September 2016
Letter from the Editor
Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Ice and Sleet as Onslaught of Memory
Ryan Call & Christy Call
Game Night
Susan Neville
Down to Sleep . . .
Margo Berdeshevsky
As Simple as Water
The Woman Whose Husband Died in a Climbing Accident
Catherine McNamara
EXCERPT
The Gloaming
Melanie Finn
POETRY
Already
Elisabeth Lloyd Burkhalter
Otherwise Inexplicable Animation to the Forms Above
Christopher Citro
Portrait of My Sister's Ankle Tied in Ribbon
america, MINE
Sasha Banks
Dictator
Stephen Massimilla
NONFICTION
Vertigo Suite No. 1
Sara Greenslit
BOOK REVIEWS
Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
reviewed by Forrest Roth
The Summer She Was Under Water by Jen Michalski
reviewed by Michael B. Tager
A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent by Gregory Mahrer
reviewed by Cristina J. Baptista
Portait of the Future with Trapdoor by Elizabeth Onusko
reviewed by David Nilsen