Volume 91, no. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2024)
Contents
Editors’ Note
William Caraher and Maren Schettler
Fiction
Farm Girl
Meredith Macleod Davidson
The Audition
John Yohe
The Best Open House I Ever Had
Craig Chambers
The Pleasure of the Lord
David Bradley
The Screen
Matinee
Kareem Tayyar
Pennies from Heaven
Constance Renfrow
Compromise
Carol LaHines
Street Signs
Peter N. Van Den Bosch
How to Start Dating Again
Kevin Fitton
Essays
Concertino
Kimberly Groninga
Body Hair
Trinity Montoya
Fruita, Colorado
Nicholas Dighiera
Three Desert Water
Richard M. Rothaus
The Ending of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Ubervilles
John G. Peters
Domestication
Brooke Moen
Blood
Eric J. Miller
Doghood Accounts
Ella Quinlan
Poetry
To a Captive Coyote
Cell Gannon
Lazaretto
Nancy Story
Eclipse
My Parents’ Wedding
Rose Bedrosian
The Coyote
Clell Gannon
Editor
William Caraher
Fiction Editor
Gilad Elbom
Poetry Editor
Paul Worley
Assistant Poetry Editor
Kelsey Woodburn
Nonfiction Editor
Sheila Liming
Art Editor
Ryan Stander
Book Review Editor
Sharon Carson
Copyeditor
Andrea Herbst
Editorial Board
Eric Burin
David Haeselin
Andrew Harnish
Joseph Kalka
Adam Kitzes
James Mochoruk
Sheryl O’Donnell
Richard Rothaus
Brian Schill
Kate Sweney
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