Issue #2

(released July 2008)


**Featured writer: Renata McCormish. 4 poems including "Chung Tea Ceremony," "The Package," "The Stained Glass News," and "You have Left Something Beautiful." Also includes an exclusive detailed interview with the poet. And a brief look at her book, Rimbaud's Echo.

**Poetry in this Issue:

Patricia Carragon, "Frozen Kisses"
Mercedes Dawson, "Ink Stained"
Courtney Elmlinger, "Caught Along the Veins of a Sugar Maple"
Barry Graham, "Keeping Your Promises: to Robert Frost"
Carol Lynn Grellas, "My Mother's Piano"
Alicia Hoffman, "Majestic"
Doug Holder, "Private Dining Under a Blouse"
Steffen Horstmann, "Broken Ghazal"
Samantha Ledger, "Tie Me to the Oak Tree"
Thomas Michael McDade, "Call Dreams Kites"
Jillian Parker, "Somewhere in the Silence"
Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, "Birch" and "A Cure for the Water Trapped Inside Your Body"
Gillian Prew, "The Gnawing Sorrow"
S. P., "Release"
Ray Succre, "I've Seen the Burning Day Rise Too Soon"
Diana Norma Szokolyai, "Skeleton of a Whale"


**Fiction in this Issue:

Marla Cordle, "The Scheming of Kirby Bain"
Melissa Mann, "Touch Sensitive"
Ashley McAtee,, "Storm Chasers"
Josie A. Okuly, "One Tin Soldier"
Jillian Parker, "Apricot Marmalade"
Pablo Vision, "Bad Touch"

**Essays in this Issue:

Jason Hardung, "I am the Blue Center Light"
Wanda Morrow-Clevenger, "Indiscretions"
Jillian Parker, "Return of a Prophet"


**Flash Fiction Contest Winner:

Marla Cordle, "Contemplation of an Artist"

**Two literary reviews:

Parris ja Young's River Angels; River Saints.
Art Noble's The Sacred Female.