October 2009
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Full Metal Jhacket
Matthew Derby
La Negra Blanca
Roxane Gay
Jockey
Sarah Norek
Un-Active Volcano
Catherine Zeidler
NOVEL EXCERPTS
The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats
Hesh Kestin
Shadowplay
Norman Lock
POETRY
Portrait of Myself as a Piece of Red Candy in Your Mouth
Mary Biddinger
Retrograde Poem
Rick Moody
Two Poems
Peter Jay Shippy
Two Poems
Ross White
NON-FICTION
Black Specks
Greg Bottoms
In Which I Move Again
Kelley Evans
BOOK REVIEWS
Driftless by David Rhodes
Anna Clark
The Trespasser by Edra Ziesk
Diane Leach
The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square by Gert Jonke
Josh Maday
Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca
John Madera
Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia edited by Mikhail Iossel
and Jeff Parker
Jill Meyers