TABLE OF CONTENTS
Issue 15

FICTION

Naked Barbie
Christopher C. Slomiak

Untouchable
Christopher C. Slomiak

Stereophonic
Bill U’Ren

Twenty-One
Bill U’Ren

Decorations
Meredith Sue Willis

Thought Balloons
Meredith Sue Willis

A Lesson in Fire
Chuck Augello

A Lesson in Ice
Chuck Augello

POETRY

Song of Deborah
Gerald Stern

Grandfathers
Gerald Stern

Blue Jay
Gerald Stern

Ich Bin Jude
Gerald Stern

Send Something Back
Anne Marie Marcari

I Ash My Body
Peter Patapis

Rivulet
Peter Patapis

To Formulate a Definition
Eric Pankey

What Nationality?
George Higgins

Slue
George Higgins

Fifteen
Kristen Jackson

Lisa’s Baby
Kristen Jackson

Advice From a Middle-Aged Man to His Teenage Self
Steve Westbrook

Advice From a Teenage Boy to His Middle-Aged Self
Steve Westbrook

I GO TO SEE A PLAY ABOUT COMPETITIVE
AIR GUITAR (REAL PLAY, REAL THING) AND
WIND UP FEELING SEASICK

Kevin Kantor

FEVER DREAMS (FRACTIONS)
Kevin Kantor

Aunt Jemima’s Revenge
Allison Joseph

Godot Goes to Montana
Ellaraine Locke

Abandoned Garden
Ellaraine Locke

The Grievous Math, The Revised Definitions, and The Continuing Adventures of Economic Reform
Jim Daniels

The Oxymoron of Gun Control and The Boogie Woogie of Assassinations
Jim Daniels

Spiders
Donna Pucciani

Incremental
Donna Pucciani

Easy to Say
Jason Schneiderman

Catastrophist
Jason Schneiderman

Lionheart
Dawn Morrow

Smoke
Dawn Morrow

Dirge for a Young Country
Huang Xiang

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Interview with Gerald Stern
Nancy Barta-Smith

The Art of the Chirp
Dominic Civitella

Why I Won’t Lay
Sean Prentiss

A Working Theory of Love
Sean Prentiss

For Whom?
Allen Gee

Asians in the Library
Allen Gee

Strike Talk

Asians in the Library
Allen Gee

Queens of Slippery Rock
Anna Swartwout and Brenna Waugaman

There’s a Crack in Everything
Morgan Bazilian

Recipes for Ladies Who Want to Reduce
Ellen VanWoert

TEXT & IMAGE

Boys Tell Me Things that Make Me Feel Uncomfortable
Maggie Lynn Negrete

Puntos de Referencia
Maggie Lynn Negrete

Daily Geology (2013-2014)
John Peña

Daily Geology (2018-2019)
John Peña

The Big Date
Ed Piskor