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