September 2013
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
From the Collected Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne
Michael Martone
Incidents of Travel Among the Metamorphosians
Pierre Bettencourt
translated by Edward Gauvin
Two Fictions
Greg Gerke
Devotions
Dolly Laninga
EXCERPTS
The Desert Places
Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss
Fort Starlight
Claudia Zuluaga
Damnation
Janice Lee
POETRY
Almost and Completely
Phillip B. Williams
Valence
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
The Wing's Lesson
Inquiry into Owls
Inquiry into Beckoning
CJ Evans
Compromise
Weston Cutter
NON-FICTION
Thoughts on Time After Viewing Christian Marclay's "The Clock"
Chris Daley
BOOK REVIEWS
Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello
reviewed by Nicole Sheets
The Pet Thief by Kassten Alonso
reviewed by Alexander Lumans
Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling
reviewed by Julie Babcock
The Palace of Contemplating Departure by Brynn Saito
reviewed by Tyler Mills