Editor’s Note
Our featured artwork of this issue, Bridget Stanton’s “Exam Week,” well illustrates how I believe the terrain of my brain looked during this finals week and, well, most of the semester. A crazy external world has certainly led to an even crazier internal one; like the exploding colors in Stanton’s piece, I have felt the flurry, the frenzy building inside of me as I’ve tried to negotiate all of the challenges 2014 has already thrown my way. Read more – Laura Henning, Editor
Fiction
Wilted Roses – by Ann Bradley
Pandora’s Memory – by Lacey Caskin
EHC #04 and #29 – by Tyler Fieldhouse
Sunchaser – by Olivia Junghans
Poetry
Atomic – by Kara Bell
Eros Turns His Back – by Ezra Blaize
Feeding Hour – by Ezra Blaize
For Walt – by Ezra Blaize
Spring – by Ezra Blaize
Yearbook – by Ezra Blaize
Wallowing in Our Ancestral Swamp – by Elizabeth Doolittle (Honorable Mention Contest Winner)
I Too Walked Small – by Katie Frazier (First Place Contest Winner)
Nude Nana on a Public Beach – by Terell Robinson
The Glass House – by Lauren Weber
Past Lives – by Lauren Weber
Non-Fiction
Nine Square Meters – by Ksenia Panova
Featured Staff Pieces
Thank You for Calling. Your Call Is Important to Us. – by Professor Stephen Kampa
The Man Becomes the Music – by Professor Stephen Kampa
The Gamble – by Managing Editor Courtney Clark
We Are Empty and Full of Everything – by Poetry Editor Arielle Corsetti
Betrayal – by Fiction Editor Glenna Hursh
Rain Observations – by Non-fiction Editor Kevin Ip
Undone – by Poetry Editor Nicole Zaunbrecher