July 2010
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
Down and Down We Drifted, He Explained to His Executioner on the Anniversary of an Important but Unnamed Event
David Hollander
Ma Jeunesse
Hannah Pass
Story of Eyes
Ben Segal
Clearcutting
A Wolfe
NOVEL EXCERPT
Termite Parade
Joshua Mohr
POETRY
Notes on Discovery: Dismantling a Clock
Perry Janes
Morning in a City
Vessantara
Subhashini Kaligotla
Blue Whale
Temporary River
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Spectators
Children in Poems
Jon Pineda
NON-FICTION
Some Thoughts that Begin with Kafka and Bernhard but Wind up Straying Rather Far Afield Indeed
Jonathan Callahan
Fragmentation: How to Stitch a Story
B.J. Hollars
BOOK REVIEWS
We Are Never As Beautiful As We Are Now, by Adam Gallari
Gabriel Blackwell
Conditions Uncertain & Likely to Pass Away, by Frank Stanford
Anya Groner
In this alone impulse, by Shya Scanlon
Kimberly King Parsons
CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTES