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Volume V
[2025]

“Inventing Stephanie” by Colleen Hummel (nonfiction)
“We’re Gonna Be All Right, Right?” by Sally Franco (fiction)
“Ralph and the Jackalope” by Louis Fiset (fiction)
“Another Summer’s Reading” by Grant Tracey (fiction)
“Never Happened” by Tom Gartner (fiction)
“The Judge’s Daughter” by Cotton O’Connell (fiction)
“Anniversary” by T. G. Metcalf (fiction)
“King Kong’s Ghost” by David Harris (fiction)
“Buckthorn Palace” by John K. Plaski (fiction)
“Things Kept” by Roger Helms (fiction)
“The Devil Is Beating His Wife” by Sarah Archer (fiction)
“Poetry—as Carpentry, as Coffee” by Dan Guillory (poetry)
“A Calculated Move” by Sylvia Schwartz (fiction)
“The World Without Me” by Jo-Anne Rosen (fiction)

Volume IV
[2024]

“On the Whale Road” [“Beowulf”] (an excerpt) by Ted Morrissey (translation)
“After Dark” by Mai Wang (fiction)
“Bluebird” by David H Weinberger (fiction)
“Apatheia” by Samuel Lawrence Sullivan (fiction)
“An Excerpt from A Journey to Al Ramel“ by Brady Harrison (fiction)
“Tameless, Unruly Animals” by Jeff Guay (fiction)
“Cold” by Terry Sanville (fiction)
“Barbara” by Ian Inglis (fiction)
“Train to West Ruislip” by Yura Riphyak (fiction)
“You Do You” by Ivan Terrence (fiction)
“The Falseness of Prophecy” by Ted Morrissey (fiction)
“Shiva” by Joanne Naiman (fiction)
“Bystanders” by Matthew Snyderman (drama)
“The Twisted S” by J. Bradley Minnick (fiction)
“Leading the Witness” by Megan Wildhood (fiction)
“The Blue Book” by Don J. Rath (fiction)
“Aboard the S.S. Arabian Nights” by Matt Gillick (fiction)

Volume III
[2023]

“Mirror, Mirror in the Text, Which Myself Will I See Next?” by Sante Matteo (a hybrid text)
“Rust” by Chris Lombardo (fiction)
“Vanishing Island” by Michael Washburn (fiction)
“Auld Lang Syne” by Amanda Doak (fiction)
“Bear Aware” by Rick White (nonfiction)

Volume II
[2022]

“Oscar and Olivia” by Richard C. McPherson (fiction)
“The White Hills of the Ebro” by Brady Harrison (fiction)
“The Drowning of Maribelle Lane” by Jade Chin (fiction)
“Family History” by Dorothy Wall (poetry)
“A Brief Interruption” by Ryan Pollard (fiction)
“Night Driving” by Peter Herring (fiction)
“Wrestling Weight” by Ranney Campbell (fiction)
“Schrodinger’s Child” by Tom Gartner (fiction)
“In Dreams” by Dorothy Wall (nonfiction)
“The Empire Builder” by Katie Kane (fiction)
“Ripple” by Jeff Rosen (fiction)
“Autumn Leaf” by Don Morgan (fiction)
“An Occurrence in the Striped Patch” by John Cody Bennett (fiction)
“Fitz Hugh Ludlow’s Impressions of the West” by Kenneth Chamlee (poetry)
“Little Woman” by Connie Corzilius (fiction)
“The Final Portrait” by Grant Tracey (fiction)
“Godless Luck” by Zarina Zabrisky (fiction)
“Bellman” by J. D. Schraffenberger (fiction)

Volume I
[2021]

“Tritogeneia” by D. W. White (fiction)
“A Love Story” by Anita Kestin (fiction)
“The Robert Altman Dialog Instance” by G. W. Clift (fiction)
“Closed Captioning” by Edie Meade (fiction)
“rosalie” by Nicole Amador (fiction)
“Group Dynamics” by Sidney Haren (fiction)
“Mother among Her Things” by Priya Dileep (nonfiction)
“Escape from Paradise” by Sante Matteo (fiction)
“Portrait of a Staircase” by Ryan Jenkins (fiction)
“Merrill Stein: Wallace Stevens Scholar” by Greg Gerke (fiction)
“Creation Stories” by Christie Cochrell (fiction)
“The Bride in the Rowboat” by Dylan Brie Ducey (fiction)
“The Sound of Love” by Jim Fairhall (fiction)
“Vanishing Points” by Marc Dickinson (fiction)
“The Salinger Files” by Grant Tracey (fiction)
“Here’s a Story” by J. D. Schraffenberger (fiction)