C O V E R   A R T

Ned and his Brother

with essay, "Soul Brothers"

ORNA BEN-SHOSHAN

E D I T O R I A L   B O A R D

Editor/Publisher

COLIN MELDRUM

 Assistant Editor

MICAH UNICE

Readers

MICHAEL JAMES WILSON

ZACH BUSCHER

RHIAN WALLER

JANET McCLASKEY

CAROL DORF

BRANDON IBARRA

Apospecimen Award Winners

Selected as especially noteworthy contributions to this issue

Fiction Award:

The Bluebird

J. S. SIMMONS

Poetry Award:

Tale of the Avian Saint

WILLIAM KEENER

P O E T R Y

Man Without a Wishbone

PRARTHO SERENO

Subterranean School

GEORGE SELI

Water Babies

BRYAN MURRAY

Another Poetic Funeral

LUCA PENNE

In the Emily Dickinson Museum

MARGARET WALTHER

Winter Solstice, Yosemite Valley

DAVE SETER

The Kitchen God's Mistress

ANINDITA SENGUPTA

Sideshow Serpentina: the Last

of the Split-Tailed Mermaids

NICELLE DAVIS

metallic

SARAH LUCILLE MARCHANT

Resurrection of a Doll

from a Pop-up Book

KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM

At Night I Hear Animals

Behind the Moon

ROB COOK

In Which a Taste for Tongue

is Eloquently Debated

BRENDA MANN HAMMACK

Apple Parable

MARY MARIE DIXON

Weekends

REBECCA JAMES

The Sky I Think Is Up There

MATT DENNISON

Sigilism

JOHN MYERS

The Earth Suit

MICHAEL JAMES MARTIN