May 2013
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Love Among the Particles
Norman Lock
HUMINT
Evelyn Somers
Rabbit Fur Coat
Matthew Simmons
The Purple Shells
Meghan L. Dowling
What She Always Wanted
Carmen Lau
EXCERPTS
River of Dust
Virginia Pye
Girls I Know
Douglas Trevor
+1
Katherine Bucknell
POETRY
Impasse
December Light in Arizona
Romance at the Abandoned Mine
Melissa Cundieff-Pexa
The Grave of Rudolf Hrušínský
Christopher Crawford
A Song Called Hunt
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Bluer Pastures
Tiffanie Desmangles
MUD & FISH & BROTHER & WOODS: ON REPETITION AND RESTRICTION AND DIFFERENCE IN THE FICTION OF PETER MARKUS
In a House in a Woods
(an excerpt)
Peter Markus
Enslaving the Concussion: Peter Markus as Experience
Blake Butler
Ode to Peter Markus #7
Poem to be Put in a Drawer After Telling
Sean Thomas Dougherty
Phone Rhymes With Phone, Mud Rhymes With Mud
Aaron Burch
The Four Love Stories of Peter Markus
Matt Bell
BOOK REVIEWS
Swim for the Little One First by Noy Holland
reviewed by Michael Jauchen
All My Friends by Marie NDaiye
reviewed by Angela Woodward
All Black Everything by Weston Cutter
reviewed by Jessica Plante
The Invisibles by Hugh Sheehy
reviewed by Peter Fontaine