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Fiction

  • The Heart of the Mountain by Ari Blatt
  • Heavy as a Butterfly Ball by Nick Godec
  • Lifeguard and Snake Charm by Aruni Wijesinghe
  • The Thing about Rivers by K. Andrew Turner
  • Disembarkment by Nina Pond Bayer
  • Brothers on a Train by Ruthie Marlenée
  • DIA DE LOS MUERTOS by Maryanne Chrisant

Non-fiction

  • Jackie Robinson, My Father, and Me by Paul C. Rosenblatt
  • The Lost Brother by Adrienne Pine
  • Sentimental Value by Carol Owens
  • You Can Call Him Al by Kathleen McGuire
  • The Open Gate by Richard LeBlond
  • The Gift of Old Age by Leslie Hill
  • My Mattress Spies on Me… and No One Cares by Lisa Friedlander
  • Divorce Pending by Ann Bodle Nash
  • The Rollover by Andrew Alexander
  • Awakening by Miriam Edelson
  • I Was Born to Live in a Café by Paul Graseck
  • Going to Work by Kate McCorkle

Poetry

  • Latch Key for Boys by B. J. Wilson
  • Birth Announcement by Carey Taylor
  • Your Eyes Are Not a Camera Drone by Mary Ellen Talley
  • What Your Sleep Tastes Like by T. Dallas Saylor
  • Mother Milk by Mer Monson
  • Rural Electrification by William Miller
  • Cat at the Window by John Delaney
  • Abundance by Rose Mary Boehm
  • From the 49th Parallel…Bellingham, Washington by Barbara Bloom
  • What Lingers: January in Elmwood Jail by Carol Park
  • They See a Pile of Windows by Niki Kantzios

Drama

  • What Doesn’t Kill Us: A Ten-Minute Play by Roger Collins
  • Acts of Love by Winston Widjaja Lin

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  • Visual Art by Lisa Lamoreaux

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Category / Humor

It’s All About Teeth, in the End

By Brian Doyle

And while I am on the subject of elementary school holiday music productions, which I feel should be regulated like any other controlled substance, I am reminded of the Easter pageant, again at Saint John Vianney School near the Atlantic Ocean, when another one

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Fashion Renegades

By Lorna Reese

My husband and I moved to Lopez full time in July, 1994. Two months later, we stood under a warm, September sun, staining endless boards of pale cedar a rusty red-brown.

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How to Buy a Bathing Suit

By Iris Graville

Plans for a March vacation in Mexico, and the recognition that my 10-year-old bathing suit is well past its prime, compelled me to go shopping for a new swimsuit. In the middle of January. This is a shopping trip I’ve never enjoyed, even when I was thirty years younger and weighed twenty-five pounds less.

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