November 2015
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Instar
Robert Glick
What Is Romeo?
Catherine Gammon
Understand
Kaj Tanaka
A Deformity Story
Kathryn Scanlan
EXCERPT
Between You and Me
Scott Nadelson
POETRY
Bioluminescence
Amy Wright
[I leap into the public swimming pool]
Paul Tran
I was much too far out all my life
Sarah Sarai
Christmas Break, 1997
Ben Jackson
NONFICTION
011. Metapod
129. Magikarp
Colette Arrand
BOOK REVIEWS
Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser
reviewed by Angela Woodward
Confluence by Sandra Marchetti
reviewed by Veronica Popp
Infinite Fictions by David Winters
reviewed by Ilana Masad
Locked Away by Gabe Durham, Invisible Women by Lily Hoang, and Man Bites Cloud by Bob Schofield
reviewed by James Yates