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Autumn’s first freeze, Anchorage, Alaska.
© 2013 Clark James Mishler

AQR Vol. 30, No. 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2013

Table of Contents

Special Feature

Fiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

He Watches the Weather Channel, Carrie Shipers
At the Sadness Factory, Carrie Shipers
Love Poem for the Radium Girls, Eric Weinstein
Runaway Green Tea Effect, Eric Weinstein
Nouvelle Vague, Kathleen Winter
The Garden Party, Kathleen Winter
The River, Elizabeth Barnett
The Horses Didn’t Die, Elizabeth Barnett
The Blind Madonnas, Sylvia Foley
Attributed to Qu Ding, Mark Sullivan
Space Bears and Doxology, Charlotte Pence
Wanted: A Pretty Picture, Charlotte Pence
Assumption, John Lundberg
At the Loom, James Doyle
Totem, Jeanne Emmons
Credo, Kathryn Hunt
Epithalamium, Kara van de Graaf
Foster Child, William Notter
Paddlewheeler to Sugarloaf Mountain, Andrew H. Oerke
Marx’s Family, Garret Keizer
Against the Wind, Elisabeth Murawski
The First Snowfall in the Al Anbar Province Since 1991, Kyle Adamson
How We Give Ourselves, Gary H. Holthaus
A Tree Full of Cherries for the First Time, Anne Love Woodhull
Big Leaf Maple, Elizabeth Myhr
So Many, Donald Platt
Dinner Party, Julia Lisella
Movie Drunks, Maxine Scates
Long Distance, Ciara Shuttleworth
LHOOQ, Lauren Hilger
Reveille with Fire Alarms, George David Clark
The Precious Book, Patricia Fargnoli
First Day at Indiana State Teacher’s College, 1926, Jill Kress Karn
Free Will with Small Yellow Truck, Marylen Grigas
Playing Bach’s 3-Part Invention #9, Jean Janzen
Sedna the Arctic Sea Goddess, Hila Ratzabi
Revelations of the Parietal, Angie Macri
Music at My Mother’s Funeral, Faith Shearin
Things We’re All Too Young to Know, Faith Shearin
My Weight On Other Planets, Faith Shearin
Galaxias Kyklos, Sarah M. Brownsberger
Cesarean Section, Sarah M. Brownsberger
Deliquescence: A Meditation in Seven Parts, Elizabeth Bradfield