It has been a long time in coming, but the second issue of Pisgah Review is finally on the stands. From the initial call for submissions to the hard copy of the issue, there have been tidal changes. We want to thank our contributors for not only their excellent prose and poetry, but more so for their patience. We hope the delay is understandable. Charles White has left the journal, and in his absence we have enlisted the help of a graphic designer, while Jubal Tiner has taken on further editorial responsibilities. Texas A&M’s graduate school now claims Charles time that is not consumed with his continuing work on seafaring adventures. We wish him all the best. Before and during completion of the current issue, Jubal Tiner left Western Carolina University for greener pastures at Brevard College. Pisgah has followed him there, and now calls Brevard its home. Thanks go out to our managing editor, Megan Wilson, who helped this issue come to fruition. Thanks also to our printer, Lightning Source, who worked out the kinks in our account with the change in proprietorship. And we thank you, readers, for your endurance. We assure you, it is worth the wait. Enjoy.

FICTION

Tammy Wilson | To The Devil
Jacqueline Kolosov | Forsythia
John Lavell | Buddy’s
Carol D. O’Dell | Boat People
Lonnie Busch | Current
Aaron Hellem | When You Remember Fayetteville
Monica Wesolowska | Our Bed, Our Life
Susan Snowden | Stung
Craig E. Buchner | Apology
Seth Harwood | A Long Way From Disney

NONFICTION

Joan Connor | Love at Forty

POETRY

Dan Nowak | Saint Hyacinth’s Church
Michael Hogan | Elegy
Alan Elyshevitz | Let Us Not Speak of Legacy Now
Sandra Marshburn | Measured Miles
Sean Brendan-Brown | Crows
Thorpe Moeckel | Beginning to Peel, For Once
Louis McKee | Her Hand
Joanne Lowery | Worry, the Elephant
Kenneth Chamlee | Weather Map, Diminishment

Cover art: Lonnie Busch www.3rdei.com