Volume 14, Issue 1 :: March 2014
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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
Editor’s Picks
Bellman’s Pick * For Sale
Poetry by Marisa Marinelli
Beaver’s Pick * Callas the Great
Flash by Rupprecht Mayer
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
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