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    From the Editors

    Lelandismo

    In which the editors eat cookies (Thin Mints, specifically), play mad libs, and give Emily Barrett Browning what for.

    This Issue's Writers

    JACKIE BASU is a junior from Palos Verdes, CA
    CAROLINE CHEN is a sophomore from Hong Kong
    DANIEL GRATCH is a junior from New York, NY
    JOY HENRY is a senior from Inglis, FL
    ERIC KARPAS is a sophomore from Livingston, NJ
    LEIGH LUCAS is a senior from Bethesda, MD
    MELISSA RUNSTEN is a senior from Alpharetta, GA
    SETH WINGER is a junior from Santa Clarita, CA

Fiction

featuredimage The Rattlesnake

by Eric Karpas

The spider struggled silently to construct its web between the rotting oak of the porch floor and the sagging cloth of the dusty hammock.

featuredimage So what, come and get me, I know you

by Joy Henry

“We’ve been vacationing at this beach since Grace was a tiny one, staying at this hotel,” Dad says, to my boyfriend John.

Creative Non-Fiction

The Village

by Seth Winger

I’ve driven up to the front gate several times in the last two and a half weeks, but the guard on duty isn’t one I recognize: a man—not much older than I am but a lot larger—who looks cramped in the small booth.

Poetry

Spring Poetry

In our Spring 2010 issue, enjoy Married Life by Caroline Chen, Monday Night Dinner by Melissa Runsten, Beraka Is a Part of My Consciousness by Daniel Gratch, and The Weight of Angels and The Song of a Carnival Killing by Leigh Lucas.

Criticism

Memory, Identity, and Portrait-Images

by Jackie Basu
So. The ceci n’est pas crew has thrown down a hefty gauntlet: do faux-pipe, faux-bed images have value or weight in our living world of bodies and motion?