Issue Eighty-Five

August 2016     

 

Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell

FICTION

Evidence
Maryse Meijer

Certitude
Jeff Bursey

Shepherd
Glen Pourciau

Disfigurement
Historical Society
Glenn Shaheen

EXCERPT

Blind Spot
Harold Abramowitz

POETRY

Out of the Windfields
And That’s How I Almost Died of Foolishness in Beautiful Florida
Jessica Jacobs

Are We There Yet?
Jeannine Hall Gailey

Mestizaje
Precatio simplex
C. Dale Young

Zoonotic
Cindy King

When We Say We Want Tenderness We Haven't Found A Punishment We Can Live With
Still Life of Acme in Spring
Aricka Foreman

Jim Tucker Lets Me Sleep in His Treehouse
Anders Carlson-Wee

November
Sarah Huener

Man Flying Corpse Flying Man
Robert Fanning

Mid-Morning with Houseplants
Proverbial
Michelle Peñaloza

Nights Below
Ian Randall Wilson

NONFICTION

Here in the Mariana Trench
Dylan Brown

BOOK REVIEWS 

Dog Ear by Erica Baum
reviewed by Alexis Zanghi

Not a Self-Help Book by Yi Shun Lai
reviewed by John David Harding

Spine by Carolyn Guinzio
reviewed by David Nilsen

All Waiting is Long by Barbara J. Taylor
reviewed by Bradley Babendir

 

 

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