Issue Three

October 2009

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Letter from the Editor
Matt Bell

FICTION

Full Metal Jhacket
Matthew Derby

La Negra Blanca
Roxane Gay

Jockey
Sarah Norek

Un-Active Volcano
Catherine Zeidler

NOVEL EXCERPTS

The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats
Hesh Kestin

Shadowplay
Norman Lock

POETRY

Portrait of Myself as a Piece of Red Candy in Your Mouth
Mary Biddinger

Retrograde Poem
Rick Moody

Two Poems
Peter Jay Shippy

Two Poems
Ross White

NON-FICTION

Black Specks
Greg Bottoms

In Which I Move Again
Kelley Evans

BOOK REVIEWS

Driftless by David Rhodes 
Anna Clark

The Trespasser by Edra Ziesk
Diane Leach

The System of Vienna: From Heaven Street to Earth Mound Square by Gert Jonke
Josh Maday

Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca
John Madera

Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia edited by Mikhail Iossel
and Jeff Parker
Jill Meyers

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES