Poetry
—Poetry— Farryl Last The Ancients Who Hadn’t the Fridge Brew Poison D.G. Geis Petition Ruth Foley Astrology | Whale Songs and Love Sounds Alex Stolis May 17 Red Bluff, CA | May 18 Mt. Shasta, CA Brent Fisk What We Take Apart When No One’s Looking
Fiction
—Fiction— Patrick Meadows Shorty J.T. Townley Roses for Candy Bar Brendan McDonnell Dislocated Brandon Getz What They Know
Flash Fiction
—Flash Fiction— Leslie Maxwell How the Eye Sees
Creative Nonfiction
—Creative Nonfiction— Catherine Brereton The Runner Curtis (Chuck) Weikert Maka-feke Michael Milburn In and Out Lauren Fath The Color of Tomatoes
The Problem of Proportion
I’ve never been good with portion control. I once saw a home video of my three-year-old self crying and begging my mom for another chocolate chip cookie. I’d gotten a taste of that sugar crack and only wanted more. Whoever was filming me, probably my jerk father, just kept pulling the camera away, making me […]
Editor’s Note
Dear Readers: At the 2016 AWP Conference in Los Angeles, the MFA program at West Virginia University celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary while our small but proud literary magazine, the Cheat River Review turned five years old. Having signed on as Assistant Fiction Editor in my first year as a graduate student here, I’ve been […]