Spring 2020: Vol. 48, Issue 2
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note: A Statement About Our Name by Jason Kyle Howard
FICTION
Bethany Holmstrom
Pile of Feathers
Mary Alice Hostetter
Traps
Vanessa Van Besien
Milk
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Rebecca Hazelwood
Secondhand Stories
POETRY
Jenn Blair
Beersheba Springs Assembly
After the Prodigal Returned
Hellbender
The Flood
Paper
L. Renée
Gone
Fish Fry
Jae Dyche
On Birds
Elegy as a Railroad Watch
Axis Mundi
Lisa M. Kendrick
Match Girl
Jawbreaker
Alison Terjek
Leaving the Mountains
Elizabeth Gordon
Almost Heaven, or Mixed-Race Road Trip Following the Fall of Saigon
INTERVIEW
BOOK REVIEWS
The Book of Daniel (Aaron Smith) by Savannah Sipple
Appalachia North (Matthew Ferrence) by Emily Masters
The Ash Family (Molly Dektar) by Donna M. Crow
Planted by the Signs (Misty Skaggs) by Sylvia Woods
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia (Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, Eds.) by Melissa Helton
COVER PHOTOGRAPH
Justice Undone—Untitled #14 by Raymond Thompson Jr.