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Note from the Editor

Poetry

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Marjorie Maddox
The Seven Sorrows | To the God-daughter, who forgave you

Jo Taylor
Singing the Blues | Camp Meetin’ | Elijah

Bruce Pemberton
Senior Prom, May 1972

Caron Freeborn with Steve Armitage
Yeah, I go there now

Jennifer Leigh Paccione
Stained Glass

Bruce McRae
Some Angelology

Debra Ayis
We Did Good? | Hope

Elaine Wilburt
Song For Those Who Can Hear Only Noise | Empty | Resurrection

LindaAnn LoSchiavo
Fallen Apple | Encounter in Chiesa del Gesù

Daniel Romo
Blending | Spirit

Terry Minchow-Proffitt
Seven Ways to Sunday | Make Like a Tree

Victoria Crawford
Wishing Tree

Julie Dunaway
Sand | Stinson Beach

Kelly Hanwright
Irreversible | Hope Chest

Peter Lilly
Absolution | Your Stare

Stephen Regan
Handmaiden

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Flash Fiction

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Elaine Wilburt
The Bread of Life

Robert Garner McBrearty
A Trace of Music

Kale Sastre
On Becoming

Short Fiction

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Don Stoll
Passion

Margaret Koger
A Christmas Gift

Nonfiction

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John C. Mannone
The Cleansing

Andy Fairchild
Mortar and Pestle

Artwork

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Sarah McDonald Price
Incarnation

Martin Kostov
Anticipation

O. Yemi Tubi
Riding the Waves | The Rosy Seasons of Life | The Fishers of Men Rescue the Refugees

Leemour Pelli
To Do Thy Will With a Perfect Heart I, II, III (triptych)

Ildiko Mecseri
Infinite Wonders | Someone prayed for him | Organist

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