CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Chelyen Davis
Second Coming

Shaun Turner
Funeral March 

Jolene Barto
When We Are Clay Again

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Karen Salyer McElmurray
Attics

Gail Tyson
Dark Spirits

Jennie Ziegler
Keystone

POETRY

Christie Collins
A Study of the Infinite
Myth
Letters to the Living

Jeremy Michael Reed
The Tennessee River 

Jeff Worley
For Those of Us Who Are Easily Lost

James Owens
Carnage

Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Black Magic Gun
The Proper Order of Things

Lynnell Major Edwards
We decide to hang a man and then don’t 
Settlers II

Evan Gurney
Whiskey
Weeding

Isabella DeSendi
Sussex County

Elision

Jamie Elliott Keith
Any Tree

Lujain Almulla
On Being Tongue-Tied, and Nothing Else

Rhonda Lott
Ode to Dolly Parton and Crossword Puzzles

Pauletta Hansel
Coal Town Photograph
The City
When You Ask Me to Tell You About My Father

Leah Angstman
How to be a woman in these times

INTERVIEW

Jesse Donaldson by Emily Masters

CRAFT ESSAY

Dana Wildsmith
I’ve Been a Foreign Lander

BOOK REVIEWS

Jessica Cory
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash