Spring 2020: Vol. 48, Issue 2

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note: A Statement About Our Name by Jason Kyle Howard

FICTION

Bethany Holmstrom

Pile of Feathers

Mary Alice Hostetter

Traps

Vanessa Van Besien

Milk

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Rebecca Hazelwood

Secondhand Stories

POETRY

Frank X Walker

On Mother’s Day

Hairline Fracture

Deejay Battle

Y’all Say I Do, We Say Black Lives Matter

Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben, & Aunt Jemima

Baptism by Dirt

Commencement 2020

Jenn Blair

Beersheba Springs Assembly

After the Prodigal Returned

Hellbender

The Flood

Paper

L. Renée

Gone

Fish Fry



Jae Dyche

On Birds

Elegy as a Railroad Watch

Axis Mundi

Lisa M. Kendrick

Match Girl

Jawbreaker

Alison Terjek

Leaving the Mountains

Elizabeth Gordon

Almost Heaven, or Mixed-Race Road Trip Following the Fall of Saigon

INTERVIEW

Carter Sickels by Robert Gipe

BOOK REVIEWS

The Book of Daniel (Aaron Smith) by Savannah Sipple

Appalachia North (Matthew Ferrence) by Emily Masters

The Ash Family (Molly Dektar) by Donna M. Crow

Planted by the Signs (Misty Skaggs) by Sylvia Woods

LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia (Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, Eds.) by Melissa Helton

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Justice Undone—Untitled #14 by Raymond Thompson Jr.