Issue V
January 2018
From the Editor
This week, I’ve been blessed. It was my first mass, and I was enjoying the pageantry of the Catholic Church from the safe distance of the back pew. How plainly was I an outsider in this place... Read more.
From the Poetry Editor
Issue V’s gathering of poems comes by way of a long slow sifting, and I hope that you, dear Reader, will find that not only are individual pieces worthy of your heart’s welcome, but that the selection overall stirs in you something of Bracken’s unfolding spirit.. ... Read more.
Fiction
Just When You Think You Know Everything
by Jenifer Lawrence
Wild Ones
by Vanessa Fogg
The Bridge
by Yukyan Lam
Fever
by Bucket Siler
Random Advice for a Stranger About to Walk into the Deep Dark Woods (Alone) Wearing Red
by HL Fullerton
Poetry
A Few Words Left Behind
by Jeff Hardin
I Want to Tell You
by Ronda Broatch
The Fifth Season
by Emily Stoddard
Janitor of the Labyrinth // The Green Pear
by Anita K. Boyle
Drought
by Suzanne Langlois
Revenant
by Babo Kamel
Dusk on the Lake of Dreams
by Margaret Holley
Midnight After Winter-Long Rains
by Peter Munro
Lanugo
by Jill Dery
Enough
by T. Clear
Root Bound
by Mark Childs
Art
Issue V cover image
by Patty Grazini
Selected work
by Bathsheba Veghte
The Girl with the Flower Crown
by Amanda Greive