Editor: Beth Mead - From the Editor
Managing Editor: Elizabeth A. Zerkel
Assistant Editor: Patricia Feeney, Eve Jones
Cover Design and Journal Layout
Christopher Mead
Cover & Interior Photographs:
Christopher Duggan
Editorial Assistants
Tara N. Brewer
Linda Briggs-Harty
Jennifer C. Cowgill
John Cunningham
Courtney B. Frey
James M. Frey
Lindsey Hill
Heather Kemper-Hussey
Allison Hayley Konczal
Jessica Muckerman-Presson
Stacey Remley
Craig Vaughn
Elizabeth A. Zerkel
Fiction
Joel Hans — Dig
Dana Kroos — The Forces of Flight
Mike McLean — Wrong Side Up
MaryEllen Beveridge — High Diving
Concetta Ceriello — Everything in this House Reminds Me of You
Eliza Horn — Mangoes in Georgia
Poetry
John-Michael Bloomquist — A Romance to the Morning
Valentina Cano — The Phoenix
Angela Rydell — Developing Nightmares
Rocco Lungariello — Beautiful, Five Day Affair
Jeffrey C. Alfier — Lower East Side Cabaret, Passing a Street Musician with an Acoustic Guitar
Lisa Haag Kang — The Space Between Us, On Freedom
Laura Merleau — Death With Ash Exponentially Increasing Not Long After
Ruth Bavetta — Rapunzel
Andrew McSorley — Winter’s Ritual
R. Flowers Rivera — Trying to Explain, Jellyfish Heart
Jim Bainbridge — A Winter Night in Amsterdam
Paul Hostovsky — Sharing the Orange
Robert Randolph — Before
Shana Youngdahl — Between Sisters There is a Small Flower that Crumbles, The Fox Comes Upon Me In the Empty Lot
Essays
Jennifer Ochstein — Prayer Walk
Susan Hodara — Still in the Air
Anne Freeman — The Peach Tree
Amanda Bramley — Breathing Under Water and Other Playthings
Gaia Attardo — Dead Dog