Volume 12, Issue 2 :: June 2012
Photo Credit: Memphis CVB
Featured Writing
Emily as a Tire’s Hot Squeal
Poetry by Darren C. Demaree
Five Poems
Poetry by B.T. Joy
The Inside of an Eighth-Grade Girl
Poetry by Kira Moore
Three Poems
Poetry by Nathaniel Murphy
Four Poems
Poetry by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
Future Historians Look Back
Flash Fiction by Jeffrey Bakkensen
An Aversion To Blue
Fiction by Philip Dodd
All the Money in the World
Fiction by Michael S. Wolfe
And He Remembers
Creative Nonfiction by Daniel Beaudoin
Crying Cancer
Creative Nonfiction by Hayley Cooper
And Another Thing
Creative Nonfiction by Nathan Evans
Editor’s Picks
Broker’s Pick * A Photograph of Emma
Poetry by John Grey
Beaver’s Pick * Concrete Love
Poetry by Marchell Dyon Jefferson
Baker’s Pick * Echoes
Fiction by Jennifer Hurley
Contest Winners
Three Cheers and a Tiger Writing Contest
Judged by Bellman & Bonnets
Topic: Write a mystery in which yarn bombing plays an important role.
Word Range: 1550–1650 words
Gold: What Would Madame Defarge Do?
by Melynda Sylvestre
Silver: Mother Earth Breeds Nothing Feebler than a Man
by Arwen Dewey
Bronze: Pumpernickel Blue
by Eleanor Ingbretson
Columns
Candle-Ends: Reviews
The Toucan Magazine
reviewed by Theryn Fleming
The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors
The Google Ate My Homework
by Amanda “The Bellman” Marlowe