June 2011
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
CLASSIC REPRINT
Introduction
Tom Williams
Popper's Disease
Charles Johnson
FICTION
Dark Molly
Rob Roensch
Red Roof Inn, Route 5
Kate Petersen
Old Penny
Christy Crutchfield
Bruce, or, The Whippoorwill Hunting Lodge Association For Men: A Statement of Our Dissolution
Christian Moody
NOVEL EXCERPTS
Wire to Wire
Scott Sparling
Giant Slugs
A D Jameson
Paperboy: A Dysfunctional Novel
Bob Thurber
POETRY
The Bridge
Traci Brimhall and Brynn Saito
Heartland
Alex Dimitrov
The Book of Coming (Or Going)
Mary Lou Buschi
The CEO of Happiness Speaks
To You
Marcus Wicker
NON-FICTION
Californicus Ursusology
Jamie Iredell
BOOK REVIEWS
Suicide by Édouard Levé
reviewed by Kathryn Houghton
Event Factory by Renee Gladman
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp
Procession of Shadows by Julián Ríos
reviewed by Vicente R. Viray
Objects for a Fog Death by Julie Doxsee
reviewed by Robert Alan Wendeborn
Cowboy Maloney's Electric City by Michael Bible
reviewed by M Thompson
The Book of Happenstance by Ingrid Winterbach
reviewed by Anna Clark
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES