Issue Forty-Three

February 2013

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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

CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES