Touchstone

Department of English

English/Counseling Services Building

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS 66506

touch@k-state.edu

Touchstone 2012

Note: Beginning with the 2012 Edition, Touchstone is converting to an online only publication.  All publication files are PDFs.

Table of Contents

This Life More Sweet by J.D. Isip (poetry)

"!" by Forrest Helvie

The Suicide Artist by Karen Ingram (fiction)

We Hit the Ground, but We Never Ran by Connor Krause (poetry)

Nautical Notions by Kelsey Hixon-Bowles (poetry)

Getting Ready for a First Date by Lindsay Vannaman (poetry)

The Creek by Randall Goble (nonfiction)

Protist by Josie Doefer (flash fiction)

The Ghazal of Distance by Rebecca Papucaru (poetry)

The Stage-Door Mirror by Heather Etelamaki (fiction)

My first love, and the lake by Lindsay Vannaman (poetry)

The Quarterback by Maggie Stephens (nonfiction)

Reverie by April Avalon (poetry)

Clay Chiclet by David Shroyer (poetry)

A Book of Hours by Jefferson Holdridge (poetry)

My Blue Escape, My Otherness of Being by Catalina Florina Florescu (flash fiction)

Buttercream by J.D. Isip (poetry)

I Drug Him Further by Isaac Spear (nonfiction)

What Poor Lighting Will Do To A Soul by Elijah Kampsen (poetry)

Rule #25 by Dylan Bandel (poetry)

Dreaming Ophelia by Angela Zito (poetry)

"You Gonna Be Up All Night" by J.D. Isip (poetry)

On a Former Lover's Hands (or Faith, Suspended) by Angela Zito (poetry)

Scenes by Tucker Wilson (fiction)

Prague Fugue for A.M. Klein by Rebecca Papucaru (poetry)

The Worker by David Shroyer (flash fiction)

One Lost Year:Photography, Haiti, and Recomposing a Few Memories by Christopher Garland (nonfiction)

Eating Ananas and Anar—Throwing up Neda Agha-Soltan by Roxanne Rashedi (fiction)