Current Issue
Rain Shadow Review X (2020)
Contents
Introduction – Gillian Haines 1
Poetry
- Gretchen Hill
- by day by night 8
- the POW speaks to me 9
- how I am doing the pandemic all wrong 10
- making brownies at the end of the world 11
- the death of Kathy’s father 12
- Dora Rollins
- Transcendence 14
- Discharge 15
- Charles Carr-Satchell
- Leave Already 16
- Foot Husks 17
- Ralph Hager
- here again 18
- Tomorrow 19
- The Desert 20
- Man’s Best Friend 21
- Steven Henderson
- Superstition Mountains 22
- Jasper Jones
- Velvet Dreams 23
- Stephen Keating
- Forgotten Promise 24
- Maurice Roberts
- Fully Charged Smart Phone 26
- J. Link
- Wet Road Reflections 27
- Sun Sparks Off Barbed Wire 28
- Jason Schrum
- Contents Unknown 29
- Michael South
- Calculating the Sum of All Theories 30
- Garen Zakarian
- If Only 31
- Some Blame It on the Bedouins 32
Prose
- Charles Carr-Satchell
- Child’s Play 34
- K.D. Lovett
- My Bed of Syringes 36
- Drop Beats Not Bombs 38
- Billy Cannon
- Table 14 41
- When I Play Cars 44
- The Fastest Trip to Walmart Ever 45
- A Green Dog Named Scooter 47
- Patrick Slay
- Two Kinds of Pain 49
- 18th and Adams 51
- The Townies East Apartments 54
- Hugh Stan J. Schlicker
- Dysfunctional Family 57
- Steven P. Arthur
- Floating 60
- Michael South
- Making Soup in the Slammer 61
- Ken Lamberton
- Burying Ed 63
- Garen Zakarian
- Into the Bright 72
- Gillian Haines
- Covid Prescription Information 74
Cover Art by J. Link
Interior Photography by Dora Rollins