Issue Four
November 2009
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Dear Reader
Matt Bell
FICTION
Amazing Peter
Chad Benson
Children Have Small Ghosts, Et Cetera
Lance Olsen and Andi Olsen
Another Kind of Weight
Kate Petersen
Running Night
Cooper Renner
POETRY
Bruise and The boy pretending to be dead
Arlene Ang
Hero
Stephen Dobyns
Cold Motel Room
Judy Huddleston
The Last Roost
and Running Down From the Hills
Keith Taylor
BOOK REVIEWS
The Bigness of the World, by Lori Ostlund 
Anna Clark
Translation is a Love Affair, by Jacques Poulin
Nicolle Elizabeth
The Suburban Swindle, by Jackie Corley
John Madera
Girl Trouble, by Holly Goddard Jones
Jill Meyers
The Southern Cross, by Skip Horack
Stacy Muszynski
The Halfway House, by Guillermo Rosales
Anis Shivani
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.
