The cold lace dress with four pearl buttons, a tapestry of snow, a gentle sash, frills under the chin. She seems to be covered with layers of lace, wrapped in deep drifts and piles of lace, with a corsage on her wrist. The dress is patterned with a whole book of different flowers, shy flowers tucked in around her sleeves and waist. Betty Crocker never made a better cake than her ivory creation made for twirling tonight, perfectly made to veil such a beautiful girl who may twirl or curtsey and not show the knee. She bows like frosted cake.
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Issue 109, published January 2024, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Carol Alexander, Lis Beasley, Jack Bordnick Studio, Heather Bourbeau, Michael Daley, Keith T. Fancher, DM Frech, Jeremiah A. Gilbert, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Liz Irvin, Richard LeBlond, S. Frederic Liss, Suzanne C Martinez, Ashley McCurry, Robert McKean, Cecil Morris, J. M. Platts-Fanning, Rebecca Pyle, Jim Ross, Christopher Rubio-Goldsmith, Rikki Santer, Fabio Sassi, Zeke Shomler, Caroline N. Simpson, Gerald Wagoner, Richard Weaver, Tracey Dean Widelitz, and Steve Zimmerman.