September 2011
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
ボブ (Bob)
Part Three
Jonathan Callahan
Two Short Fairy Tales for Children or Adults
Caren Beilin
Three Movements
Michael Rudin
In the Time of the Blue Ball
Manuela Draeger
translated by Brian Evenson
NOVEL EXCERPTS
The Taste of Salt
Martha Southgate
Touch and Go
Thad Nodine
Glass
Sam Savage
Hooked
John Franc
POETRY
Babbage, Troubled by Vision at His Wife's Grave, 1827
Neil Aitken
Memento Mori
Sara Henning
Spring Flood
Sara Tracey
Zoomorphic
Chloe Martinez
NON-FICTION
Algarve: an Abecedarium
Éireann Lorsung
BOOK REVIEWS
This is Not Your City by Caitlin Horrocks
reviewed by Deirdra McAfee
The Microscripts by Robert Walser
reviewed by Josh Billings
The American Girl and The Glitter Scene by Monika Fagerholm
reviewed by Darby M. Dixon III
The Mimic's Own Voice by Tom Williams
reviewed by Brian Allen Carr
Look! Look! Feathers by Mike Young
reviewed by Barry Graham
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES