Volume 13, Issue 2 :: June 2013
Photo Credit: Kelly Bone
Featured Writing
Waiting on Grandfather
Poetry by Jeff Bernstein
My Ex-Girlfriend Wouldn’t Let Me Celebrate Halloween
Poetry by Ron Riekki
The Star Ferry
Poetry by Tim Suermondt
Dead Letters
Poetry by Diane Webster
The Janitor
Flash Fiction by Julie Harthill Clayton
In the Books
Flash Fiction by Anna Moriarty Lev
Late
Fiction by E. Branden Hart
Identity
Fiction by Brittany Michelson
Suckers
Creative Nonfiction by Melissa Leavitt
Qingyundian Vignettes
Creative Nonfiction by Hannah Samuels
Contest Winners
Three Cheers and a Tiger Writing Contest
Judged by Bellman
Topic: Write a mystery in which the
“There was an Old Man of New York”
Edward Lear limerick plays an important role.
Word range: 2,250–2,350
Gold: Derry’s Down, Deary
by Alison Reeger Cook
Silver: Rare Books
by Ellen Wright
Bronze: Marginalia
by Jen Julian
Honorable Mention:
“A Source of Innocent Merriment” by Elisabeth Setzler
“Mr. Oldman and His Magical Fork” by Trevor Brunsink
Columns
Candle-Ends: Reviews
Consonant Sounds for Fish Songs by Traci Chee
reviewed by Shelley Carpenter
One Night in Bridgeport by Mark Paxson
reviewed by Bob Zeanah
The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors
The Storytellers
by Stephanie “Baker” Lenz