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Featuring: This issue features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by William Aarnes, Anne Casey, Suzanne Cody, William Doreski, Katy E. Ellis, Kim Farleigh, Rosalind Goldsmith, James Grabill, Greg Headley, Tara Hun-Dorris, Jerry T Johnson, Erin Kae, Ashton Kamburoff, Candice Kelsey, Delaney Kochan, Kasandra S. Larsen, Catherine Roberts Leach, Kathy McConnell, Scott McDaniel, Allen Plone, Arthur Plotnik, Andy Posner, Big Rand, Mary C. Rowin, Joanell Serra, John Sierpinski, Dave Sims, Haydée Touitou, Tony Tracy, Viviane Vives, Joel Wayne, Tara Stillions Whitehead, Nan Wigington, Mike Wilson.