Table of Contents

FLASH FICTION

• Carrie Olivia Adams
  Proficiency Badge
  Nin Andrews
  The Orgasm Thinks of Writing a Self Help Book
  The Orgasm Decides to Become a Poet
  Write About Yourself
  Mary Biddinger
  Partial Credit Syndrome
  Geoff Bouvier
  Cosmic Joke
  Apocalypso
  Amber Nicole Brooks
  The Girl Who Liked Sharp Objects
  Randall Brown
  Landslide
  Mark Budman
  The Fourth Night
  Kim Chinquee
  Highball
  James Claffey
  Kingmaker
  Wyn Cooper
  Plaza de Toros
  Karen Donovan
  A Lustrous, Pearly Interior
  Fire, Inc.
  Stuart Dybek
  But Blue
  First Love
  Grant Faulkner
  Love Letter No. 23
  Stefanie Freele
  People Who Sit In the Car While Someone Else Runs In
  Karen Gentry
  Trivia Night
  Sara Goldstein
  From The Great Plains
  Rav Grewal-Kök
  The Adapters
  Michael Griffith
  Prayer for the Facebook Oversharer
  Prayer for the Guy Crossing Race Street This Morning
  Tom Hazuka
  Liver
  Kathleen Heil
  Back When We Still Lived Together
  Brian Kiteley
  Dr. Black
  J. Robert Lennon
  Prayer (from the Turkish)
  Margaret Luongo
  Twelfth Night
  Agamemnon
  Death of a Salesman
  Michael Martone
  Fifteen Winesburg, Indiana Stories
  Tara L. Masih
  Erasing Maroon
  Nathan Scott McNamara
  Don’t Let Him Catch You
  Christopher Merkner
  Children at the Bar
  Clover
  New Year’s Resolution
  Little Museum
  Corey Mesler
  Waiting for the Train
  Dinty W. Moore
  The Damn Bird
  Lynn Mundell
  The Old Days
  Derek Nikitas
  We’re in the Market for a Fixer-Upper
  Martin Ott
  The Comet Rosetta Appears on American Idol
  Pamela Painter
  Help
  Lessons
  Assisted Living
  White Spaces
  Apartment Living
  Aimee Parkison
  The Tourists
  Meg Pokrass
  Cutlery
  Dawn Raffel
  Ask Us, Please
  Peter Rock
  Cemetery Weather
  Matt Sailor
  Sea Air
  Taste
  Jason Schwartz
  My Attire
  Course of the Slaughter
  Aurelie Sheehan
  The Middle Part
  Shruti Swamy
  Day is for the Living
  Dennis James Sweeney
  Retreat
  Pilgrimage
  My Family Abroad
  Myself
  Alison Titus
  Summer
  Chris Tusa
  Missing
  Lee Upton
  There Once Was a Old Woman Who Used to be a Young Girl
  Lauren Watel
  I Awoke on the Edge
  Emily Webber
  Birds in Flight
  Diane Williams
  The Forgotten Story
  Tom Williams
  Emergency Cash
  Sarah Ann Winn
  Making the Bed

ART

• Sophia Lee Borazanian
  Photograph

INTERVIEWS

• An Interview with Stuart Dybek by Josh Russell
  An Interview with Michael Martone by Josh Russell
  An Interview with Dawn Raffel by Josh Russell

SPECIAL FEATURE: HOT ROCKS #7

• Joshua Harmon
  Two Outtakes from The Annotated Mixtape