CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Suzanne Supplee
The Simple Act of Caring

Marvin Shackelford
That Kind of Fun

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Molly McClennen
Landscapes

Larry Bingham
What My Father Heard

POETRY

Jeff Hardin
A Shared Space
Without Ceasing
Just Off the Road

Jane Craven
The Importance of Elsewhere

Katharine Kistler
Anatomy of a Mouth

Rita Sims Quillen
The Mad Farmer’s Wife Learns of Forest Bathing
Exeunt

Connor Poff
Endometreosis Packs a Lunch and a Thermos of Coffee
The Steelworker’s Calf

Andrew Alexander Mobbs
Lessons from an Orca: Grieving
Three Days

M. Daniel McCrotty
The Baffling
Thirst
A Fairytale

Thomas Alan Holmes
A Poet Offers Her Confession About Grazing in a Grocery Store
Aubade

INTERVIEW

Margaret Renkl by Jason Kyle Howard

CRAFT ESSAY

Robert Erle Barham
Bearing Witness

BOOK REVIEWS

Emily Masters
Anywhere But Here by Michael Croley

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Cutting Apples by Candace Mullins