November 2011
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Whatever, Forever
Joseph Salvatore
Mercy
Emma Smith-Stevens
Teenage Motorcycle & Love Tragedy Story
Matthew Simmons
A Modest Book Proposal from Pete Maynard, Author of M__y Dick
Christian TeBordo
The Litany of Stupid Things
Gabriel Welsch
EXCERPTS
Body of a Dancer
Renee D'Aoust
The Dreaming Girl
Roberta Allen
POETRY
Death, I Wish You
Ross White
Glossa Ordinaria
Les Beaux Jours
Michael C. Petersen
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Ocean Vuong
Song for Survival
Angie Macri
NON-FICTION
American Literature
Ryan Ridge
CREATIVE AUDIO
Captcha Poem
David Moscovich
BOOK REVIEWS
The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen
reviewed by Peter Fontaine
The Vicious Red Relic, Love by Anna Joy Springer
reviewed by Melissa Chadburn
Ventrakl by Christian Hawkey
reviewed by Josh Billings
Chattering by Louise Stern
reviewed by Anna Clark
Seven Days in Rio by Francis Levy
reviewed by Mark Snyder
Intention Implication Wind by Ken Sparling
reviewed by J.A. Tyler