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Ryan Black
Goodbye, Piccadilly
A Gun to the Heart of the City
Kelly Cherry
Burn After Reading, or Ghostwriting
Lost in
Translation
Charlie Clark
Fundamental Attribution Error
These Are the
Insects
Leigh Anne Couch
Lapse
Wild Pigs
Lisa Fay
Coutley
Leash Training
Kwame Dawes
Bones in the Soil
The Vanishing
Broth
Claudia Emerson
Face
Blindness
Single Shot
Christopher Emery
A Letter to the Sacred Ibis
Henry Hart
Anniversary on the Lookout Tower
A Teacher’s
Story
Zach
Hester
End Times
October is a Fine and Dangerous Season in America
James Hoch
Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky
Michael Hurley
Barnum at the Grave of Charles “Tom Thumb”
Stratton
Mark Jarman
Old Haunts
Our Father Who Art Somewhere Now, We Hope
Holly Karapetkova
Another Immigrant Story
Fragments
Reconstructed from a Poem
There Are Boats
Joey Kingsley
Limits of the Burning World
Gail
Martin
To My Hips, Both Removed
Holaday Mason
Mother, Before Cremation/Me, Standing Before A
Mirror Later
Unwoven
Charlotte Matthews
My Daughter Gets Her Wisdom Teeth Extracted
Edward Mayes
All Must
The Lost Art of Piping Down
Se
Non è Vero, è Ben Trovato
Amy O’Reilly
Postmortem, Postpartum
What Our Son’s Birth
Has Taught Us
Ösel
Jessica Plante
Weightless
Erin Rodoni
Maybe It Was Summer
While hunting
mummies at the British Museum
Jacob Strautmann
I Dream I Meet Irene McKinney at the Ruined
House of the Photographer
School Bus Brocade
Christian Teresi
Words in a Dead Girl’s Mouth
Idea Vilariño
translated from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Cursed Be the Day
The Night
Reasons
William Woolfitt
1912: Hush Harbor