Table of Contents
Introduction Brett Garcia Myhren ix
Ten Seconds in Two Lives Alberto Álvaro Ríos 1
From New Letters
The Decline of the American Bison Daniel Hamilton 13
From Nimrod International Journal
Buffalo Cactus Sierra Bellows 33
From Gulf Coast
The Splinter Ron Carlson 51
From the Mississippi Review
The Men We Used to Be Alex Espinoza 59
From the Virginia Quarterly Review
Lugar Tranquilo Judy Troy 71
From Epoch
Circus Circus Robert Rosenberg 77
From the Cimarron Review
The Bullet of a Gun Jill Kato 95
From the Threepenny Review
Looking Out José Skinner 101
From Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices
Drownproofing Matthew Blumenthal 111
From the Southern Review
In the Time of Rocks Toni Jensen 131
From Ecotone
Adulthood Robin Romm 143
From Gulf Coast
Forty Days in the Desert R.T. Jamison 159
From the Kenyon Review
To the Whirlwinds Tacey M. Atsitty 179
From Prairie Schooner
Old News, Unverified Jennifer Bowen Hicks 183
From the Iowa Review
Ocean-Friendly Cuisine Corey Campbell 197
From the Colorado Review
What My Daughter Is Holding Kelsie Hahn 217
From the Southeast Review
Fence Alex Wilson 219
From the Southwest Review
Jack, July Victor Lodato 229
From the New Yorker
The Grand Canyon Brock Clarke 249
From Ecotone
Ordinary Sins Kirstin Valdez Quade 253
From the New Yorker
Contributors 271
Credits 277
