Fiction
Leslie Pietrzyk—Featured Writer—Fiction
Interview by Harold O. Wilson, Senior Fiction Editor
Gold Digger by Leslie Pietrzyk
Blair Benjamin
For All Your Good Fortune
Dale Stromberg
Story
Craig Dobson
Clearing Out
Curt Saltzman
Un Bouquet de Debra
Philip DiGiacomo
Sunny Daze
John Arterbury
The Wrong Side of Heaven
Robert Stone
Art
Robert Wexelblatt
Petite Suite de Renommag
Richard Sensenbrenner
Grandfather’s Story
John J. McKeon
Petrarch’s Cat
Sam Campbell
Someone Planted Kudzu in New York City
Nonfiction
Steph Liberatore—Featured Writer—Nonfiction
Interview by Ellen Brown, Nonfiction Editor
Bug Girl(s) by Steph Liberatore
Jean McDonough
Dry Eye
Anne Moul
The Baby in the Corner
Mary-Cecile Gee
Unknowable
Rita Plush
Leitmotif
Elise Seyfried
Writing in Ink
Judy Catterton
Play on Maryland’s Eastern Shore
Elly Meeks
Hydrangeas
Erin Rose Belair
On Making Marmalade
Michelle Cacho-Negrete
When I First Met You
Daien Guo
Dinner in Dubrovnik
Marijean Oldham
The Things We Can Leave Out, Now That They’re Off to College
Patty Somlo
The End of the Story
Mia Mazzeo—Featured Student Writer
Winner of Talbot Arts—Delmarva Review
Talbot County High School Scholarship
Movies and Moving
Poetry
Devon Miller-Duggan—Featured Writer—Poetry
Interview by Anne Colwell, Poetry Editor
Poems by Devon Miller-Duggan
Wytai
Cliffs May Not Care
In Order to Pray for History as it Happens, or After
In Which I Didn’t Grow Wings
Katherine Williams
Place Setting
The Price
This is the Earth
Arrogance
Hauthunger
Mary Buchinger
I Land as on Mars
Late May at Ed’s Easy Pickin’
Where I Go When I Close My Eyes
Andrew Payton
What They Decided Not to Fix
Traumas
Kathryn Temple
Legacy
My Snake
Susan Okie
The Life of Secrets
The Black Dog Wakes Us with Fish Breath
Julian Koslow
Time the Teacher
T. Dallas Saylor
Rethinking the Odyssey
Visions
Your Family Invites Me to Help with Dinner
Your Mouth
Aubade with Goddess & Sidewalk Chalk
Christopher Honey
Helen to Euripides
Catherine DeNunzio
A Discernible Decline in Health
Prayer for Perseveration
Unyielding Love
Madeleine Cohen Oakley
The Pond at Evening
14 Inches of Snow
Samuel E. Cole
leading man homonyms
Barry Peters
Puce
Winter Ball
Erin Stoodley
Dear Theda
Ultimatum
Draped Woman (1911–1912)
Sara Atwater
Sea Meets Coast and They Roll in and out of Love
Fisherman Blues
Mary Ozbolt
we dreamt up enough treats & bonbons
Magtok
Porkolt
Bethany Reid
Chopin’s “Fantaisie-Impromptu”
Chopin’s Ghost
Pam Crow
Gretel Remembers
Last Swim Class
K. Alma Peterson
Kite
The Whereabouts of One Who Ceases To Be
Cadance
P. W. Covington
Tumor
Kathy Nelson
Revision
Mercedes Lawry
Now Dimming
Day Before Easter
Colin Jeffrey Morris
A System of Seeing
Gunsight (apocryphal)
Noel Sikorski
On the Day I Rehome Our Dog Mello
Doubt
Mary Beth Hines
Nollaig na mBan
Emily Adams-Aucoin
Proposal
Andrea Wyatt
Another YouTube Rescue
Sally Dunn
Connection
Susan Bucci Mockler
Ghost Blankets
Victims
Staging a Plantation Home
Gina Ferrara
Beginning in Persia
In Unequal Seasons
Brendan Rowland
Humility
Marlowe Jones
You Learn Transaction, Before Anything Else
The Appeal of the Vampire Boyfriend
Ellis Elliott
Back to School
John Muro
Something More Than Winter Weighs (Upon Me)
Book Reviews
340 Nancy Mitchell reviews
Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems by Sue Ellen Thompson
Meredith Davies Hadaway reviews
Blue If Only I Could Tell You by Richard Tillinghast
Janice F. Booth reviews
A Doctor Only Pretends: Poems About Illness, Death, and In-between by Abby Caplin
Janis Daly reviews
Answering Alaska’s Call by Linda Fritz
Suzi Messick reviews
Living Into Darkness and Finding Light: Spiritual Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter
by George R. Merrill and Jo Merrill
Barbara Esstman reviews
Stardust by the Bushel: Hollywood on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore
by Brent Lewis
James O’Sullivan reviews
Timepieces: Three Decades of Commentary in The Baltimore Sun
by Peter A. Jay
J. C. Reveal reviews
A Wife in Watercolor by B. B. Shamp
