January 2016
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Mules in the Wilderness
Barry Gifford
The Plan
Empire
Out Hunting
Dennis James Sweeney
Before Bedtime with Kate
Erinrose Mager
The Casting Director
Code Violations
Aimee Parkison
EXCERPT
Square Wave
Mark de Silva
POETRY
Every Ghost Named After You
Julie Henson
Body Count
Victoria Lynne McCoy
Her and Christian Anton Gerard in an Argon Cloud
Christian Anton Gerard and Her Yet Without a Past
Christian Anton Gerard
Like Life
Liz N. Clift
NONFICTION
Acknowledgments
Tom McAllister
BOOK REVIEWS
Among the Wild Mulattos by Tom Williams
reviewed by James Yates
A Hanging at Cinder Bottom by Glenn Taylor
reviewed by Justin Thurman
The Book of Feral Flora by Amanda Ackerman
reviewed by Nora Boydston
Tram 83 by Fiston Mwaza Mujila
reviewed by Gabino Iglesias