Volume 13, Issue 1 :: March 2013

Photo Credit: Renée Suen

Featured Writing

Three Poems
Poetry by Alison Eastley

Three Poems
Poetry by Gail Hosking

Three Poems
Poetry by Karolina Manko

Two Poems
Poetry by Jiawen P.

Two Poems
Poetry by David Polochanin

Chicken Feathers
Fiction by Ron Arnold

Always Another Straw
Fiction by Tony Press

Exchanges
Fiction by Alex Shishin

Suitcases
Creative Nonfiction by Matthew Zanoni Müller

Editor’s Picks

Beaver’s Pick * Winds
Fiction by Robert Herzog

Contest Winners

Dead of Winter Writing Contest
Judged by Baker and Billiard
Theme: Heart and Soul

First: The Perfect Gift
by Greg Osadec

Second: Inversion
by Steven Till

Third: The Dangers of Living Vicariously
by Stephen Lawson

Columns

Candle-Ends: Reviews
The Rules of Gentility by Janet Mullany
reviewed by Theryn Fleming

The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors
Unqualified Praise Only, Please
by Theryn “Beaver” Fleming