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FLINT HILLS REVIEW

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Sneak Peek

Issue Thirty

Year:

2025

Contributors:

86

Pages:

Pieces:

188

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Contents:

Kathleen Willard

Prairie Fire / 1


Halimah Abdullah

Buried / 3


April Pameticky

Moth / 18


Lynne Yu-Ling Chien

How to Pretend You Are Not You / 19


Dan R. Kirchhefer

Journey Delayed / 21


Carly Gates

Death and the Butterfly / 22


Meggie Royer

Osteogenesis / 23


Janet McAdams

June / 24


Francine Witte

The Girl I Have Become / 25


Jon Ballard

How It Was or Wasn’t / 27


Ann Piper

Shepherd’s Daughter / 28


David Pratt

Christmas 1914 / 29


Matthew Borczon

Vodka / 33


Alyssa Troy

Breakdowns in the Karaoke Bar / 35


Philip Miller

Your Old Self / 36


Quinn Carver Johnson

Obituary for Icarus / 37


Rick Campbell

The Grave / 38


Ariel Robello

Count to Ten / 40


Kami Olson

Rest / 46


Dixie Salazar

Letter from the Hospital / 47


Greta Hayer

Crumbs / 50


Larry Schwarm

Untitled / 59


Mason Gallaway

The Reacher / 60


Xánath Caraza

Serpiente de Primavera / Serpent of Spring / Koatl Xochitlipoal / 68


Don Kunz

Every Week / 71


Jeff Tigchelaar

Joplin Missouri, Three Days After / 73


Mary Sue Koeppel

The Fireflies / 75


Maria Fire

Lust for Language / 76


Kim Taggart

The Cut Above / 77


Dennis Etzel, Jr.

Along the Prairie / 78


Richard Dinges, Jr.

Planting Trees / 79


Ramona McCallum

Malagueña: Southwest Kansas / 80


Elisa A. Garza

Mist / 81


Kenneth Hada

Cimarron / 82


William Cordeiro

Herring’s Cove / 83


Thomas Fox Averill

Stealth Bomber / 85


Erica Goss

This Is a Wild Place / 87


Ellen Stone

Grass, Ascending / 89


C. Malcolm Ellsworth

Farmer / 90


Lynnae Lewellen

Untitled / 91


Alana Merritt Mahaffey

Harvest / 92


Thomas Russell

Mom Hung the Moon / 93


K.A. McGowan

Bukowski’s Mailbox, 3-11-94 / 94


Claire Donohue Roof

Amelia Earhart’s Plane Disappears / 95


Joanne Lowery

Perfect Saturday / 97


Kristine A. Somerville

The Tattoo / 99


Jane O. Wayne

Sorting Through a Drawer / 100


Jessica Owings

Flight Plan #1 / 101


James Doyle

Fortune Telling /102


Gabriel Welsch

The Capacity of Faces / 103


Jan Wellington

Miracle of the Single Mother / 116


J.P. White

The Sound of One Russian Name in My Ear / 117


Peter Donahue

Nautilus /119


Patricia Goodrich

On Burning a Dog / 129


Phil Anderson

Untitled / 131


David Beard

Camping on the Walnut River / 132


Paula Klein

love song for iowa / 133


KC Culver

St. Mary’s River / 135


Donna Pucciani

Disappearing Act / 137


Steve Shilling

In This Town / 138


Jason Ryberg

Wherever They Stoppped / 139


Adam Brewer

Top Hat / 140


Frankie Rollins

Talk of Dreams /141


Shelly Krehbiel

Watching for Bees / 147


Darren C. Demaree

Emily as Yellow Flowers at the Baptism / 149


Holly Day

Out in the Wild / 150


Robert L. Dean

Upon Waking She Finds This Note / 151


William H. Clamurro

Trajectories / 152


Andrés Rodríguez

Moths / 153


Zhimin Liu

Distance with its Bearing Memory III / 154


Mark Jackley

Love / 155


Blake A. Hoena

Freckles / 156


Geoff Collins

Leaves / 157


Christopher Todd Anderson

At Apogee / 158


Jonathan Greenhause

Finding Some Semblance of Order for Our Outdated Constellations / 159


Helen Trubek Glenn

Postcards / 160


Mitzi McGuire

A Muse Turns Back to his Easel, Unaware / 161


Erin Farias

Amado / 162


James Ehlers

Rising VII (State VI) / 163


William Sheldon

Wichita: A Star Rises / 164


Bart Edelman

Voice of America / 165


Jeff Knorr

A Lesson in Love and Evolution off Highway 99 / 166


Mary Makofske

Reading History Beside a River / 167


Mariette Palma

Review: Louise Krug’s How to Explain / 168


Rosalie Krenger

Review: Melissa Fite Johnson’s Midlife Abecedarian / 170


Asher Lefto

Review: Jen McConnell’s Current Disasters / 172

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