Volume 12, Issue 1 :: March 2012
Photo Credit: Uncle He-man
Featured Writing
11:11
Poetry by Maria Vasquez Boyd
Strawberries
Poetry by Andrea Egert
Two Poems
Poetry by Paul Hostovsky
Two Poems
Poetry by Brian Price
The Queen’s Secret
Flash Fiction by Jacqueline Doyle
Back to Comanche
Fiction by Rick Bailey
Firm Iron
Fiction by Lou Gaglia
The Messenger
Fiction by Matthew Jankiewicz
Vincent Under the Bed
Fiction by Elizabeth Buechner Morris
The Grace of Grass
Creative Nonfiction by Shaina Rafal
Editor’s Picks
Broker’s Pick * Cars
Poetry by Griggori Tyler Taylor
Boots’s Pick * The Dance
Fiction by Robert Watts Lamon
Contest Winners
Dead of Winter Writing Contest
Judged by Baker & Billiard
Theme: Skull and Bones
Word Range: 2000–3000 words
First: The Red Scarf
by Anitha Murthy
Second (tie):
Skin and Bones
by Jake Gogats
&
A Bone to Pick
by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Honorable Mention: “Osteophthisis”
by John-Michael Gariepy
Columns
Candle-Ends: Reviews
Silver and Blood by Trina L. Talma
reviewed by Lisa Olson
The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors
All Writers Are Independent But Some
Are More Independent Than Others
by Stephanie “Baker” Lenz
