December 2009
Letter from the Editor
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
2009 Flash Fiction Contest finalist
Four Stories
Scott Garson
Twenty Questions, It's Me, and It's You
Jennifer Howard
A Name
Lindsay Merbaum
Antlers
Jim Ruland
NOVEL EXCERPT
Small Kingdoms
Anastasia Hobbet
POETRY
Two Poems
Robert Fanning
The Ones Left Inside
Ethan Joella
Two Poems
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
Dad Said He Saw You at the Mall by Ken Sparling
John Madera
The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit by Michael Zadoorian
Stacy Muszynski
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda
Max Ross