Table of Contents


Views and Mechanics
Publisher's Note
Editor's Note
Review of African Psycho
Review of The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Film Review of "Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind"
Writing Contest Results
Creative Nonfiction
Back Pain...Who Cares?
By Michael D. Burg
Knit Two Together
By Jo L. Gerrard
Skin Odyssey
By Holly Leigh Jacobson
Leaves in the Wind
By Molly Molloy
Hydroglyphics
By Phaedra Greenwood
Poetry
Indiana Poem
By Michael Lee Johnson
Inspire Me, Ms. Muse
By Tony Zurlo
A Poem Forgot
By Gabrielle Rabinowitz
Yours
By Sheila McLaughlin Sikorski
Confetti
By Alan Girling
Correction:
Drive Me Home Again
By Anne Cammon
Fiction
Scaffold
By Joseph Bathanti
For the Taking
By Anne Leigh Parrish
The Artistic Impulse
By Johanna Lipford
Justifiable Brew Aside
By Barbara Anton
Stopping at the DQ
By Susan White
Cover Art
Bright Red
By Dee Rimbaud
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Confetti
By Alan Girling

They were our secret
the pictures I took of you
in the bedroom
way back when
my gaze was more acceptable
desired even
until the day
you sat on our bed
and tore them
to tiny shreds:
confetti for the
church steps
we never climbed.