Issue I
March 2016
From the Editor
The idea for Bracken was born in the Yorkshire woods, at Arvon, right after the Paris attacks of this past November. The horror left me feeling desperately alone so far from home, and the wood lulled me to sleep, when nobody and nothing else could.
Or perhaps it was born long before, in my native Russia, where I roamed the wood every summer, fearless and deeply at home with mosquito bites…. Read more.
Fiction
When We Got to Arizona and the Petrified Forest
by Laura LeHew
Through Earth and Sky
by Gwendolyn Kiste
The Woodcutter's Sons
by Stephen Case
Passing Through
by Stephen Thom
Father Bear
by V.N. Martin
Poetry
Runaway
by Claire Hermann
Close to Home
by Jed Myers
Give Up the Saw Jennifer
by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
Tale from the Vienna Woods
by Erika Michael
I Asked the Alchemist
by Sara Backer
Devoured // Neverhome
by Jessica Bixel