The publication of this journal is made possible in part by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.

The editors also wish to thank the following people and institutions: Robert DeMott, Marsha Dutton, Roderick McDavis, Daphne Metts, Joseph McLaughlin, and Dinty Moore. Special thanks to the Creative Writing Program and Department of English Department at Ohio University for their extraordinary support in recent years. >>>

Volume 15 

Cynthia Reeves / Naming the Dead

Elizabeth Bloom Albert / Pick

E.R. Carlin / φη

Genevieve Betts / Regeneration

Scott Bowman / I am scared of the following . . .

Mark Brazaitis / Eight Endings to the Same Story

Alison Christy / On the Fabric of the Human Body

Erika Eckart / Whale Songs

Elizabeth Ellen / More or Less

Joseph Gastiger / The Way I Fell

Ray Gonzalez / Ten Objects

Daniel Gutstein / The Yield

Sean Hill / simple faith

John Holliday / Relaxed, Settled, and Thoroughly Secure

Michael Jauchen / The Eagle’s Still My #1 Choice for the National Bird

Ruth Moon Kempher / Sharing the News with Madam X / Sleeping with Madam X

Rauan Klassnik / Shades of Green

Jason Larson / Say It That Way

Peter Moore / Vegan Shawarma

Stefani Nellen / Past and Future Dwellings

Scott Provence / How to Time-Travel

Dana Sonnenschein / Rodin’s Persephone / Rubens’ Girl

Merry Speece / Here

David Starkey / Q & A: Eternity

Ben Stein / Tending Body

Alexandra van de Kamp / On the Origins of a Cold Bowl of Cereal

Ann Walters / How Thunder Stepped into the Sky / John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River Blues

Mabel Yu /General Relativity

An Interview with Joe Bonomo

Zakes Mda’s Cion / Review by William Breeze

Jean Phillipe Toussaint’s Monsieur and Camera, plus The Customer is Always Wrong / Review by Jeff Bursey

Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence / Review by Brian Elliott

James Lewelling’s Tortoise / Review by Zach Kessler

Veronique Tadjo’s Red Earth / Review by Kathryn L. Nuernberger