Fire Demon / Emily Dolanova

The cover illustration for 3rd Wednesday’s fall issue is a digital drawing by Emily Dolanova of the Czech Republic. The issue, due near the end of September, will feature the winners and honorable mention stories from our annual George Dila Memorial Flash fiction Contest, judged this year by John F. Buckley.

An Elegy for Our Brothers / T. Cutler

Talia Cutler attends Trinity College majoring in English Language and Literature. She hails from East Coast soil – the metamorphic stuff and continental margins, not the sandy parts. She often writes herself into corners and is in pursuit of things that are beautiful, such as large bowls of apples, crosswords, and the Blue Ridge Mountains. She has previously been published in Rainy Day Cornell, The JAR, and has won two Scholastic Writing Awards. She enjoys em dashes, oxford commas, and David Foster Wallace.