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Table of Contents
Cover Art: A Story to Tell – Trisha J. Wooldridge
The Solitary Man – Leen Raats
Weary Willie – Bethany Bruno
Missing – Sarah Cannavo
Forever Plastic Playhouses – Patrick Malka
Falling – Julie Sevens
Breaking Water – Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Split – Sam Rebelein
Adultery in Modern Massachusetts – Lynne Barrett
Cleansing Me of You – Deborah L. Davitt
Perfect Quiet – Kathleen Smith
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa – Wailana Kalama
Do I Just Let the Cancer Take You? – Lynne Schmidt
Keepsakes and Mementos Mori – Cormack Baldwin
Who Else Can See? – Megan Wildhood
Fog Over Jennings Beach – Jackson Kuhl
Beneath the Ice – Harrison Demchick
The Thing Under the Sink – Liam Hogan
Famine – Melanie Simutis
The Millstones on That Path – Robert Mayette
East St., Providence, RI – Joshua Rex
Weird Witness: A Personal Essay of the Paranormal – L.E. Daniels
Only the Shape – Anj Baker
No Winter Maintenance – Susan R. Morritt
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