TABLE OF CONTENTS Issue 18

Boggs Fiction Contest Winners

Carrie Esposito – First Place
Fairy Tales and Freedom

Kerry Jones – Runner-Up
Last Night at the Starlight

Fiction

Joe Baumann
Inferno

Lilliana Arteaga
War at Breakfast

Kevin Camp
Basketball Player in Semi-Retirement

Shayla Frandsen
Eternity Road

Rick Donahue
Red, Right, Return

Jeff Richards
Blowout

J Dan Francis
The Cabin in the Valley

Emma Uriarte
Summer of Ants

Jaylon Brooks
House Call

Rosella Marie Moreno
The Haunt and the Hunt

Antoinette Constable
Something Blue

Julia Conover
Twitter Comes to Suburbia

Templeton Moss
The Truth About Dad

Amani Attia
Apple of My Eye


Poetry

Geo Staley
Mrs. Fictel
When We Couldn’t Talk

John P. Kneal
One-Sided Looking Glass
Pillow Talk
Evil

Lynn Glicklich Cohen
Privation
I Would Probably Leave Again

Carol Louise Munn
Conditional Tense
At the End of the World
Poetic Intervention

Sue Scavo
Apology
Line of Communication [Subrogate]

Audrey Rose
an oral fixation

Jessica Manack
Wonderland
Sweet Quantifications

Leisha Douglas
Religion
Autumnal Grammar

Jay Udall
Ant Theology

A.E. Schulz
Swan, Feather, Wing

Heather Kenealy
Fifteen-Year-Old Lens
The Far Side of Mist
Recognition

Jean M. Kane
Rather
Doing The Mess Around (1)
Doing The Mess Around (2)

Bonnie Naradzay
Personae at the Day Shelter for the Homeless
Sehnsucht

Susan Roney-O’Brien
Old Soul
Gargoyle

Mark Katrinak
Ornithology

Alison Hicks
The Party
Celestial Influences

Aditi Bhattacharjee
We exist ungrammatically
Spring miracle

Stephen Campiglio
Myrtle Street

Rimas Uzgiris
Now What

Jennifer Campbell
Song For the Glass, Which is Totally Empty
Falling

Christine Andersen
On Blowing Soap Bubbles
The Chase
Universal Language

Claire Hsu Accomando
New Year Fireworks
Awaiting the Rat

Jo Angela Edwins
Parasites
Ode

John Kucera
The Rust of Hurt

Evalyn Lee
So Many Tears Swim Past
I Am Sorry

Marjorie Power
hedge, bush

Fred D. White
Old-House Ghosts
Migrant Angels

Les Bares
Returning from the Secnd Hand Record Shop

Sarah Stern
Under the Sugar Maple

Dave Morrison
Disappearing

Kevin D. Norwood
Why I Do Not
Checkmate

Jill Ruscoll
Seeing Summers at the Lake

George Freek
Sonata for the Dead (After Li Shangyin)

Bart Edelman
On Finding Someone Who Loved You
Pacific Surfliner

John Krumberger
Bicycling as a Form of Prayer

David Reuter
Dead Air  

Creative Nonfiction

Kristen Craycraft
Interview with Devin Grayson

Joseph Szalinski
Noodles
Haft-Ass

Kathy Berger
Dear Cyclist

Roderick Priestly
Reflections


Text and Image

Jen Cooney
NOW that’s what I call TEEN ANGST: greatest hits from the 90s till today

Ben Miller
How Capitalism Did End