Contents

Crossword Puzzles
Elizabeth Schoppelrei

Another Restless Night in My Apartment
Charles Childers

A Dark and Early Breakfast
Kara Wellman

I Speak of
Lindsay Hansard

Self Portrait as a Ghost
Jenna Citrus

Pocket Watch
Andrea Ruffier

Allison
Katy Knight

Listening In
Elizabeth Schoppelrei

Priceless Advice
Erin Amschlinger

Make Me Like Autumn
Emily Sirko

What I Want to Know About You
Emily Sirko

Time Lines
RoseMary Klein

Danger of Devotion
Jennevie Stephenson

Lies We Tell Our Children
Paige Thulin

Crossword Puzzles

half-completed crossword puzzles
on sunday mornings leave gaps

in dialogue between his fingers
clenched around a spoon

dipping in and out and in again
into the placid milk clinking

creating the singular conversation with
her eyes hidden behind 

crinkled papier-mâché headlines
wanting to ask him the capital of denmark

knowing he would say:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elizabeth Schoppelrei is a senior at Wright State University. She is a Spanish major with minors in English literature and German. She enjoys taking creative writing courses and submitting to both the journal and newspaper on Wright State’s campus.