Contents

Note from the Editorial Director
Brenda Beardsley
What Builds Us Up

Creative Nonfiction
Sarah Cedeño
A Picture of Natural Demise

Adrian Shirk
Notes on Memoir

Jill Frances Johnson
Ghats

Drama
Kelli Lynn Woodend
Memorial Day

Fiction
D.E. Hardy
Silk City, 1913

Raquel F. Ponce
The Conquistador

Sean Kenealy
Saying Goodbye

The Folio curated by Rogelio Martinez
Rogelio Martinez
Folio Note

Lloyd Suh
Disney & Fujikawa

France-Luce Benson
Showtime Blues

Interview
Adrian Shirk
Beyond the Classroom: A Conversation Between Adrian Shirk and Raquel F. Ponce

Poetry
Joseph Brunetti
Visions from a Bus

Beth Konkoski
For My Son

Ju-Hyun Park
Appendix

Meg J. Petersen
Departure

Claudia Owusu
The Night Nigeria and Argentina Play the World Cup

Alice B Fogel
Event Horizon

Mark Lee Webb
Today Is Not the Day

Donna Isaac
Grief

Alamgir Hashmi
Bulrushes, Normandy

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