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Summer 2009

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Poetry and Flash Fiction

Abha Iyengar
Alison Eastley
Barton Smock
Bridget Gage-Dixon
Charles Reis
Cheryl Snell
Daniel Crocker
David Jordan
David Lawrence
Dennis Mahagin
Doug Ramspeck
Henry Louis Shifrin
John Sweet
Kathryn Jacobs
Lois P. Jones
Margaret Babbott
Mather Schneider
Richard Lighthouse
Roger Pfingston
Roy Lewis
Simon Perchik
Tim Kahl
Tony Leuzzi

Featured Artists
Julie Steiner
Don Shaeffer

Steiner Interview
by Alex Nodopaka

Editors

Jennifer VanBuren
Jai Britton
Alex Nodopaka
Patrick Carrington

Mannequin Envy in memory of poet and artist Douglas Gamrath

Barton Smock

 

comics

 
it was our dog
killed
 
the neighbor’s dog.
 
hours
my brother and I
 
we washed its mouth and cried.
 
dad came home early. 
black as
 
stove.
 
mom
whatever she had to put on
she put on
 
for dinner.
 
we ate.  we were a hungry lot.
 
they have another dog, mom said.
 
dad
he just howled
and pulled her to his lap.
 
he put his hands all over her dress
which she had worn the week before
to a wedding.

Barton Smock lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and four children. He often calls his brothers on the phone in the a.m. to recommend, again, that they watch the movie Shotgun Stories. He has most recently been published at thefurnacereview.com, inertiamagazine.com, and in caesura.

Deadline for Consideration in Fall 2009: September 1.

We accept submissions all year long, however, we read them only during the month before publication, so please do not get upset if you do not hear from us right away.