February 2015
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
The Virgin
Sarah Blackman
The Gary Chaos
Nick Francis Potter
Michael & His Brother
Joshua R. Helms
One True Thing
Leslie Pietrzyk
EXCERPTS
Fancy
Jeremy M. Davies
POETRY
One buzzfeed test tells me I'm bonafide naughty, the other one tells me I got hella life skills
Danez Smith
No One Can Give You What You Take from Yourself
Home Birth Videos
Alicia Jo Rabins
Even the River
Luke Hankins
Tinkering
Jeannine Hall Gailey
NONFICTION
Recipes
Melissa Ferrone
BOOK REVIEWS
To Sleep as Animals by Douglas W. Milliken
reviewed by Justin Thurman
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
reviewed by Nora Boydston
The Infernal by Mark Doten
reviewed by Nick Kocz
Sister Golden Hair by Darcey Steinke
reviewed by Marie Curran