Issue 12

FICTION
Presidents, Space, Medical Miracles by Lorie Kolak (Contest Winner)
Flash Fires by Philip Levitas (Honorable Mention)
Thc Cure by Kathleen Cohn (Honorable Mention)
Polyglot by Wendy Marcus
Tough Cookie by Alanna Schubach
Recoil by Trenton Streeting
Lily of the Valley by Emma Wunsch
The Little Gray and Black Box by Oaz Nir
The Encounter Complex by Kate Evans
Her Last Week in Their Paradise by Elaine Schear
NONFICTION
Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice by Sarah Liu (Contest Winner)
You Never Know by Pamela Hull (Honorable Mention)
Sisters by Sheila Kohler
Traces by Annette Gendler
POETRY
After the Light by Berwyn Moore (Contest Winner)
Salvation by Joanna Pearson (Honorable Mention)
Cold Kiss by John Kay
The Christmas Patient by John Kay
On His Knees by Wendy Mnookin
Insomnia by John Calderazzo
Blind Man Watching by Kristine Ong Muslim
Alopecia by Douglas Haynes
Ode on Porcelain by Anya Silver
I Want to Work in a Hospital by Cortney Davis
Blessed Thistle (Cnicus benedictus) by Sarah Hannah
Watching You Nap Beneath a Faded Quilt by Angela Armstrong
I Imagine I Answer Your Letter by Alison Jarvis
Blood Test by Judith Harris
Dames Rocket by Elaine Terranova
Legacy by Barbara Oken
The Mortician’s Mother-in-Law Says Goodbye by Rigoberto González
Poem to My Right Hand by Susan Varon
Transcendence by Susan Rich
Apostasy by Seth Abramson
EXTRA
Foreword by Danielle Ofri
Cover Note