Issue #9

Open Call

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor: Choosing the Light

Letter from the Nonfiction Editor: Thoughts From the ICU

Henk’s Choice | Hanne Jensen
Borderless Dreams | Zinaria Williams
Echoes | A.L. Gordon
Lullaby for the Dead | Julia McDonald
Funeral Songs | Raymond Wlodkowski
At the Gas Station | Tiffany Avery
In a Near Future, 1968 Again | Paul Rousseau
Too Many Broken Hearts | Catherine MacKenzie

Server Not Found | Megan Wildhood
Magnetic Resonance | Monica Anderson
In the Chillest Land | Cristina Legarda
A Dreadful Case | Barbara Ridley
Breaking Free | Alice Shaw

Cover Image: The Spine 2 (and more) | Emanuela Iorga
Nature Photography | Jim Wojno
Darkness into Light | Maroula Blades
Trek | Jerome Berglund
Walking Photography | Alan Bern

Letter from the Poetry Editor: A Requiem’s Saving Grace

What Holds | Christine Himmelfarb
Golden Shovel Poems | Cathy Barber
My Son Studies the Stars, Smoke,
++++and Johns Hopkins Sues Patients… | Marceline White
Inheritance, After the Diagnosis,
++++and Return to Water | Sarath Reddy
A Poet Homeschools, Week 2: Biology
++++and Coast Guard Beach… | Kasha Martin Gauthier
the first thing she lost | David Duncan

Do You See the Stars?, Drag Me Through the Mess,
++++and Dressed | Jessica Mehta
Lodged in My Throat |Emma Conally-Barklem
Endangered Persons
++++and Endangered Persons, Part Two| Sara Simone Barenfeld
When I Tell the PA That I’m Shaking… | Ron Riekki
Deaf and Dumb | Paul Hostovsky
Painkiller Seeker | Dara Kalima
Because of the Wolf | Kendra Leonard
Love Lost and Found | Yuan Changming