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How I Was Mothered the 2019 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize story by Faith S. Holsaert art by Dawn Surratt
190 The Sacred Strangeness of the Mother a review by Helen Stead art by Barbara Tyroler Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith, Editors, Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South 192 Credit Where It’s Due
a poem by Emily Banks art by Carolyn DeMeritt
194 A True Spectrum of Queer North Carolina Writing a review by David Deutsch Wilton Barnhardt, Editor, Every True Pleasure: LGBTQ Tales of North Carolina 196 Treatise on Whether to Write the Mango a poem by Eric Tran art by Kenny Nguyen 198 Stories of Ordinary People in Uncomfortable Situations a review by James W. Kirkland George Singleton, Staff Picks 202 Mount Zion Cemetery a poem by Betty Ritz Rogers art by Angela Franks Wells
203 Finding Hope and Goodness among Life’s Twists a review by Barbara Bennett Belle Boggs, The Gulf Kathryn Schwille, What Luck, This Life 206 At Carolina Beach a poem by Anna Lena Phillips Bell art by Mitchell Lonas
208 No Other Stories Like These: The Liminal Lives of Other(ed) Women a review by Savannah Paige Murray Mesha Maren, Sugar Run Etaf Rum, A Woman is No Man
211 The Tender a poem by Barbara Campbell art by Jane Cheek 212 Sensible Solutions to Discomfort a review by Laura Sloan Patterson Maura Way, Another Bungalow 214 Baba Yaga After a Bad Tinder Date a poem by John Frank Haugh art by Jean LeCluyse
216 On the Demise of a Bibliophile a poem by Michael Gaspeny art by Daniel Essig 217 “We will never forgive one another
/ for being human” a review by Hannah Crane Sykes Emilia Phillips, Empty Clip Kevin Rippin, Amber Drive 220 After the Acquittal a poem by Amy Elsie Parkes art by Taylor O. Thomas
222 The Memory of Objects a review by Joseph Mills Mark Cox, Readiness Holly Iglesias, Sleeping Things 226 My Life in Shreds a poem Jonathan Giles art by Thomas Schmidt
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 6 n North Carolina Expatriate Writers poetry, prose, interviews, book reviews, and literary news 80 n Flashbacks: Echoes of Past Issues poetry, book reviews, and literary news