Summer 2018: Vol. 46, Issue 3

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Chris Holbrook
Surface Level

Lois Wolfe
Maxims in Winter

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Hal Crowther
The Tennessee Kid

POETRY

Nicole Stockburger
After Planting Okra in Midsummer
Full Flower Moon

Jeff Hardin
The Wrecker Lot
Being in Your Own Mind

Eric Janken
Halm Ave, Los Angeles

Bryce Berkowitz
Summertime Chi

Savannah Sipple
What We Tell Ourselves
[Jesus Rides Shotgun]

Mary Jane White
Rivalry
Summer: With a Magnet
Forsythia

Susan O’Dell Underwood
God as Edie

David Salner
Swallow Falls
Chaff

Jane Miller
Resignation
Reckoning

Kelsey Solomon
Ars Poetica, Appa-latch-uh

INTERVIEW

A Conversation with bell hooks and Fenton Johnson

CRAFT ESSAY

Rebecca D. Elswick
Magical Realism with an Authentic Voice

BOOK REVIEWS

Emily Masters
Jaws of Life by Laura Leigh Morris

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Bottle Rocket by Josh Ness