The Quiet Circle Volume 1 Issue 1 | Page 7

CONTENTS
Editor’ s Note 1
Nonfiction
DANIELLE GRAY –“ Foster”
3
JANINE MACRIS –“ Fortressing Time”
14
MEGHAN TRASK SMITH –“ The Culture of Life”
16
Poetry
ED AHERN –“ The Sparrow Nest”
23
GINNY LOWE CONNORS –“ William Swinging”
24
DREW S. COOK –“ A Recovered Drug Addict Recalls A
Long-Absent Acquaintance”
26
MICHAEL HETTICH –“ Dust”
27
CANDACE HOWZE –“ Parting in Winter”
28
LESLIE LEONARD –“ Jane”
29
LESLIE LEONARD –“ Oak”
30
EMILY PEIFFER –“ Portrait against Bathroom Tile”
31
CHARLES RAMMELKAMP –“ Ghost of the Confederacy”
32
Fiction
MAIA LYNN ANDERSON –“ It All Starts with A Dream”
33
NANCY GOLD –“ Anamnesis”
37
DEREK OWENS –“ The Heavens”
41
Contributor Notes 44