ESSAYS
Stephen Dunn
Maxine Kumin
Jeffrey Meyers
Paul Zimmer

FICTION
Julia Elliott
René Houtrides
Christopher Ross

ART
Jane Alexander

POETRY
Coleman Barks
Richard Bernstein
Fleda Brown
Patricia Corbus
Sarah Gordon
Laurie Kutchins
Doug Ramspeck
David Roderick
Brian Simoneau

Griffonia
a story by René Houtrides

I was holding one of Benjamin’s socks. The vacuum attachment had choked while I was cleaning under the faded green sofa and, when I pulled the nozzle out, the curl of one sock hung—limp and trembling—from the hose opening. I was alone in my small apartment above the Chinese restaurant, with one dangling sock from the once-alive foot of my now-dead lover. The smell of egg rolls wafted in. The restaurant’s kitchen started up early. . . .

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