Volume 22, Issue 3 :: September 2022

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Featured Writing

Two Poems
Poetry by Timothy Pilgrim

Three Poems
Poetry by Ivy Raff

If We Hold Each Other Tight
Flash by Michael J. Brien

I Don’t Want to Read Your Lips
Flash by Hugh Cartwright

Bravery
Flash by Sarah Kelleher

Chopping the Vegetables
Fiction by Swetha Amit

Initiation
Fiction by Kathryn Bashaar

The Photo
Fiction by Victoria Kemsley

Remembering Beth
Fiction by Sarah Turner

Editor’s Picks

Beaver’s Pick * Drive
Creative Nonfiction by Laurel Doud

Contest Winners

A Midsummer Tale Writing Contest
Judged by Beaver
Theme: The End
Word Range: 1,000–5,000 words

First: The Hardest Part
by Jessica Upper

Second: Grow
by Tierney Acott

Third: August in the Time of COVID
by Laura Sweeney

Honorable Mention: Ambushed
by Adam Heenan

Columns

Candle-Ends: Reviews

Hollowed by Lucy Zhang
Reviewed by Shelley Carpenter

Was Am Going by Ruth Ticktin
Reviewed by Bill Lockwood

Forced Entry? by Bill Lockwood
Reviewed by Ruth Ticktin

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