Issue Two

October 2009




LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear Reader
Matt Bell



FICTION


Full Metal Jhacket
Matthew Derby

La Negra Blanca
Roxane Gay

Jockey
Sarah Norek

Un-Active Volcano
Catherine Zeidler



NOVEL EXCERPTS


The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats
Hesh Kestin

Shadowplay
Norman Lock



POETRY


Portrait of Myself as a Piece of Red Candy in Your Mouth
Mary Biddinger

Retrograde Poem
Rick Moody

Because They Have No Mouths and Spring in the Fallen City
Peter Jay Shippy

You are Forever a Visitor in Your Own Home and A History of Deaths in Our New Colony, Complete to 1656
Ross White



NON-FICTION


Black Specks
Greg Bottoms

In Which I Move Again
Kelley Evans



BOOK REVIEWS


Driftless, by David Rhodes  
Anna Clark

The Trespasser, by Edra Ziesk
Diane Leach

The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square, by Gert Jonke
Josh Maday

Midnight Picnic, by Nick Antosca
John Madera

Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, edited by Mikhail Iossel
and Jeff Parker

Jill Meyers



CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES







Unless noted, all works copyright © the author 2009.