February 2013
Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell
FICTION
The Heartbreak of Psoriasis
Robert Lopez
How far away we seem
Iris Moulton
The Wife's Lament
William Emery
from For a Time I Lived There
Sam Martone
EXCERPTS
Could You Be With Her Now
Jen Michalski
POETRY
Dungeon Master's Guide to Eighth Grade
Amorak Huey
Meditation on a Line from Pound
Frail Insect
Joseph Chapman
Cedar Swing
B.L. Gentry
Self-Portrait as Claudia Kishi, Vice President of The Babysitters' Club
Rachelle Cruz
NON-FICTION
from Tiny Gradations of Loss
Nicholas Grider
BOOK REVIEWS
Mother and Child by Carole Maso
reviewed by Kathryn Houghton
Inscriptions for Headstones by Matthew Vollmer
reviewed by Chris Vola
Embodied by Keith Nathan Brown
reviewed by Joe Milazzo
Collapsible Horizon by Tantra Bensko
reviewed by Yuriy Tarnawsky