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FICTION EDITORSMatthew Luter
Ricky Werner
FICTION READERSKate Attkisson
Ben Bolling
Catalina Rivera
Catherine Rierson
Susan Thananopavarn
Zackary Vernon
FICTION INTERNSSarah Smith
Jordan Wingate
POETRY EDITORRachel Berry
POETRY READERSKatie Bowler
Matthew North Harvey
Matthew Hotham
Matthew Poindexter
Marielle Prince
Travis Smith
Henry Spelman
MANAGING EDITORHannah Bonner
ART EDITORPhilip McFee
P O E T R Y
9 JOSHUA KRYAH | Noli Me Tangere A Paradise
28 BENJAMIN GOTSCHALL | Falling
30 ROSS WHITE | Now Departing
45 CHRIS DOMBROWSKI | Small Fire in Snow
46 WILLIAM LOGAN | Marsh Hours On the Consolations of Faith On the Suburbs
60 DOBBY GIBSON & MATT HART | Making Do Slurve
78 YAEL SHINAR | There’s a War in My Country Marriage
82 THORPE MOECKEL | And Us to Water A Neighbor Thing
99 MARY JO THOMPSON | Absinthe
100 MELA KIRKPATRICK | Avery Island Sketches Elegy
F I C T I O N12 DANIEL WALLACE | Rudy
33 JEREMY WILSON | Leaving Charity
63 MATT LEIBEL | The Architect of the Impossible
87 LUCAS CHURCH | Drought Weather
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E S S AY50 CARY HOLLADAY | Dumped
R E V I E W S102 KATIE BOWLER | Sediment by Sandy Tseng
105 MATTHEW LUTER | The Name of the Nearest River by Alex Taylor
A R T4 DYLAN RAMOS | Dancing in the Moonlight
8 HÉCTOR GUERRA | Out
31 CHRISTOPHE OTERO | Don’t Forget
32 PAT DAVID | Lounging at Boo Radley’s
43 CANDIDA PERFORMA | We Two Together
44 STEVE JURVETSON |
59 DHARMA CHANDRU | Kid’s Play
62 CAMERON CASSAN | Dancer Silhouettes
81 HAMED SABER | Papion
86 SHAHRAM SHARIF | Drip
97 RE INANTE EL P INTOR DE FUEGO | Ignacio
98 KEELIN BILLUE | Peaches
104 MARK SEBASTIAN | So. First Billiards
108 Contributors
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aneurysm on a run with Tom. They hadn’t been running very
how to pace himself; Tom didn’t either. He was twenty yards
when he turned around to look saw him lying on his side on the
dog from a live one: Tom learned this quick. But he ran back
as if to save him and pulled him out of the road into a bed of
he told Leslie what happened she didn’t cry as he expected her
take it all in. Then she went out to the trunk to see him.
She still didn’t cry but he could tell she wanted to. Hurley
and Leslie had a way of exchanging knowing looks across a
lot more than he was letting on.
Tom put his arm around her and brought her close in a
DANIEL WALLACE
Rudy
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Leslie lifted her head from Tom’s shoulder. “What’s so
She looked at Tom. Air pollutionbelieve he was critiquing the way she’d chosen to leave this
actually a lot. Did you
Leslie smiled sympathetically. Tom looked at their dead dog.
notTom sighed. “Let’s bury him in the backyard. We’ll each dig
She took his hand and squeezed it. “Sounds like a good
Then he did laugh and so did she and he pulled her to
time they’d made it down to the bedroom both of them were
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Leslie closed her eyes and looked like she was about to take
a nap.
somehow this wasn’t going to be the case. Magical thinking.
Neither of them could help but think that way.
Now she was crying.
said.
searching for them. A pure black dog with a scruffy coat and
around the house; he could really scare the shit out of you. So
JEREMY WILSON 43
WE T WO TOGETHER | Candida Performa
WILLIAM LOGAN 47
On the Consolations of Faith
or a man who having murdered died unrepentant.
eased the nighthawk from the civic trees.
where hedges break a communion of berry
waiting for the Advent to come round again.
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THORPE MOECKEL
And Us to Water
The water was up again
always was a woman
that mother wanted to be
Mother always loved a little
but as though she knew memory
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poking around the ruins
hysterical and slow
required to repair the wheel.
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KID’S PLAY | Dharma Chandru
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Dave understood the rules of wrestling and made sounds of
know.
to her.
Karla had given a mean smile. Her ready scorn was scary.
people clambered down from the bleachers. The match was on
The casualness of it all seemed glamorous to me. That was a
new feeling; it was all new.
CARY HOLLADAY
Dumped
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she was waiting anxiously at home and would want me to tell
claimed several of the wrestlers as friends and had his own car:
read Look Homeward, Angel and found my own life mirrored
they expected Southerners to be illiterate.
never stopped missing Virginia. My family went back to visit
Pennsylvania’s mountains and valleys were green and rugged
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sold bread door to door. Area residents were overwhelmingly
passionate audiences of all ages. Early marriage was the norm.
Rites of adolescence included keg parties and deer hunting.
through tiny villages marked by a single stoplight. To the
about geography.
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IGNACIO | Reinante El Pintor de Fuego
LUCAS CHURCH is a North Carolina native and currently lives in
Atlanta. His work has appeared in dislocate and
Atlanta. More can be found at his infrequently updated website
lucaschurch.net.
CHRIS DOMBROWSKI is the author of By Cold Water
DOBBY GIBSON is the author of Polar (Alice James Books) and
Skirmish (Graywolf Press). The poems in this issue come from Late Makeup Years and Decline (1979-1983)
BENJAMIN GOTSCHALL grew up on a cattle ranch in the Sandhills
Where It Happenedappeared in Best New Poets 2007 Meridian Nimrod Cimarron Review The MeadoW
Wesleyan University.
MATT HART is the author of Who’s Who VividYou Are Mist
WOLF FACELight-Headed
Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. The poems in this issue of come
from Late Makeup Years and Decline (1979-1983)
C O N T R I B U T O R S
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CARY HOLLADAYThe Quick-Change Artist: Stories (Swallow
New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best. Her awards include an NEA fellowship and
MATT LEIBEL has appeared in Quarterly West The St. Ann’s Review Barcelona Review Diagramfrom Washington University in St. Louis.
WILLIAM LOGAN’S most recent book of poetry was Strange Flesh Our Savage
Art
MELA KIRKPATRICKfrom the University of North Carolina and an MFA in Poetry from
JOSHUA KRYAH’S Glean
teaches at UNLV. He is also the poetry editor of Witness.
THORPE MOECKEL’S Venisonin the writing program at Hollins University.
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YAEL SHINAR
Divinity at Harvard University. Her poetry has appeared or is
forthcoming in Mid-American Review The Drunken Boat Slush Pile Beloit Poetry Journal Meridian Third Coastpublications.
MARY JO THOMPSON is a teacher in the Minneapolis Public Schools
and an arts education consultant. Her poems have appeared or
are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal Great River Reviewand Sow’s Ear Poetry Reviewan MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson College Program for
Writers.
DANIEL WALLACE is the author of four novels and teaches at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
ROSS WHITE is the editor of Inch
bullcitypress.com). His work has appeared on Poetry Daily
and in Tar River Poetry Carolina Quarterly New England Reviewfor Writers at Warren Wilson College. He teaches creative writing
works in the School of Education.
JEREMY WILSON
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