Volume 14, Issue 1

Volume 14, Issue 1 :: March 2014

Toasted Cheese, Onion and Sour Cherry Chutney Sandwich with Salad
Photo Credit: Alpha/avlxyz

Featured Writing

Self-Portrait
Poetry by April Michelle Bratten

Two Poems
Poetry by Kathryn Jacobs

North Claiborne Street, Ninth Ward, New Orleans
Poetry by Erren Geraud Kelly

Three Poems
Poetry by Marisa Marinelli

A writer recalls his childhood Halloween
Poetry by John Roth

Gun
Flash by Rick Bailey

Edwina
Fiction by Skye Allen

The Robin and the Red Thread
Fiction by Terry Barca

Drought
Fiction by Eileen Gonzalez

Cultural Anthropology
Fiction by Tony Press

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Editor’s Picks

Bellman’s Pick * For Sale
Poetry by Marisa Marinelli

Beaver’s Pick * Callas the Great
Flash by Rupprecht Mayer

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Contest Winners

Dead of Winter Writing Contest
Judged by Baker & Billiard
Theme: It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature
Word Range: 3,000–4,000

First: Mother
by J. Chad Kebrdle

Second: Mother’s Nature
by Lynn Bauman-Milner

Third: Flea
by Stephen Lawson

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Columns

Candle-Ends: Reviews

As We Refer to Our Bodies by Darren C. Demaree
reviewed by Shelley Carpenter

The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors

Brick by Brick
by Theryn “Beaver” Fleming

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