#56
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Abbie J. Bergdale
• Stuck Town
Tyler Enfield
• Novolin
Shannon Willitts Falk
• From Bail to Jail: What Happens in Between
Louis E. Bourgeois
• Interview with Barry Hannah: Bat Out of Hell
Margaret K. Özemet
• Dog in Black Lace Panties
Henry Ronan-Daniell
• Like a Horror Movie without a Monster
Irene Turner
• How Not to Get Work Done on Amtrak
Poetry
Abdul Ali
• The Subway Me
• Burying the N-Word
Nin Andrews
• My Life as a Bull
• The Unattainable Orgasm
• The Last Orgasm
Bonnie Auslander
• A Brief History of Fasteners
Bridget Bell
• Pink Skin, No Feathers
Billie Bernard
• The Door’s Mistake
Jen Bills
• Necklace
Amy Knox Brow
• Let’s Pretend
• The Turkey Buzzards
Callista Buchen
• Ode to Competitive Scrabble Players
John F. Buckley
• Best-Seling Children’s Books According to the Salinas Scarab
Nancy Naomi Carlson
• The Hat
Emily Carr
• Chapter 8: (& When Hope Returned It was Another Hope Entirely)
Gladys Justin Carr
• Love Story
Joan Colby
• The Names of Torture
Anne Colwell
• Titus’s Hand
• In the Ladies’ Bathhouse
Nina Corwin
• Rehearsal Dream with Upright Bass
Chella Courington
• Redder than Diane’s Lipstick
J. P.
• Dancing Bear Lung
Kristina Marie
• Darling Dearest V.
Kelly Davio
• Children’s Art is Asylum Art
Andrea DeFoe
• The Beast from the Lake and the Beast from the Forest
Jaydn DeWald
• Silent Cortège
Brendan Egan
• The Back Porch is the All Sliver-giving Paint Job
Renee Emerson
• No One Can Camp Next to a Kentucky Redneck
Phil Estes
• I am Enron and Josephine is My Samurai Poet Trained by Birds
Benjamin Evans
• Cheever in Blufton
Naoko Fujimoto
• Meadowsweet, Koi Kokoro
Bernadette Geyer
• Myopia: A Parable
Joseph Goosey
• Hiatus Is Widespread and Thickening
Kevin Griffith
• Eating the Piano
Will Grofic
• Dan Cemetery
Jim Gross
• Sourdough 1955
• Song for a Suicide
Ian Haight
• Peacock Meditation at a Thai Nunnery
Brenda
• Hammack – Syssigy
James Harms
• Anorak Pop
Marc Harshman
• A Proper Decorum
Jaimee Hills
• Tonight the Character of Death Will Be Played by Brad Pitt
Emily Homrok
• UNDERGROUND
Anna Maria Hong
• DOY DOY
Amorak Hue
• Guzzle
Dani Raschel Jimene
• Healing
Jeffrey N. Johnson
• Nine-Month Lease
Michael Johnson
• The Executioner
Suzanne Karpilovsky
• How the Radical Gods Left the Woods
David Keplinger
• On Deciding Not to Enter the Museum of Torture
Jascha Kessler
• A Golden Anniversary
Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom
• Contingency
Sean Lause
• Kafka Lived
Laura LeHew
• The Bunny Hoarder
Grisella Martinez
• Con Safo
Susan Maurer
• Desiderata
Gerald A. McBreen
• Delicacies
Gary L. McDowell
• Child-Rearing
Erika Meitner
• 69
Brown Miller
• To Come Back and to Sing
Elisabeth Murawski
• Elegy for Green Eyes
Weam Namou
• The Veil of Vanilla and Fire
Carissa Neff
• Physex
• Distress over the Damsel
Gerald Nicosia
• Dadio Pete
• The Beats in China
• First Chinese Breakfast
B. Z. Niditch
• Frank O’Hara in Soho
Saïdeh Pakravan
• What I heard this morning
Earl Patrick
• A Teardrop Fracture of the C4 Vertebral Body
Simon Perchik
• *
Nanette Rayman Rivera
• Fate Discovers a Fish
Stephen R. Roberts
• In Remembrance of the Creature
Kathleen Rooney
• ’Tis the Season to Submit
Jenny Sadre-Orafai
• Instructions for the Cheat
• Floating Above the City to Irving Berlin
James Schlatter
• Conception of Skolopendra
E. M. Schorb
• The Final Tithe
Gregory Sherl
• Basic Cable
Lucy Simpson
• Transformation in White
Ronnie Sirmans
• Lot and Daedalus
William Soule
• Remembering Father
Carlie St. George
• Brains
David Starkey
• Renaissance Humor
• To the Science Professor across the Canyon, Who Died
D. E. Steward
• Latrine
Kurt Straube
• For M. B.
Emily Tallman
• Backstage at the 1999 Miss California Pageant
Simon A. Thalmann
• Maybe Boston
Holly Welker
• 1812 Overture
• Dalliance
• Mortality
Emma Sky Wolf
• Time for Herself
Kathi Wolfe
• If I Have to Leave
Joseph P. Wood
• Good Night Nobody, Good Night Mush
Deborah Woodard
• Junior High Bathing Suit Muse
Ernie Wormwood
• Emily
Charles Edward Wright
• e
Ed Zahniser
• Treatment Plan
Fiction
Graphics
Forrest Aguirre
• Fosiloctopus
Naoko Awa
• A Summer’s Dream
Matt Bell
• Edgar, Edric, Eduardo
R. E. Bowse
• Our Mother, Like a Kite
Hadley Boyd
• Inner Landscape
Ryan W. Bradley
• Motherhood
Blair Braverman
• Watching Russia
Ken Brosky
• I Just Can’t Turn It Off
Monica Byrne
• The Reclamation Rite of One April Nora Hess
Caryn Coyle
• Delusions
Stephanie Dickinson
• When the Snow Leopard Stalks the River
Amy Dodgen
• Realistic Painting for the Blind
Robert Epstein
• Comments on a Book Reproducing an Ancient Bas-Relief Sculpture
Colin Fleming
• Piles, or, Climaxing in a Forest Fire
Abby Frucht
• Old Inn Door
Jeremy Garrett
• In the Library
Roxane Gay
• How the Girl in the Glass Sheds Her Skin
Luke Geddes
• Betty and Veronica
Greg Gerke
• Mother and Son
Hilary Goldstein
• The Dream Eater
Peter Grandbois
• Appliances
Dustin M. Hoffman
• Zombies! Rodemom!
Karen Holman
• Paper House
Ani Kachbalian
• When Blowfish Forget Love
Christina Kapp
• Things to Do When It Rains
Zane Kotker
• What’s Wrong with Sushi?
Dylan Landis
• Centrifuge
Michael Landweber
• Amuse Bouche
laudanum at 33
• from “Flannel Bell”
Marti Leimbach
• Nicky, Aged 10
Alexander Lumans
• Cormac McCarthy, Walmart Greeter
Ravi Mangl
• Hair
Sam J. Miller
• The Last Sleepover
Shilo Morlang
• A Bicycle Built for Two
Amy Ng
• Shoes
Kevin O’Cuinn
• Un Sac Comme Le Mien
G. C. Perry
• The Doughnut Eaters
Meg Pokrass
• Underneath
• Surrogate
Glen Pourciau
• Bounce
Eman Quotah
• Glory
Shannon Robinson
• How to Get a Man
Fred Skolnik
• Adrift in the Global Village
Emma Straub
• Soap
Susan Tepper
• Glue
Anne-E. Wood
• Theater of the Sea
Geoff Wyss
• Arms
Brigit Kelly Young
• The Raccoon Chronicles
Shellie Zacharia
• The Arborist Shows Up on Saturday Afternoon
Tom Chambers
• Icy Road (cover)
Lydia Conklin
• Farm Kitties
Lydia Conklin
• About a Tear
Interviews
Barry Hannah
• Bat Out of Hell
Interviewed by Louis E. Bourgeois