December 2022 ||| CONTENTS
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Portrait, by Stacy Wennstrom
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POETRY
Polaroid of a girl from Pennsylvania, by Stacy R. Forbes
Night-Fishing, by Penny Harter
Beneath, by Tricia Knoll
Instructions for My Portrait, by Gail Braune Comorat
Self-Refracted, by V.A. Bettencourt
Acrylic Garden, by Lorrie Ness
Self-Portrait as Sinkhole, by Elizabeth C. Garcia
Undesirable, by MaryAnn F. Moenck
Peterkins the Canary, by Nancy Huggett
Rite of Spring, by Karen Warinsky
The Botanist, by Sigrun Susan Lane
Christmas Eve at the Hampton Inn, by Dawn Terpstra
That Girl on Fire, by Eric Paul Shaffer
Selfie with Lunar Landing, by Dawn Terpstra
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FICTION
The Neighbors, by Hanwen Zhang
Mother’s Picture, by Ashlynn Perez
Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family, by Regina Higgins
The Ballad of Red 1, by Blair Reilly
Like Grief, by Amy L. Eggert
Up North, by Lizzie Thompson
Woeful at the Edge of the World, by Rachel Drenckhahn
Stills, by Matthew Kasper
The Gardener, by Kristi Ross
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NONFICTION
Bats, by David Milley
Kaleidoscope, by Eleanor Talbot
In the Grip, by Mary Dittrich Orth
The Things People Say, by Priscilla Davenport
Acrostic for Marianne, by Danielle Dillon
Wouldn’t You Like to Know? by Patricia A. Nugent
Pixie Pammie, by Pamela Hertzog
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