August 2014
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
The Great Flood
Anne Valente
Those People
Dave Housley
Introduction of Tongue
Matt Dojny
Operation
George Singleton
EXCERPTS
The Maggot People
Henning Koch
The Committee on Town Happiness
Alan Michael Parker
The Old Reactor
David Ohle
POETRY
13 Auras for a Migraine
When I Was an Unfinished Novel
Maureen Seaton
The Ministry of Inside Things
Christopher Pexa
For When Your Male Friends Are Asleep
Molly Damm
An Essay on Love
Ode To Not Having Enough Kids To Play a Game of Baseball
A Meditation on Water Beginning With Men Fishing a Flooded Avenue
Despedida: Quezon City
Patrick Rosal
NONFICTION
Portraits of Handwashing
Eric Tran
BOOK REVIEWS
Travel Notes by Stanley Crawford
reviewed by Patrick Crerand
Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen
reviewed by James Orbesen
Fourteen Stories, None of them Are Yours by Luke Goebel
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp
I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac by Jamie Iredell
reviewed by Nicole Sheets