Issue 4

Fiction

Andrew Boden | Along the Malecón
Alicia Hilton | Death Taught Me to Live
Douglas W. Milliken | Growth Unencumbered
Antony Paschos, translated by Dimitra Nikolaidou and Victor Pseftakis | Pinebark
Michael Phoenix | Cherries

Essay

Michael Backus | Distant Smoke
Dian Parker | Inside the Earth
Marisca Pichette | Lineage of Fire

Poetry

Dargie Anderson | Tonight, On the Way Home, the Steam from the Coal Plant
Larry Blazek | Zombie Dogs
Jane Boxall | Kayak Haiku
Bethany F. Brengan | Love Is Simply Attention Paid Out Over Time
Rachel Cleverly | Love Bugs
Douglas Cole | No SOS On
Seth Crook | Swim Now, She Says & Our Neighbour Meets An Otter Pup
John Paul Davies | The Oak Tree
Kristian Doyle | An Only Before-and-After
Ifoghale Eguwe | Moon
Stacey Forbes | Stonefish Lullaby
Emily Franklin | On the other side of the busy road & After Seeing a Photograph of Flamingos
Ruth Goring | Raging & This place
Heather Hamilton | Standing at Shore, Waiting –
Arielle Hebert | Ugliest Orchid in the World & Backyard Universe
Matt Howard | Purple
Tricia Knoll | To Grieve in Shifting Sun
Janet Landman | Deep Structure
DS Maolalai | Thin body, clumsy wing
Sarah McCartt-Jackson | Clay Lick
Maeve McKenna | Secret Season
Jess Mc Kinney | Wych Elm & Baby’s Breath
Thomas Mixon | Versus
David Ishaya Osu | Daily
Rory O’Sullivan | The Baptism of John Moriarty & July in Garryduff Woods
James Owens | Page From an Immigrant Diary & The Ogre
Caleb Parkin | Witches’ Knickers & Unknown Distance, Moderate Difficulty
Tania Runyan | The Reasons I Became a Western Chorus Frog
Annette Skade | The Seaward Side
Anna Teresa Slater | the amateur’s guide to managing things
Melissa Perri Smith | Winter Rains
Sam Smith | Perilous
Cherry Smyth | In the Cave
Dana Sonnenschein | Wolf Sketchbook
Jaime Speed | Why I propagate plants
Maya Weinberg, translated by Yoni Hammer-Kossoy | Outside the City
Ivis Whitright | temperate
Megan Wildhood | Pile Up
Kristin Camitta Zimet | The Record

Cover art: Evelyn Broderick
Cover design: Rachel Doolin