mackerels” Pauline Mortensen, “The Gledhill Foot” Poetry Michael Atkinson, “Expatriate Story” Patricia...
Table of Contents Virginia Downs Poetry Award The Virginia Downs Poetry Award was established by the family and friends of Virginia Downs (1916-1984), poet and George Mason graduate. It honors...
Katie Willingham 1. BBC News, March 5th: Scientists publish the most detailed brain scans ever taken. Images of the first sixty-eight subjects take up about two terabytes of computer memory, enough...
Christian A. Winn Yesterday the boy I pretend is David phoned. “Hi, Mom,” he said. “Happy birthday.” It was not my birthday, and I told him so, as I always do. “I miss you...
Jenny Xie I learn about Dustin’s death through Facebook. I am at work, taking a lunch of grilled chicken and broccolini at my desk, a diet prescribed by my pregnant Trisha, who now insists that I...
Gail Griffin 1. Some memories seem to rise on their own from nowhere, faces slowly appearing in deep water. This is how Gloria came back. One day in my middle age, I remembered that I had had a...