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, “Inevitable Surprises: An Interview with Eric Puchner on Writing, Teaching, and the Future of Short Fiction”

Fiction

• Joshua Ferris, “It Would Be Life—”
• Brandi Reissenweber, “This Kind of Heat”
• Jacob M. Appel, “The Orchard”
• Tammy Walters, “Stephan”

Poetry

• Lynn Xu, “[Language Exists Because]”
• Megan Harlan, “Atget’s Paris”, “The Blue Ballet”
• Kristen Holden, “A Green Place”
• Carolyn Guinzio, “Report”
• Elizabeth Winder, “Where Is That Salty Place Where X Gives up Her Subtlety”
• Rhiannon Allee, “Something to Remember,” from Helen’s Hands
• Charity Ketz, “Irradiate”, “Shroud”
• Sean Thomas Dougherty, “After Hearing Some Woman…”
• Alison Stine, “Blame”
• Janice N. Harrington, “Horace Pippin’s ‘Victorian Interior,’ 1945”, “If She Had Lived”
• Joseph Starr, “Domestic Scene with Lost Heirloom”
• Jennifer Merrifield, “Oh Orgasm, Oh Operator: Hello, Hello”, “American Proper”
• Daneen Wardrop, “Matchmaker’s Insomnia”, “I Walk the Sidewalk”
• Alison Powell, “Flat Clean to the White Moth”
• A. Mary Murphy, “[as the little sister]”
• N.M. Courtright, “Delta”, “As Real as Is Awake”
• Rae Gouirand, “The Sands”, “The Ash”
• Margaret Young, “Dandelions”
• Erika Kulnys-Brain, “Las Noticias en Traduccion, Caracas”
• Justin Vicari, “The Statue’s Dream”

Art

• Robyn O’Neil:
  • “Oh, How the Heartless Haunt Us All” (cover art)
  • “As My Heart Quiets and My Body Dies”
  • “Take Me Gently Through Your Troubled Sky”
  • “As Darkness Falls on This Heartless Land”
  • “My Brother Holds Tight My Feeble Hand”
• Jon Petro:
  • “The Tent Makers”
  • “A Graciousness at War”
  • “Erin’s Jesus”
  • “The Pioneer the Wagon Painting”