Note from the Editors
7
Chris Ward The Void
8
Sarah Goldstein from Fables
10
Holly Amos Nightlight teeth leave a body this way Tuning Forks
13 14 15
Maria Williams-Russell Carrying Water Last Night the Fan Whirred in the Window Before the Storm
16 17 18
Carrie Chappell Corner Store
19
Marika McCoola The Thief
21
Sarah Sloat Dictionary Illustrations
22
Ben Merriman Mouse Bells
24
Christopher Hellwig The Fat Mother
25
Dan Kaplan The Bulk of Interference The Poles and Scenery +
26 28 29
30 31 32
Jennifer Arcuni Verge: outpost Double-bright Verge absence: level
33
Michael Bazzett The Mirror
34 35 36
Dean Young Sometimes a White Veil Angel of Erosion Emptying Arc
37
Travis Brown I Had a Silver Soul
38
Kristine Ong Muslim Living with Ezra
39
Amanda Bales The Fauna in Oz
41
Marika McCoola The Traveler
42 43 44 45
Ricardo Pau-Llosa Land of Nod Man Milk and Honey Man Fool-For, Slave-For Man Calling Disciples Man
46 47 48
Gale Thompson Bewitched Suspended on a Rigid String American Bones, Dear Friend
Barbara Perez A String Theory Severing the Corpus Callosum Axioms
49 50 51
Marika McCoola Why Must You Smile Like That?
52
Dan Chelotti I Love You, Max Jacob Fuel Pump
53 55
Robert Krut The Hospital
57
Jennifer Tseng Kindness
58
M. Bartley Seigel This is what they say, they say This is what they say, they say
59 60
Austin Tremblay A Year Winter Carrying the One
61 62
Nate Pritts Throttling
63
Marika McCoola It Happened on the Day of the Party
64
Stacy Kidd Pulse
65
John Peck 67 Headlines II: Single Lust 69 Headlines III: Hen on Ice Marika McCoola 72 Oh Really? D. E. Steward 73 Diembir Paige Taggart 78 from To People Who Sometimes Read Christopher Janke 81 [3] from blepharism Mark DeCarteret 87 A Holiday from Ourselves Marika McCoola 89 Really? Sonya Arko 90 One-Act Play 92 contributors’ notes