Table of Contents
Fiction
Michael Parker • Stragglers ................................................................. 7
Tobey Ward • The Guest Room ......................................................... 16
Kenny Marotta • Tomb Visits .......................................................... 29
Brock Clarke • Smart Shopper • Time Travel .................................. 51
Jon Sealy • Honk If I’m Paying Your Mortgage ................................ 55
Jade Wallace • Cryptid ....................................................................... 70
Leslie Pietrzyk • The Door of No Return ...........................................74
Eugene Radice • The Oil of Science .................................................. 80
Poetry
John Lee Clark • Nicholas Saundersson, 1682–1739 ........................ 5
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton • Questionnaire for Two Pussies ......................................................................................... 10
Maya Marshall • Poem about The Time… • Family Photo ............. 14
Robin Richstone • Switched-Baby Syndrome .................................. 26
John Sibley Williams • Fallow as That • Field Confessional .......... 27
David Colodney • Eleven Days ......................................................... 50
Gabrielle Brant Freeman • Every Western ....................................... 53
Daye Phillippo • Great Crested Flycatcher ....................................... 69
Raymond Luczak • Lunafly ............................................................... 72
James B. Nicola • She was So Good ................................................... 73
Emily K. Michael • Natural Compliance • Mint .............................. 78
Gaylord Brewer • A Little Poem to Life ............................................ 99
Rick Mulkey • A Scatalogical Scat .................................................. 101
Essays
Skip Eisiminger • “It’s Loading, Gramps”: Waiting ................... 103
Delia Steverson • Madness, Melancholia, and Suicide in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees ................................................... 108
Jeffrey Meyers • Fire and Ice: James Dickey’s To the White Sea... 124
Mary A. Gervin • Carson McCullers’ Remembrance of Things Past: Illumination and Night Glare as Memoir ................................134
Book Reviews
Hallman Bell Bryant • Victoria’s Secret .......................................... 145
Mark Powell • Ron Rash’s World of Dark Beauty............................156
Gary Kerley • “Feed Him Another Feast of Recognition”: The Legacy of Pat Conroy ............................................................. 159
Erin Gale • Lives on the Boundary ................................................. 166
Mike Pulley • Poetry and Female Survival .................................... 172
Amy Borders • A Shadow of One’s Former Self ............................. 176
David Tillinghast • Slippery Words................................................. 181
Contributors ...............................................................................185
