Fall 2013 Contents


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Fiction 

Elizabeth Ames 

 Vivisection

 Adam Peterson

 The Affair Ends Badly

 An Emissary Visits the King

 Robin Romm

 Toxic Assets

 Victor Schultz

Legend to a Planimetric Map of Haddonfield, 

Illinois, October 1998 

 Daniel O'Malley

 Keeping House

Poetry 

 Virginia Konchan

 Rorschach

 Rachel Rinehart

 After the Weatherman Tells Us to Evacuate,
We Light Hurricane Lamps and Get into the Bath

 Martin Rock

 Ewe

 Love Poem for a Pack of Wolves

Christopher Citro 

 Back from the Edge of Hunger

 Jamie Thomas

 Ghazal Written to Fortune (in Bed)

 J.S.A. Lowe

House of rainwater & gratitude 

 Calvin Bedient

Chloe and Moissant 

 Hala Alyan

 Not Snow, Not Sun

John Sibley Williams 

 Casablanca

 Karen An-hwei Lee

 On the Fascination of Orchids

 Rainer Maria Rilke 

 from The Roses (translated by Micah McCrary)

 Sasha West

 Forge with the Stars of Distant Fire

 Nate Liederbach

 House     Hold 57.0

Dennis Hinrichsen 

 Caravaggio's Medusa as a Box of Nails

 Sally Wen Mao

 Electronic Necropolis

 Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

 Poem with Seven Fires Inside It

 Christopher Munde

 Ouija

Tom Useted

 A mother poem

 Keetje Kuipers

 Brotherhood

 Sara Gelston

 The Curtain Rises

 Darin Ciccotelli

 Winter at Its Most Hypothetical

Rebecca Lindenberg 

 The Houseless Woods

 Maggie Evans

 Photos of Cold Balconies

 Jenny Molberg

 Narrative

Essay

 Corey Ginsberg

Miami Redux

Plays

 Owen Wynne Jones

Love Life

Walt Vail 

Silent Night

  Cover Art:  Mindi Bagnall, "Chip & Dakota"