issue thirteen

winter 2025

special thanks to our guest poetry editor

Eliana Franklin

for her help with this issue

 

Poetry

 

Everything On A Line

by David Cazden

Morning Brine

by Karen Luke Jackson

Hatteras Elemental

by Gregory Lobas

 

Where I Drift

by Ann Chinnis

Drowned

by Betty Stanton

Late Afternoon, Low Tide

by Sharon Hoffmann

After the New Drug

by Maggie Rue Hess

A Final Visitation

by Barclay Ann Blankenship

Leaving

by Ann Chinnis

 

Moon in My Bourbon

by Ed Brickell

Understory

by Noah Soltau

 

Three Six Five

by Emilee Wigglesworth

Luke 1:26-38

by Madison Lazenby

Chasing After Henry Aaron

by Matthew Johnson

Fiction

 

Faster Than Your Arms

by Laton Carter

Carcass

by Richie Kurt

State Bird

by Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry

Have You Seen This Child?

by Roberto Ontiveros

Vita Nuova

by Greg Freed

Mind Reading

by Savannah Bell

 
 

Frenchman’s Ferry

by D Bedell

 

Nonfiction

 

About the Photographer

 

Scott Craig is a father, grandfather, cat dad and photographer from Roanoke, VA. He has taken photos since he was 9, but only got into the discipline “seriously” in 2006. After majoring in mass communications at Virginia Commonwealth University, he was an award-winning designer and copy editor during a 22-year newspaper career. The majority of that time was at the Daily Press in Newport News, VA., with stops at the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the News Leader. His work has been published in the Artemis Journal and “The Rainbow Sky," a book about scientific exploration of light and color. He has also written and photographed for several publications including the Roanoke Times. His approach to photography has allowed him to express his curious nature, his artistic soul and his ability to see the extraordinary in the otherwise ordinary. Citing David Plowden as his photographic hero, he looks for opportunities to capture moments in place and time. In doing so, allows his images to tell the stories of the abandoned or the obscure, their beauty and enduring importance. He is currently a writing coach and tutor at Virginia Western Community College. 

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