Table of Contents

Fiction

• Justin Cronin, “The Light of the Remotest Stars”
• Judy Doenges, “The Money Stays, the People Go”
• Sara Gambrell, “Inventory”
• William Lychak, “Hard to Find Your Feet”
• William McKenzie Neal, “Uncle Manny’s Flanny Steak Vegetables”
• David Pettie, “Nam Arm”
• Steve Yarbrough, “The Price-Rite Browns”

Poetry

• Joel Brouwer, “Fireplace”
• Leslie Bumstead, “Semantics of Longing,” “The Yawn”
• Brian Chidley, “Rubrics”
• Neal Dwyer, “Un Commencement”
• Reagan Maud Good, “Inscribe”
• Greg Grummer, “Old Man, Repeating His Story After the Second Pitcher of Beer,” “Rejection”
• James Kimbrell, “Before We Wanted Cruise Control”
• Bill Knott, “Adulterer with No Mouth,” “The Man Who Married His Checkout Lane”
• Vyacheslav Kuprianov, “Blind Man’s Bluff”
• Thomas Lux, “Susanna Fontanarossa”
• Rosa Maroque, “Mercy”
• Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, “Sight”
• B.C. Mohrbacher, “American Dream,” “Johnson Mows His Lawn,” “Picnic with Johnson,” “Johnson Contemplates the Life of the Artist,” “Johnson Holds the Teeth of God”
• Christian Nagle, “After the Ball”
• Evan Oakley, “Days of Tears”
• Louise Robertson, “The Laurel Tree”
• W. Gregory Steward, “commentary”
• Marc J. Strauss, “December 11th”
• Evgeny Slivkin, “The Announcer”
• Jon Valceanu, “The Little Demons Sing”
• C.K. Williams, “The Idyll,” “Politics”
• Dieter Weslowski, “From Here on In”

Interviews

• With Thomas Lux, by Jeffrey McDaniel
• With Vassily Aksyonov, by Christian Nagle

Nonfiction

• Diane E.S. Prentiss, “Kumina Death Dance”

Art & Photography

• James Power
• Thomas Segars, “Patriot”
• Liane Thompson
• Carl Zitzmann