Volume 16, Issue 4 :: December 2016
Featured Writing
Emily as an Attempt at Gun Control #17
Poetry by Darren C. Demaree
ChicagoProtestsMarch2016
Poetry by Rose Knapp
Pulling the Tooth
Poetry by D.W. Moody
Real Man Howls
Poetry by Timothy Pilgrim
Punctuation and Puncture Wounds
Flash by Isaac Buckley
Tex-Mex Special
Flash by Lori Cramer
Panhandling Uncle Perry
Flash by Travis Keys
Eventually Air
Flash by Michelle S. Lee
A Family Tradition
Flash by Tim Love
The Candle
Fiction by Nancy Christie
Looks Like Death
Fiction by William Locke Hauser
After School
Fiction by Dacia Price
Editor’s Picks
Broker’s Pick * Dry Rope
Poetry by Timothy Pilgrim
Baker’s Pick * Delicacy
Flash by Timothy Bastek
Beaver’s Pick * That Yellow Sun
Fiction by Jay Merill
Contest Winners
Three Cheers and a Tiger Writing Contest
Judged by Broker & Boots
Topic: things at one location (or dream state, past/future life, situation)
are the same, and yet different, from one that’s familiar.
Word Range: 1,500–2,000
Gold: Little Big Man Speaks
by Robert Walton
Silver: Jeanie in a Bottle
by Valerie Lunt
Bronze (tie):
Why the Lapwing Laughs
by Christina De La Rocha
&
The Error in Desire
by R.J. Snowberger
Columns
Candle-Ends: Reviews
Buried Gold by Bill Lockwood
reviewed by Shelley Carpenter
The Last Cadillac by Nancy Nau Sullivan
reviewed by Bill Lockwood
The Snark Zone: Letters from the Editors
Strive Toward the Light
by Stephanie “Baker” Lenz