Cover Art: “Eternal Desire” by Shanice Reid.
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Poetry
Jo Taylor
Conviction | What My Sister Taught Me
Annie Harpel
solace | [untitled] | nightlight
Charles Eggerth
Prayer Before Surgery | The Forgotten
Megan Ulrich
Beautiful Things | Communion | Comestible
Casie Dodd
The Morning After the Wreck
Sherry Poff
Into the Water
Jeffrey Essmann
Epiphany | I Asked Her How She Was
Matthew Wiley
Jacob Kahn, Prophet
Sarah Tate
The Grand Dance
Terri Martin Wilkins
A Space I Cannot See
J.F. Rains
Faith | Faith II
Rick Hoadley
Waiting for the Kudu to Die | Beyond the Mist
Katelyn J. Dixon
A Costly Ascent | At Hand | Methodist Hospital, Room 213
Don Thompson
Quam Dilecta | Cauldron | January 1st
Peace Nkeiruka Maduako
Days Are Coming
Claudia M Stanek
Craving Graves
Rob Piazza
Transfer Station
Daniel Wade
Isaiah
Sarah Law
The Botafumeiro
Brian J. Alvarado
the altar ego | the 20s are about learning
Gretchen Gales
a·poc·a·lypse
Anthony Butts
Iceberg Effect
Robert Funderburk
A New Life
John Savoie
In Tenebris
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Fiction
Matt Hollingsworth
The Other Vincent
Troy Pancake
Jonas
Bill Sells
I was his first
J.F. Rains
Alaric the Fox
Nonfiction
Barbara Lock
God in Spanish
Mary-Kate Corry
Outreach Day
Bill Vernon
Skeptics on Patrick’s Stack
Robert L. Jones III
Frances in the Fog
“The Cross with Nature and Flesh” by Cesar Ceballos.
Art
Shanice Reid
Dry Bones Come Alive | At the Master’s Feet | Eternal Desire
Jennifer Weigel
The River
Cesar Ceballos
The Cross with Nature and Flesh | With Christ’s Salvation
Paul Nixon
San Damiano corpus
Cristiane Ventre Porcini
Jesus na manjedoura | Girl Looking at Jesus
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