“Check Point” by Greg Clary
Poetry
Michael Flanagan
Besotted
Tony Gloeggler
Boy Scouts
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Overdose
George Wallace
I Drove West Because of You
M.J. Arcangelini
Shauna Dies Repeatedly
Paul Koniecki
My First Ride
Kevin Ridgeway
Deadbeat Clairvoyant
“Grille” by David J. Thompson
Francine Witte
My First Mother
John Sibley Williams
Youthful Offender
Linda Rocheleau
The Dollar Store
Greg Clary
Dollar Store
Jason Baldinger
From a Motel 6
Bill Gainer
A Little Noise
Rusty Barnes
What’s in My Pocket?
“Green Trailer” by Greg Clary
Barry Peters
Introverts
John Dorsey
Wrestling With the Bear
Mike James
Who Opened for Ghost Nipples?
Matthew Borczon
Brad
Steve Jorgenson
The Indigenous People of Suburbia
James Benger
Halloween 1988
Tiffany Buck
Matchsticks, Anyone?
“Interior” by David J. Thompson
Glen Armstrong
The Man Was Crying under an Apple Tree, and There Was a Cat Watching Him
Wesley Scott McMasters
Bathtub Madonna on the Friday before Good Friday
Brianna Kehrer
Garden
William Taylor Jr.
The Glory
Robert Walicki
There Are No Heroes In The War
Untitled by Brianna Kehrer
Victor Clevenger
A Piece of “500 Million U.S. Dollars”
Cheryl A. Rice
Ugly
Anne Graue
Billboards and Barbed Wire
Linda McCauley Freeman
Dinner at the Lucky Noodle
Kelsey Bryan-Zwick
Your Mouth is a Cutting Board — Mine is a Knife
George Perreault
Two Friends From Long Ago
David J. Thompson
For His Pain
“Bait Shop” by Greg Clary
Richard D. Houff
Things That I’m Afraid Of
Angel Zapata
Marriage is an Audio Recording of Somebody Gasping
Sarah Kezman
Virginity
Scot Young
Just Me and a Beat-up Harmonica
Mark James Andrews
So I Lit a Fire
J. Lester Allen
The Type of Rain that Falls around Here
R.M. Engelhardt
The Gift
Micky Shorr
Not My Gift
“LeSabre” by David J. Thompson
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