October 2012
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Flat Land
Dylan Nice
Birds with Teeth
Amber Sparks
from Unlucky Lucky Tales
Daniel Grandbois
The Plan
Margaret Patton Chapman
EXCERPTS
Big Ray
Michael Kimball
Fra Keeler
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
The House Enters the Street
Gretchen E. Henderson
POETRY
SLOW
FUNERAL
Matthew Poindexter
[My grandmother is dying]
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
In Which Our Hero Becomes a Masked Vigilante
Medusa
Stephanie Cawley
NON-FICTION
What I Learned About Love and Billionaires in 26 Hours
Eugenia Leigh
BOOK REVIEWS
Understories by Tim Horvath
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp
The Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox
reviewed by Chris Emslie
Take Care Fake Bear Torque Cake by Heidi Lynn Staples
reviewed by Kristen Orser
Office Girl by Joe Meno
reviewed by Molly O'Brien
The Last Warner Woman by Kei Miller
reviewed by Nathan Huffstutter