October 2011
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
Driving in the Early Dark, Ted Falls Asleep
Joseph Scapellato
Weimaraner
Kate Lorenz
Defunct Girl Gangs of North American Drive-Ins
Luke Geddes
Hike
Lincoln Michel
EXCERPTS
Nothing
Blake Butler
Damascus
Joshua Mohr
Fires
Nick Antosca
Galerie de Difformité
Gretchen E. Henderson
POETRY
Still Life with Game, Champagne, and Vegetables
Family Portrait #3
Chiyuma Elliott
Microscopy
Tomás Q. Morín
Mantletree
Louisa Diodato
Salad Days
Dream Park
Brittany Cavallaro
NON-FICTION
Three Short Memoirs
Gregory Sherl
CREATIVE AUDIO
Climb That Mountain
Aaron Gilbreath
BOOK REVIEWS
The Book of Freaks by Jamie Iredell
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp
A Man of Glass & All the Ways We Have Failed by J.A. Tyler
reviewed by Nick Francis Potter
There is Something Inside, It Wants to Get Out by Madeline McDonnell
reviewed by Art Edwards
Life on Sandpaper by Yoram Kaniuk
reviewed by Nathan Huffstutter
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
reviewed by Anna Clark
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES