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FICTION EDITORSMatthew Luter

Ricky Werner

FICTION READERSKate Attkisson

Ben Bolling

Catalina Rivera

Catherine Rierson

Susan Thananopavarn

Zackary Vernon

FICTION INTERNSSarah Smith

Jordan Wingate

POETRY EDITORRachel Berry

POETRY READERSKatie Bowler

Matthew North Harvey

Matthew Hotham

Matthew Poindexter

Marielle Prince

Travis Smith

Henry Spelman

MANAGING EDITORHannah Bonner

ART EDITORPhilip McFee

P O E T R Y

9 JOSHUA KRYAH | Noli Me Tangere A Paradise

28 BENJAMIN GOTSCHALL | Falling

30 ROSS WHITE | Now Departing

45 CHRIS DOMBROWSKI | Small Fire in Snow

46 WILLIAM LOGAN | Marsh Hours On the Consolations of Faith On the Suburbs

60 DOBBY GIBSON & MATT HART | Making Do Slurve

78 YAEL SHINAR | There’s a War in My Country Marriage

82 THORPE MOECKEL | And Us to Water A Neighbor Thing

99 MARY JO THOMPSON | Absinthe

100 MELA KIRKPATRICK | Avery Island Sketches Elegy

F I C T I O N12 DANIEL WALLACE | Rudy

33 JEREMY WILSON | Leaving Charity

63 MATT LEIBEL | The Architect of the Impossible

87 LUCAS CHURCH | Drought Weather

C O N T E N T S

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E S S AY50 CARY HOLLADAY | Dumped

R E V I E W S102 KATIE BOWLER | Sediment by Sandy Tseng

105 MATTHEW LUTER | The Name of the Nearest River by Alex Taylor

A R T4 DYLAN RAMOS | Dancing in the Moonlight

8 HÉCTOR GUERRA | Out

31 CHRISTOPHE OTERO | Don’t Forget

32 PAT DAVID | Lounging at Boo Radley’s

43 CANDIDA PERFORMA | We Two Together

44 STEVE JURVETSON |

59 DHARMA CHANDRU | Kid’s Play

62 CAMERON CASSAN | Dancer Silhouettes

81 HAMED SABER | Papion

86 SHAHRAM SHARIF | Drip

97 RE INANTE EL P INTOR DE FUEGO | Ignacio

98 KEELIN BILLUE | Peaches

104 MARK SEBASTIAN | So. First Billiards

108 Contributors

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aneurysm on a run with Tom. They hadn’t been running very

how to pace himself; Tom didn’t either. He was twenty yards

when he turned around to look saw him lying on his side on the

dog from a live one: Tom learned this quick. But he ran back

as if to save him and pulled him out of the road into a bed of

he told Leslie what happened she didn’t cry as he expected her

take it all in. Then she went out to the trunk to see him.

She still didn’t cry but he could tell she wanted to. Hurley

and Leslie had a way of exchanging knowing looks across a

lot more than he was letting on.

Tom put his arm around her and brought her close in a

DANIEL WALLACE

Rudy

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Leslie lifted her head from Tom’s shoulder. “What’s so

She looked at Tom. Air pollutionbelieve he was critiquing the way she’d chosen to leave this

actually a lot. Did you

Leslie smiled sympathetically. Tom looked at their dead dog.

notTom sighed. “Let’s bury him in the backyard. We’ll each dig

She took his hand and squeezed it. “Sounds like a good

Then he did laugh and so did she and he pulled her to

time they’d made it down to the bedroom both of them were

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Leslie closed her eyes and looked like she was about to take

a nap.

somehow this wasn’t going to be the case. Magical thinking.

Neither of them could help but think that way.

Now she was crying.

said.

searching for them. A pure black dog with a scruffy coat and

around the house; he could really scare the shit out of you. So

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WE T WO TOGETHER | Candida Performa

WILLIAM LOGAN 47

On the Consolations of Faith

or a man who having murdered died unrepentant.

eased the nighthawk from the civic trees.

where hedges break a communion of berry

waiting for the Advent to come round again.

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THORPE MOECKEL

And Us to Water

The water was up again

always was a woman

that mother wanted to be

Mother always loved a little

but as though she knew memory

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poking around the ruins

hysterical and slow

required to repair the wheel.

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KID’S PLAY | Dharma Chandru

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Dave understood the rules of wrestling and made sounds of

know.

to her.

Karla had given a mean smile. Her ready scorn was scary.

people clambered down from the bleachers. The match was on

The casualness of it all seemed glamorous to me. That was a

new feeling; it was all new.

CARY HOLLADAY

Dumped

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she was waiting anxiously at home and would want me to tell

claimed several of the wrestlers as friends and had his own car:

read Look Homeward, Angel and found my own life mirrored

they expected Southerners to be illiterate.

never stopped missing Virginia. My family went back to visit

Pennsylvania’s mountains and valleys were green and rugged

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sold bread door to door. Area residents were overwhelmingly

passionate audiences of all ages. Early marriage was the norm.

Rites of adolescence included keg parties and deer hunting.

through tiny villages marked by a single stoplight. To the

about geography.

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IGNACIO | Reinante El Pintor de Fuego

LUCAS CHURCH is a North Carolina native and currently lives in

Atlanta. His work has appeared in dislocate and

Atlanta. More can be found at his infrequently updated website

lucaschurch.net.

CHRIS DOMBROWSKI is the author of By Cold Water

DOBBY GIBSON is the author of Polar (Alice James Books) and

Skirmish (Graywolf Press). The poems in this issue come from Late Makeup Years and Decline (1979-1983)

BENJAMIN GOTSCHALL grew up on a cattle ranch in the Sandhills

Where It Happenedappeared in Best New Poets 2007 Meridian Nimrod Cimarron Review The MeadoW

Wesleyan University.

MATT HART is the author of Who’s Who VividYou Are Mist

WOLF FACELight-Headed

Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking, & Light Industrial Safety. The poems in this issue of come

from Late Makeup Years and Decline (1979-1983)

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CARY HOLLADAYThe Quick-Change Artist: Stories (Swallow

New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best. Her awards include an NEA fellowship and

MATT LEIBEL has appeared in Quarterly West The St. Ann’s Review Barcelona Review Diagramfrom Washington University in St. Louis.

WILLIAM LOGAN’S most recent book of poetry was Strange Flesh Our Savage

Art

MELA KIRKPATRICKfrom the University of North Carolina and an MFA in Poetry from

JOSHUA KRYAH’S Glean

teaches at UNLV. He is also the poetry editor of Witness.

THORPE MOECKEL’S Venisonin the writing program at Hollins University.

CONTRIBUTORS 109

YAEL SHINAR

Divinity at Harvard University. Her poetry has appeared or is

forthcoming in Mid-American Review The Drunken Boat Slush Pile Beloit Poetry Journal Meridian Third Coastpublications.

MARY JO THOMPSON is a teacher in the Minneapolis Public Schools

and an arts education consultant. Her poems have appeared or

are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal Great River Reviewand Sow’s Ear Poetry Reviewan MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson College Program for

Writers.

DANIEL WALLACE is the author of four novels and teaches at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

ROSS WHITE is the editor of Inch

bullcitypress.com). His work has appeared on Poetry Daily

and in Tar River Poetry Carolina Quarterly New England Reviewfor Writers at Warren Wilson College. He teaches creative writing

works in the School of Education.

JEREMY WILSON

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