Table of Contents
Editor's Note
Introduction Ryan Schuessler 15
Blue thunder, red thunder Galen Gritts 17
Histories: The People, Places, and Events That Define Us
Glimpses of History In an Old Stone Church Ron Scott 21
Segregation in Heaven Mark Loehrer 23
Decoding the Veiled Prophet Devin O'Shea 25
Song of the Mississippi Jane Ellen Ibur 31
Where Wild Plums Bloom Alice Azure 33
Lombards and Sicilians: The Forgotten History of Italian Immigration to St. Louis Nick Sacco 35
Merluzzo Sophia Benoit 40
A Gift to St. Louis Ed Shimamoto Dave Shimamoto Dick Shimamoto 43
After the Holocaust, St. Louis Was Home Miriam Morris 48
When Departing Maja Sadikovic 55
A Refugee Family's Pursuit of Happiness in St. Louis Veneta Rizvic 57
Dear Father Ibro Suljic 61
Pilgrim on the Interstate Nartana Premachandra 62
Finding Bethesda Mark Loehrer 67
Inside the Rent Strike of 1969 Caitlin Lee Clark Randall 73
Post-Apocalypse Walking Tour Eileen G'Sell 83
Midnight Annie's Final Performance Chris Andoe 86
Memories: The Moments That Shaped Us
Sunup to Sundown Vivian Gibson 93
Restorative Faith Christopher Alex Chablé 95
Kenny Joan Niesen 96
Playbill John Hicks 99
Moon of the Disappearing Water Deborah Jackson Taffa 100
Summer Night Rain-St. Louis John Hicks 108
Consuming Fire Samuel Autman 109
The accident jason vasser-elong 116
The Jordanian Kids Layla Azmi Goushey 117
Thought Two Maja Sadikovic 125
Refugee Money Umar Lee 126
An ode to Imo's jason vasser-elong 131
The Last Cricket of the Season Eamonn Wall 132
The Tour Lyndsey Ellis 133
Breaking the Wheel Lisa Ampleman 136
City jason vasser-elong 138
A Kinloch Perspective Steven Peebles 140
In the Event of a Zombie Apocalypse Kelly Kiehl Davis 145
Realities: What We Live with, What We Live For
The Black Iron Fences of St. Louis Asher Kohn 149
Poem to the mother of the white boy I killed Christopher Alex Chablé 151
Inside Out Kierstan Carter 153
Delmar Loop Pantoum jason vasser-elong 159
Downtown St. Louis Alice Azure 160
Sk8 Sanctuary Kaitlyn Hough 161
Saturday Afternoon Train on Game Day María Balogh 166
Variations on a suburb Megan Stringer 169
Secret Socialist Lover Pamela Garvey 170
Humans of St. Louis Lindy Drew 173
Jaywalking Adam Steevens 180
Uncontrolled Eruptions Alonzo Adams 186
2014 Marie Chewe-Elliot 189
What the Bullet Knows Vincent Casaregola 191
"You Have to Act Tough" Inda Schaenen Normandy Students 193
To A G in the Third Row Katelyn Delvaux 198
A Mother's Cry! Debora Grandison 199
Caravan Waltz Robin Wheeler 201
Ferguson Protest Art Paid Forward Rebecca Rivas 205
St. Louis Pride Rachel Brand 208
My Brain Tumor Kirstee Pemberton 209
This is a Ramadan Story about How I Ended Up Crying in an IHOP Aisha Sultan 212
The Syrians Come to Hodiamont Robert Langellier 214
I wonder how many Maja Sadikovic 221
St. Louis Co. Cuts Mental Health Funds Matthew Freeman 222
Carpenter, Branch Josh Burbridge 228
St. Louis, a Portrait from 2010 Nartana Premachandra 230
Acknowledgments 232
Contributors 233
