Issue 7.1  /  January 2016

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COVER ART: Scott Vogel

MASTHEAD

Editor in Chief | Kimberly Ann Southwick
Production Editor | Shereen Adel
Assistant Production Editor  |  meg willing
Layout & Design  |  Melissa Middleberg
Contributing Editor  |  Sophie Klahr
Poetry Editor | Christine Friedlander
Fiction Editor | Zach Yontz
Assistant Fiction Editor | Becca Pollock
Creative Non-Fiction Editor | Ian Carlos Crawford
Book Reviews Editor | Craig Chisholm
Readers |  Lisa Aquilino, Samantha Duncan, Melissa Jones, LaTanya McQueen, Anthony Michael Morena, Joe O’Brien. Adam Sass, Anna B. Sutton, Regina Vigil, Dylan Weir, Michael J. Wilson

SUMMER 2015 CONTEST WINNERS: 
Heather Bowlan "Dopamax" (poetry, selected by Ronaldo V. Wilson)
Lillian Ann Slugocki "Am I Anna Karenina" (flash fiction, selected by Leesa-Cross Smith)

FICTION
Michael Alessi "The Horribles"
Gail Aronson "Drawer"
Gary Joshua Garrison "Their Bodies Only Prettier"
Melissa Goodrich "Daughters of Monsters"

CREATIVE NONFICTION
Eileen M. K. Bobek "Pointillism"
J. Bradley "Knievel"

POETRY
Marty Cain "Cities Are For the Assholes"
José Hernández Díaz "The Parrot"
Tafisha A. Edwards "Husbands"
Jennifer Fossenbell "As Long As We Are Too Other"
Denise Jarrott "The Impossible Dictionary, Entry 2, Part 2: Herbarium"
Jared Joseph "You Won't Kill Me"
Matthew Mahaney two from The Plural Space
Erin Lyndal Martin "This Really Happened to David Bowie, but Let's Pretend It Happened to Me"
Billie R. Tadros "Acreage: theme and variations"

ART/COMICS
Scott Stripling "Easter Woman," a comic
Fabio Sassi "Scraps 1-5"
Irina Skornyakova "Salt," "Green Plastic," "Is/And," "Land," & "Stringy"

BOOK REVIEWS: Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake , reviewed by Craig Chisholm and xTx's Today I Am a Book, reviewed by Michael P. Adams

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