Vol. 22, No. 3
July/August, 2018


s p o t l i g h t   o n . . .
The illuminating fiction of David Vardeman
Spotlight
f r o m   t h e   e d i t o r s
Tom Dooley, Jennifer Finstrom, David Ewald, and Gilbert Wesley Purdy discuss this issue
Editors
t h e   s a l o n
Thomas J. Hubschman and Stanley Jenkins
Salon
f i c t i o n
Stories by David Rich, Benjamin Henry DeVries, Tobenna Nwosu, Raphael Falco, Alex Eaker, Jeannette Garrett, Nolan Allen, James Penha, Melissa Lewis-Ackerman, Chris Burns, Michael Kaplan, and David Mizner
Fiction
p o e t r y
Verse by Rachel Dacus, Judy Kaber, Christine Potter, Sara Pirkle Hughes, Steven Deutsch, Christine Taylor, Miriam Kotzin, Raymond Byrnes, Antonia Clark, David and Sharon Mathews, Robert Okaji, Patrick Cahill, Babitha Marina Justin, Ankush Banerjee, Virginia Bach Folger, Deborah Doolittle, Seth King, Scudder Parker, Bob Bradshaw, Michael Hardin, Cameron Morse, Julia DaSilva, Lakshmi Arya Thathachar, Vicente Huidobro, Keith Mark Gaboury, Steve Bogdaniec, Chuck Kramer, Barbara De Franceschi, Marjorie Mir, Charles Kell, Jonathan Simkins, and Jennifer Finstrom
Poetry
n o n f i c t i o n
Larry Smith, V.K. Reiter, Mark Stein, Aaron Dorman, Jamie Derkenne, Michael Milburn, and Joni Renee
Nonfiction
t r a v e l
Cynthia McVay and Nektaria Petrou go places
Travel
m i s c e l l a n y
Alonzo LaMont, Jr., and Tina Cabrera get dramatic
Miscellany
h u m o r  &  s a t i r e
Ryan Habermeyer ups our happiness quotient
Humor
i n t e r  /  r e v i e w s
Reviews by Ann Skea, Carole Mertz, Matthew Wade Thomas, Jennifer Finstrom and Gilbert Wesley Purdy
Reviews & Interviews