In this issue:

“Still Life”
fiction by
Jeff Ewing

“the mail slot”
“The Corner”
poetry by
Mark Belair

“The Perfume I Never Gave My Mother”
poetry by
Gail Peck

“Overuse”
“Plum Tree”
“Four Morning Auguries”
poetry by
Doug Ramspeck

“For Opportunity”
poetry by
Eric Vithalani

“Opening Day”
fiction by
Jeff Moreland

“The Platter”
poetry by
Idris Anderson

“Agoraphobia, The Fear of the Gathering Place”
poetry by
Christopher Todd Anderson

“The Place des Vosges”
“Surrealism”
“Red Coat”
poetry by
Richard Jones

“Le bel animal du roi”
poetry by
Sue Chenette

“After My Sister’s Mastectomy”
“The Unfinished Novel”
“At Twenty”
poetry by
Lynne Knight

“Tin”
poetry by
Matthew Murrey


Cover artwork: “Intimité” (“Intimacy: Couple in Interior”),
1898, tempera on cardboard, 35 x 57 centimeters
by Félix Vallotton

Layout by
Leah Browning




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Apple Valley Review: A Journal of Contemporary Literature

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