Title Page

Editors

English Department Writing Awards

Table of Contents

In This Time of Love, I Am Chocolate

1

Open Enrollment

2

Notes From a Spiritual Epiphany

3

Anchorage

4

Jackal Dance

7-8

Therapy Session

9

The Ship

10-11

Check Engine Light

18

The South Will Rise Again

19

L'appel Du Vide

20

Stone Ellipsis

21

Bezos & Me

28

Central

29-30

Waterfront Momentary

31-32

Luna Hermosa

33

Forward Afterthought

38

The Drift

55

The Apartment Flashbacks Weathered by an Abominable Contemplation

56

Under Dolphin Bridge

57

Alias

64

Endings

65

the desert, the lake, the moor

66

Behind Curtain Number Zero

73

Beside(s) Me

74

Blind Date at Slap Sea

75

An Examination of Origins

78-79

This Young Country

80

And So We Shall Fall

12-17

Horse

34-37

Lee Catches a Fish

58-63

Short Lives in a Small World

67-72

Rain

5-6

The Tool Box

76-77

Deadline (excerpt)

39-42

Digiti Minimus Vulgaris, Invasive Species

43

you laugh / you cry / you read

44

where in your body do you feel that?

45

to remember what if feels like to know this

46

Native Son II

47

Your Dreams Will Come True

48

Aspirations

49

Revenge

50

The Gossips

51

The Watcher

52

Medusa's Lover

53

Celestial Museum

54

Contributor Notes