CONTENTS

Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Jeremy S. McQueen
What Lies on the Mind

Devin Murphy
Pilgrims

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Amelia Fowler
Geographies of Pluto

Tessa McCoy
A Queen in My Blues Jeans

POETRY

Carol Hobbs
Caribou on a Slab of Plywood in Our Garden

Her Days

Kathleen Driskell
Laundry Woman

What I Learned in My Mother’s Kitchen
Evolution

Richard Hague
Fish

Paul Nelson
Crow

Winter’s Raven

Terry Ann Thaxton
When Those Days Come

Ryan Harper
Nativity Scene on the Courthouse Lawn

Lydia Copeland Gwyn
In My Window

Ace Boggess
Power Outage

Noel Smith
To Know a Man Truly

Keepsake

INTERVIEW

Kathleen Driskell by Jason Kyle Howard

CRAFT ESSAY

Maurice Manning
Bless Its Heart: The Irony of Appalachian Literature

BOOK REVIEWS

Greta McDonough
Mot: A Memoir by Sarah Einstein

Beth Newberry
Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the Forbidden from Contemporary Appalachia by Adrian Blevins & Karen Salyer McElmurray, eds.