Issue Six

January 2010




LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear Reader
Matt Bell



FICTION


Play
Gabriel Blackwell

This Doomed Gift Before You
Gabe Durham

By the Gleam of Her Teeth, She Will Light the Path Before Her
Tina May Hall

Report from the Committee on Town Happiness, Our New Suspicions and One Step More
Alan Michael Parker



CLASSIC REPRINT


Introduction
Jeff Parker

Scarliotti and the Sinkhole
Padgett Powell



NOVEL EXCERPT


My Little War
Louis Paul Boon



POETRY


Dear Augusta, and Love in the Time of Chain-Link Fences
Reginald Dwayne Betts

Michigan September, Higgins Lake,
        I Release the Black Bass

Mary Jo Firth Gillett

INVISIBLE BROTHER, DARKNESS REPLACES YOU and X MARKS THE SPOT
Emily Kendal Frey

Body Parade
Doug Ramspeck



NON-FICTION


Midnight
Jennifer S. Cheng



BOOK REVIEWS


My Bird, by Fariba Vafi  
Anna Clark

The Complete Collection of people, places, & things, by John Dermot Woods
John Madera

Normal People Don't Live Like This, by Dylan Landis
Stacy Muszynski

Ever, by Blake Butler
Angela Stubbs



CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES







Unless noted, all works copyright © the author 2010.