December 2014
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Gentle Hands Will Save You
Matthew Kirkpatrick
The Meteor
Jen Michalski
Three Tales from the Japanese
Michael Mejia
Execution Letters
Forrest Roth
EXCERPTS
Crepuscule W/ Nellie
Joe Milazzo
The Arctic Circle
Kristina Marie Darling
POETRY
The Resurrection
Plum Island
Turning
Martha Rhodes
The Patient Decides She Wants to Live
Avery M. Guess
Aquarius
The Whaler
Rachel Richardson
I Imagine My Father Returns from the Dead
Martha Webster
NONFICTION
Ghosts
Anna B. Sutton
BOOK REVIEWS
Talismans by Maudelle Driskell
reviewed by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
Everywhere Stories Edited by Clifford Garstang
reviewed by Christopher X. Shade
Rope by Matty Byloos
reviewed by Lavinia Ludlow
The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World by Brian Allen Carr
reviewed by Gabino Iglesias