The theme for this issue was “heat.” The theme for next issue will be “passion.”
Poetry
Ballad of the Skylight Diner — Lou Orfanella
What We Do Not Say — Anthony Botti
Run Down by a Dune Buggy on Fire Island — R. Steve Benson
Sunday Evening — Joseph LoGuidice
Late Night with a Seasoned Poet — Mary Sayler
Finding Giverny Off A Sand Road In Rural FL — Mary Sayler
The Monkey Chronicles — Doug Ramspeck
Fiction
Kissing Peter Tork — Lou Orfanella
The French Teacher — Margaret Karmazin
The Broken Cross (Part 1) — John T. Hitchner
Essays
Tennis above the Net — John F. Joyce
My Calderon Years (Part 1) — Dean Borok
The Last Taboo — Jon Baldwin
Two Islands: England and Eel Pie Island — John F. Joyce
Sardinian Sunshine: The Most Undiscovered Part of Italy — Linda Oatman High
The Palm Tree Goddess — Tala Bar
Out of Kentucky — Mattie Louise
Humor
The Mobile Classroom — Thomas Sullivan
The Last Ant — K. A. Laity
Cuttings
Cuttings are shorter pieces, thoughts and observations.
A Small, Green Piece of Paper — John F. Joyce
Cicadas — Charles Sanft
Jumping Rope in Fitler Square — Bernie Mojzes
Artwork
Heat — Aditi Laddha
Soular Eclipse — Randy Thurman
Fire Sky — Darla Farner
Remembrance — Mary Ann Reilly
Woman in Hutong — Alexandra Parsons
River Girl — Alisha Gaspard
Long I Stood — Alisha Gaspard