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Issue #10   


(released August 2010)


**Featured writer in this issue: Heather Ann Schmidt.


**Poetry in this issue:

Lisa J. Cihlar: "Collecting Honey from Wild Bee Colonies..."
Sam Cobbler: "Virgin/Whore/Mother/I"
Timothy Essex: "Wart on the End of a Large Pile"
Joanne Fairies: "small heron"
Ronald Fischman: "Pink"
Amylia Grace: "The Silence of Secret Things"
Vivian Hesse: "One Trick"
Abha Iyengar: "The Way Out"
Mary Ocher: "A Professional Weeper"
Farida Samerkhanova: "Mankind's Huge Mistakes"


**Fiction in this issue:

Rumjhum Biswas: "Flight"
Rachel Mangini: "A Bird With One Eye"
Faith Mingus: "to endear; insinuate; and speak herselves"
Deborah Reed: "Human Interest"
Tim Raveling: "East"


**Challenge winners for staircase flash fiction:


Sophia Argyris: The Myth of Family
Brigette Yanes: The Staircase Ate My Little Brother
Dennis E. Noonan: Killing Moon
C. Martinez: The Scapegoat
Donna Vorreyer: Excuse (Cleaning the House After She is Gone)
Joanne Faries: Don't Look Down
Faith Mingus: unkempt class:
Lydia Swartz: Hungry Condo
Dan Powell: Piece by Piece