Issue Fifty-Four

January 2014



Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell

FICTION

A Source
William VanDenBerg

Terrible Lizards
Meghan McCarron

The Inventory of Marcus, Level 16
Simon Jacobs

Robots Make Babies
Rachel Adams

NOVEL EXCERPT

Don't Start Me Talkin'
Tom Williams

POETRY

Self-Portrait as Team Mascot
Ronan
Yourself in His Crocodile Boots
David Hernandez

Conjunct
Molly Sutton Kiefer

2003
Justin Carter

With Nothing to Bury
Maria Isabelle Carlos

NONFICTION

This Essay Cannot Sleep
Jamie Iredell

BOOK REVIEWS

Creature by Amina Cain
reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin

Commercial Fiction by Dave Housley
reviewed by Patrick Crerand

One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin
reviewed by Veronica Popp

Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, by Renee Gladman
reviewed by Tom DeBeauchamp 

 

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES