Cover art — Night Wait, painting by Dana Oldfather
Nonfiction
Professor
Kate Russell
Style and the Subjunctive
Jeff Porter
When an Ox Blinks
Catherine Reid
Bites
Michael Hemery
It’s a Small, Small World
Henry Ronan-Daniell
Interview
How to Teach Excitement: An Interview with Alexander Chee
Matt Salesses
Book Reviews
Once the Shore, Paul Yoon
Matt Salesses
Light Boxes, Shane Jones
Brooks Sterritt
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, edited by Tara L. Masih
Joshua Garstka
The Method, Sasha Steensen
Emily Thomas
Yellowrocket, Todd Boss
Linwood Rumney
Fiction
Placebo
Kenneth Calhoun
License to Kill
Sherman Alexie
Bomblet
Sabrina Tom
Our Anniversary, Repeated
Blake Butler
Confession
John Paul Stadler
Excavation
Tom Barlow
Wodwo
Dan Chaon
Tom’s Mother Died in New Jersey
Michael Kimball
RE: Your Novel
Robert Travieso
The House on Whaler Bay
Carolyn Watson
Poetry
Textile Workers
Amjad Nasser, translated by Khaled Mattawa
Chance
Amjad Nasser, translated by Khaled Mattawa
One Flower
Amjad Nasser, translated by Khaled Mattawa
1955
Amjad Nasser, translated by Khaled Mattawa
X-Ray Vision
Noel Sloboda
This Winter I’ve Spent a Considerable Amount of Time Dreaming About Grandmothers
Anna Lowe
Monosonnet for Colonialism, Interrupted
Sherman Alexie
With a Child
Franz Wright
Forever Stamp
Krista Benjamin
Neck, Rifting
Daneen Wardrop
Tinnitus Valentine
Erin Keane
Appalachian Spring
John Savoie
Alternative Medicine
Jennifer Faylor
Deployment
Marie Kutz-Marks
Winter Counts
Jackie Bartley
Post Script
Kevin Prufer
Near Whiteman Air Force Base
Kevin Prufer
Customs
Christian Anton Gerard
Lathered
Matt Siegel
Foreign Film at the Garman Opera House
Ryan Tietman
To the Feeling
Christian Barter
A Thousand Drums
Pablo Medina
The Fire Eaters of Baghdad
Pablo Medina
Art
My Darkest Thinkings
Enaer
The Watcher
Jeff Foster
Duck Duck Goose
Calamity Cole
Sinking
Calamity Cole
Earwitness (harmonics rising in ultrasonic range)
Sarah Walko
What are you lookin’ at?
Julie Kitzes
Helen
Joseph Sobel
Shot in Georgia #2, from the “Shot in Georgia: Bumpkin Hybrids to Open the Eyelids” series
John Oliver Hodges
Shot in Georgia #3, from the “Shot in Georgia: Bumpkin Hybrids to Open the Eyelids” series
John Oliver Hodges
Adult Games
Vladimir Vitkovsky
Carte
Vladimir Vitkovsky
The Birdsketchers
Cherri Wood
She Ties Laces Very Differently
Cherri Wood
Lathered
Nicolas Vallejos
Doug’s Barn
Denise Hansen
Harlem Pose
Allen Jeffrey Thompson
Everyone Reaches Out Somehow
Michael Garfield
Myth
Marina Korenfeld