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Contents…
Featuring an interview with Barry Hannah
Nonfiction
Abbie J. Bergdale, Stuck Town • 2
Tyler Enfield, Novolin • 14
Shannon Willitts Falk, From Bail to Jail: What Happens in Between • 17
Louis E. Bourgeois, Interview with Barry Hannah: Bat Out of Hell • 20
Margaret K. Özemet, Dog in Black Lace Panties • 26
Henry Ronan-Daniell, Like a Horor Movie without a Monster • 30
Irene Turner, How Not to Get Work Done on Amtrak • 35
Poetry
Abdul Ali, The Subway Men • 38
Burying the N-Word • 39
Nin Andrews, My Life As a Bull • 40
The Unattainable Orgasm • 41
The Last Orgasm • 41
Bonnie Auslander, A Brief History of Fasteners • 42
Bridget Bell, Pink Skin, No Feathers • 43
Billie Bernard, The Door’s Mista ke • 44
Jen Bills, Necklace • 45
Amy Knox Brown. Let’s Pretend • 46
The Turkey Buzzards • 47
Callista Buchen, Ode to Competitive Scrable Players • 48
John F. Buckley, Best-Seling Children’s Books According to the Salinas Scarab • 49
Nancy Naomi Carlson, The Hat • 50
Emily Carr, Chapter 8: (& When Hope Returned It was Another Hope Entirely • 51
Gladys Justin Carr, Love Story • 52
Joan Colby, The Names of Torture • 53
Anne Colwell, Titus’s Hand • 55
In the Ladies’ Bathhouse • 56
Nina Corwin, Rehearsal Dream with Upright Bas • 57
Chella Courington, Redder Than Diane’s Lipstick • 58
J. P., Dancing Bear Lung • 59
Kristina Marie, Darling Dearest V. • 60
Kelly Davio, Children’s Art is Asylum Art • 61
Andrea DeFoe, The Beast from the Lake and the Beast from the Forest • 62
Jaydn DeWald, Silent Cort ège • 63
Brendan Egan, The Back Porch is the All Sliver-giving Paint Job • 64
Renee Emerson, No One can Camp Next to a Kentucky Redneck • 66
Phil Estes, I am Enron and Josephine is My Samurai Poet Trained by Birds • 67
Benjamin Evans, Cheever in Blufton • 68
Naoko Fujimoto, Meadowsweet, Koi Kokoro • 69
Bernadette Geyer, Myopia: A Parable • 71
Joseph Goosey, Hiatus Is Widespread and Thickening • 72
Kevin Griffith, Eating the Piano • 73
Will Grofic, Dan Cemetery • 74
Jim Gross, Sourdough 1955 • 75
Song for a Suicide • 76
Ian Haight, Peacock Meditation at a Thai Nunnery • 77
Brenda Hamack, Sysigy • 78
James Harms, Anorak Pop • 79
Marc Harshman, A Proper Decorum • 80
Jaimee Hills, Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pit • 81
Emily Homrok, UNDERGROUND • 82
Anna Maria Hong, DOY DOY • 83
Amorak Huey, Guzzle • 84
Dani Raschel Jimenez, Healing • 85
Jeffrey N. Johnson, Nine-Month Lease • 87
Michael Johnson, The Executioner • 88
Suzanne Karpilovsky, How the Radical Gods Left the Woods • 89
David Keplinger, On Deciding Not to Enter the Museum of Torture • 90
Jascha Kessler, A Golden Anniversary • 91
Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom, Contingency • 92
Sean Lause, Kaf ka Lived • 93
Laura LeHew, The Buny Hoarder • 95
Grisella Martinez, Con Safo • 96
Susan Maurer, Desiderata • 97
Gerald A. McBreen, Delicacies • 98
Gary L. McDowell, Child-Rearing • 101
Erika Meitner, 69 • 101
Brown Miller, To Come Back and To Sing • 103
Elisabeth Murawski, Elegy for Gren Eyes • 104
Weam Namou, The Veil of Vanilla and Fire • 105
Carissa Neff, Physex • 106
Distres over the Damsel • 107
Gerald Nicosia, Dadio Pete • 109
The Beats in China • 110
First Chinese Breakfast • 111
B. Z. Niditch, Frank O’Hara in Soho • 113
Saïdeh Pakravan, What I heard this morning • 114
Earl Patrick, A Teardrop Fracture of the C4 Vertebral Body • 117
Simon Perchik, * • 119
Nanette Rayman Rivera, Fate Discovers a Fish • 120
Stephen R. Roberts, In Remembrance of the Creature • 121
Kathleen Rooney, ’Tis the Season to Submit • 122
Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Instructions for the Cheat • 123
Joshua Sapan, Floating Above the City to Irving Berlin • 124
James Schlatter, Conception of Skolopendra • 125
E. M. Schorb, The Final Tithe • 126
Gregory Sherl, Basic Cable • 127
Lucy Simpson, Transformation in White • 128
Ronnie Sirmans, Lot and Daedalus • 129
William Soule, Remembering Father • 131
Carlie St. George, Brains • 132
David Starkey, Renaissance Humor • 133
To the Science Professor Acros the Canyon, Who Died • 134
D. E. Steward, Latrine • 136
Kurt Straube, For M. B. • 137
Emily Tallman, Backstage at the 1999 Miss California Pageant • 138
Simon A. Thalmann, Maybe Boston • 139
Holly Welker, 1812 Overture • 140
Dalliance • 141
WMR, Mortality • 142
Emma Sky Wolf, Time for Herself • 143
Kathi Wolfe, If I Have to Leave • 144
Joseph P. Wood, Good Night Nobody, Good Night Mush • 146
Deborah Woodard, Junior High Bathing Suit Muse • 147
Ernie Wormwood, Emily • 148
Charles Edward Wright, e • 149
Ed Zahniser, Treatment Plan • 150
Fiction
Forrest Aguirre, Fosiloctopus • 159
Naoko Awa, A Smumer’s Dream • 160
Matt Bell, Edgar, Edric, Eduardo • 168
R. E. Bowse, Our Mother, Like a Kite • 170
Hadley Boyd, Inner Landscape • 176
Ryan W. Bradley, Motherhood • 188
Blair Braverman, Watching Russia • 190
Ken Brosky, I Just Can’t Turn It Off • 198
Monica Byrne, The Reclamation Rite of One April Nora Hess • 204
Caryn Coyle, Delusions • 206
Stephanie Dickinson, When the Snow Leopard Stalks the River • 215
Amy Dodgen, Realistic Painting for the Blind • 231
Robert Epstein, Comments on a Book Reproducing an Ancient Bas-Relief Sculpture • 238
Colin Fleming, Piles, or, Climaxing in a Forest Fire • 241
Abby Frucht, Old Inn Door • 247
Jeremy Garrett, In the Library • 250
Roxanne Gay, How the Girl in the Glas Sheds Her Skin • 253
Luke Geddes, Betty and Veronica • 256
Greg Gerke, Mother and Son • 267
Hilary Goldstein, The Dream Eater • 272
Peter Grandbois, Appliances • 278
Dustin M. Hoffman, Zombies ! Rodemom! • 280
Karen Holman, Paper House • 297
Ani Kachbalian, When Blowfish Forget Love • 299
Christina Kap, Things to Do When It Rains • 307
Zane Kotker, What ’s Wrong with Sushi? • 312
Dylan Landis, Centrifuge • 316
Michael Landweber, Amuse Bouche • 319
Marti Leimbach, Nicky, Aged 10 • 320
Alexander Lumans, Cormac McCarthy, Walmart Greeter • 321
Ravi Mangla, Hair • 323
Sam J. Miller, The Last Sleepover • 326
Shilo Morlang, A Bicycle Built for Two • 338
Amy Ng, Shoes • 351
Kevin O’Cuinn, Un Sac Come Le Mien • 354
G. C. Perry, The Doughnut Eaters • 357
Meg Pokrass, Underneath • 358
Surrogate • 359
Glen Pourciau, Bounce • 360
Eman Quotah, Glory • 364
Shannon Robinson, How to Get a Man • 368
Fred Skolnik, Adrift in the Global Village • 371
Emma Straub, Soap • 388
Susan Tepper, Glue • 391
Hillary Suzanne White From “Flannel Bell” • 402
Anne-E. Wood, Theater of the Sea • 410
Geoff Wyss, Arms • 419
Brigit Kelly Young, The Racon Chronicles • 431
Shellie Zacharia, The Arborist Shows Up On Saturday Afternon • 449
Artwork
Tom Chambers, Icy Road • cover
Lydia Conklin, Farm Kitties • vi
Lydia Conklin, About a Tear • 151
Contributors • 451
