January 2012
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
The Fisherwoman's Daughter
Kirsten Kaschock
Penetrable Paradox
Sarah Tourjee
We Expect and Feel
We Figured on a Lifetime
Christopher Merkner
Boys' Own Stories
Victor Infante
EXCERPTS
The Impossibly
Laird Hunt
POETRY
Letters to the Editor
Prospero's Confession
Poem Beginning With a Line Falsely Attributed to Voltaire
Charles Jensen
Things to Think About
Scott Beal
If Man is Meant to Fly
Luke Johnson
Before Me
Rose McLarney
NON-FICTION
epitaph 54
Matthew Vollmer
As a Bitch Paces Round Her Tender Whelps, So Growls [My] Heart
Shena McAuliffe
CREATIVE AUDIO
Hadley's Mill
Margaret Eaton
Read by Eugene J. Buechler
BOOK REVIEWS
Your Wildest Dreams Within Reason by Mike Sacks
reviewed by Phedra Deonarine
Short Bus by Brian Allen Carr
reviewed by Laura Ender
The Ravickians by Renee Gladman
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp
Other Heartbreaks by Patricia Henley
reviewed by Jason Cook
Best European Fiction 2012, edited by Aleksander Hemon
reviewed by Anna Clark