ISSUE FIVE features 8 short stories, 2 works of nonfiction, 36 poems, and an essay in photos ("The Twin Cities A Century Ago" excerpted below). Poet Brandon Krieg and Fiction Writer Stephen Graf received the $150 Editor's Prizes for this issue. Read the FULL BIOS of all the authors.



FICTION |
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Alison Baker |
I'll Meet You There |
Randall D. Brown |
The Celebrity |
Stephen Graf |
Hadamard's Billiards |
Denton Loving |
Casting Out |
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich |
Stuck |
Caitlin Militello |
The Flower of Summer |
Brian Shawver |
Ostriches |
Donna Trump |
Weight Shift |
NONFICTION |
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Ed Fischer |
Matterhorn Dreams |
Mark Spitzer |
State Record Gar |
POETRY |
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B. J. Best |
egg toss |
fingernails |
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pollen |
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sudden prayer for my mailbox |
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shooting star |
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Jerah Chadwick |
Song: Tohono O'Odam Basket |
Brent Fisk |
Blizzard of '78 |
CB Follett |
Dream Water Boy |
Je Ne Sais Quoi |
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outside, calling |
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Bart Galle |
Emblem |
Your Painting of an Iris, Unfinished |
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Peter Harris |
Whitman's Widow in Springtime |
Alamgir Hashmi |
Earthworms |
Brandon Krieg |
Squaw Fish |
Prodigal |
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Inversion Among the Fish Counters at Bonneville Dam |
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Eli Langner |
The Koi of Nijo |
Naton Leslie |
And Bring Your Lover |
Emlenton Outfitters |
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Susan Lilley |
Swing |
George Looney |
No Statues of Blind Poets |
Ode to English Landscapes |
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The Hieroglyph of the Horizon |
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Martina Nicholson |
Dancing Together |
David Oestreich |
Birthing Myths |
Pseudotriton Ruber |
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Robert Parham |
March |
Carlos Reyes |
Ode to a Fossil Fern |
Nick Ripatrazone |
Oars |
Ann |
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Oklahoma in Ten Minutes |
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Mildew, Minnesota |
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A. D. Winans |
The Demise of Jazz in North Beach |
Robert E. Wood |
Castello di Gorizia |
Water Music |
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