Issue 34
FICTION
Atrophy by Lauren Erin O’Brien (Contest Winner)
Bamboo Forest by Faith Shearin (Honorable Mention)
Full Buck Moon by Sheryl Louise Rivett (Honorable Mention)
Goat by Jason Brown
Labor by Brendan Missett
Responsibility by Alok A. Khorana
Tithonus by Craig Curtis
The Second Son by Ivan Prashker
Pharaoh Hounds by Stefani Nellen
I Love You So Good by Randy Shelly
Leviathan by Jennifer Lee
NONFICTION
Cancer, So Far by Elizabeth Crowell (Contest Winner)
Portraits by Janna Minehart (Student Winner)
The Reluctant Sexton by Martha Wolfe (Honorable Mention)
Drawing Blood by Laura Johnsrude (Honorable Mention)
POETRY
Throat by Gabriel Spera (Contest Winner)
The Game of Catch by Noah Stetzer (Honorable Mention)
Brief by Muriel Nelson
In the Lobby at Johns Hopkins by Ellen Aronofsky Cole
Modes of transmission by Patrick Donnelly
Ars Poetica by Lisa Dordal
Tree Surgeon by Alecia Beymer
In the Herbert Irving Cancer Pavilion by J. Gerard Chalmers
West to East by Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren
Microscopic Photos of Human Tears by Ann E. Michael
Premature Plans and the Sight of Him by Cathy McArthur
Corn Makes Me Suicidal, I Think It’s Karmic by Kaitlin LaMoine Martin
the one making toast by Olga-Maria Cruz
Intimate Contact by Elisavet Makridis
EXTRA
Foreword by Danielle Ofri
Book Review: “The Future of Us” reviewed by Donna Miele
Artist Statement by Seth Resnick