Volume 17, Issue 4 :: December 2017

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Featured Writing

Beneath the Surface
Poetry by Cassie Creley

Happiness
Poetry by David Polochanin

Five Poems
Poetry by Wern Hao See

Alone with Lilacs
Flash by Lauren Dennis

Last
Flash by Michelle Dotter

Dissolve
Flash by Gaynor Jones

Crow
Fiction by Bim Angst

Doctors Without Borders
Fiction by Christopher Heffernan

The Dare
Fiction by Gwenda Major

Fire Exit
Fiction by Phillip Mitchell

Contest Winners

Three Cheers and a Tiger Writing Contest
Judged by Broker & Boots
Topic: the de-escalation of a potentially violent situation.
Word Range: 3,000-4,000 words

Gold: Not If We Lie
by Gail A. Webber

Silver: Project Savant
by Erin McDougall

Bronze: Mars
by Anila Syed

Columns

Candle-Ends: Reviews

Fermentations by Salvatore Marici
Reviewed by Shelley Carpenter

Nikolai Delov by James Dante
Reviewed by Bill Lockwood