November 2009
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Amazing Peter
Chad Benson
Children Have Small Ghosts, Et Cetera
Lance Olsen and Andi Olsen
Another Kind of Weight
Kate Petersen
Running Night
Cooper Renner
CLASSIC REPRINT
Introduction
Benjamin H. Cheever
The Fourth Alarm
John Cheever
NOVEL EXCERPTS
The Cave Man
Xiaoda Xiao
The Country Where No One Ever Dies
Ornela Vorpsi
POETRY
Two Poems
Arlene Ang
Hero
Stephen Dobyns
Cold Motel Room
Judy Huddleston
Two Poems
Keith Taylor
NON-FICTION
Simon's Quest
Brian Oliu
A Women's Garden, Sown in Blood
Melissa Pritchard
BOOK REVIEWS
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
Anna Clark
Translation is a Love Affair by Jacques Poulin
Nicolle Elizabeth
The Suburban Swindle by Jackie Corley
John Madera
Girl Trouble by Holly Goddard Jones
Jill Meyers
The Southern Cross by Skip Horack
Stacy Muszynski
The Halfway House by Guillermo Rosales
Anis Shivani
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
Unless noted, all works copyright © the author 2009. "The Fourth Alarm" was originally published in Esquire in 1973 and is reprinted here with permission from the estate of John Cheever. The Stories of John Cheever was originally published by Knopf in 1978 and again in paperback by Vintage in 2000.