Issue Five
December 2009
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Dear Reader
Matt Bell
FICTION
Aren't There People Who Take Care of This Kind of Thing?
Todd Cantrell
Winner of the 2009 Flash Fiction Contest
Blades
Stace Budzko
2009 Flash Fiction Contest finalist
Diana loved anything orange
Chella Courington
2009 Flash Fiction Contest finalist
Leaving Freiburg, June 1940
Kristine Uyeda
A2009 Flash Fiction Contest finalist
A Note on the Lyrics, Atlanta Gymnopédie, Asheville Gymnopédie, and Oklahoma City Gymnopédie
Scott Garson
Twenty Questions, It's Me, and It's You
Jennifer Howard
A Name
Lindsay Merbaum
Antlers
Jim Ruland
POETRY
The Release and Paper Dolls
Robert Fanning
The Ones Left Inside
Ethan Joella
Under the Skin and Choose
Candy Shue
Slippery Place
Sheera Talpaz
NON-FICTION
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
Dave Housley
Porch Platitudes, from The Anatomy of American Homes
Ryan Ridge
BOOK REVIEWS
All Fall Down, by Mary Caponegro 
Anna Clark
On Ken Sparling's Dad Said He Saw You at the Mall
John Madera
The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit, by Michael Zadoorian
Stacy Muszynski
Memoir: A History, by Ben Yagoda
Max Ross
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
Unless noted, all works copyright © the author 2009.
"The Fourth Alarm" was originally published in Esquire in 1973 and is reprinted here with permission from the estate of John Cheever. The Stories of John Cheever was originally published by Knopf in 1978 and again in paperback by Vintage in 2000.
