Table of Contents

• Two Fathers (novel excerpt)

  Madison Smartt Bell

• A Cheerful Death

  Thomas E. Kennedy

• I Dream of Microwaves

  Imad Rahman

• Mars, New York

  Nova Ren Suma

• Kissing

  Anthony G. Farrington

• Last Voyage of the St. Christopher

  Paul Ruffin

• Come in, Mr. Proust

  Edward Swift

• My Seeing Eye

  Elizabeth Antalek

• In My Oft-Quoted Guide to Clouds and Weather, Ramona

  Josh Bell

• Futility and Caprice in Yellow and Red

  John Latta

• Birdlight

  Julianne Buchsbaum

• Nightcap Questions for the Dinner Guests

  Elton Glaser

• Moon Laundry

  James Grinwis

• from The Memoirs of a Minor Deity

  Colin Hamilton

• The Butcher's Son

  Corey Marks

• Scale Model of Childhood

  Corey Marks

• The Lost Child

  Corey Marks

• About Grammar

  Mimi Mayer

• A Separate Way of Exertion

  Kevin McGowin

• Machines

  Alan Michael Parker

• Betsy McCall

  Gerry Gomez Pearlberg

• [he would care for me as a stranger: courtesy clerk. so quick]

  D.A. Powell

• [a happiest harbinger to you; here spring]

  D.A. Powell

• Illusions of Motion

  Kay Sloan

• An Empire of Bleached Bones in Fields of Yellow Sands

  Virgil Suarez

• Ghazal of the Broken

  Virgil Suarez

• The Alchemy of Self-Implosion, Or Caliban's Chaos Theory #2

  Virgil Suarez

• Because David & Jonathan

  Brian Teare

• Let Me

  Maggie Valentine

• We Need These Sacred Firehouses

  Anthony Russell White

• Landscape With Grief Train

  David Young

• The Light Collector

  David Young

• An Interview with Marie Howe

  Julie Chisolm and Jennifer Ihrig

• An Interview with William Styron

  Robert Phillips

• Untitled Works

  Dick Wray