July 2013
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
The Callous
Nate Liederbach
Horribilis
Amanda Marbais
Nearsighted in Northern Cities
Tobias Carroll
The Rider
Kristen Gleason
EXCERPTS
Tampa
Alissa Nutting
Mira Corpora
Jeff Jackson
POETRY
All Caves
Thea Brown
Thinking Like a Split Melon
Macrophobia
Jamaal May
Arson
Brendan Grady
Chapel
Jory Mickelson
MONSTERS AND MODERNISM: RECLAIMING CREATION MYTHS, IN TEXT, IMAGE, SOUND
Introduction
Virginia Konchan
Questions for the Humility of Animalia
Elena T. Tomorowitz
Some Notes on Monstrousness
Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney
On the Psyche Ward
Brooke Wonders
Secretary Blues (Lunch Break)
Bridget Lowe
This is my Text to the World That Never Texted Me
Traci Brimhall and Lucy Biederman
Disjecta Membra: Reattaching Capital's Phantom Limb(s)
Virginia Konchan
Our Mistress of Lit Crescendos the Restless Incumbent In Human Opening Explodes Rococo Glow Into Undazzled Dark While Gem-Flushed Mineral Statuettes Shout Abra Freaking Cadabra
Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Durbin
Hanuman's Leap
Elliot Cole
Helicopter Mom (Or, Something for Everyone to Resent)
Natalie Shapero
BOOK REVIEWS
A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims
reviewed by Michael Jauchen
Throne of Blood by Cassandra Troyan
reviewed by Christopher Higgs
Nine Months by Paula Bomer
reviewed by Tom Williams
At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky by Bridget Lowe
reviewed by Virginia Konchan