End of the Day

Letter from the Editors
In This Issue


FICTION



Grafting by Samantha Cohen
Cure and Tender by Tessa Fontaine
The General’s Dinner by John Haggerty
Walking, an Excerpt from Memory Alone by Abeer Hoque
Before I Left, Excerpt from What I Left When I Left by Catherine Lacey
Half the Distance to the Goal Line by Tara Laskowski
What the Barber Knows by Lawrence Lenhart
On the Matter of Mallory Sylvester-Vaughan by Ben Philippe
Wonderlic by Jim Walke

Interview with Josh Barkan by Rachel Mangini
This is Not a Wells Tower Interview by Jen Howard



NONFICTION



That Unknown by Hannah Buckland
Dear Bridge Jumper by B.J. Hollars
A Disaster That is Ours by Laurence Ross

Interview with Evan Ratliff
by Amanda Giracca




POETRY



Serena Chopra

Excerpt from “Livid Season”

Charmi Keranen

Low Ceilings
The Well-Tempered Clavicle

Steve Klepetar

My Father Opens the Door to His Cave

Sida Li

Superhuman Origins

Sally Wen Mao

Alight
Elevator Music for a Frog
Kundiman

Oliver de la Paz

Dear Empire [these are your billboards]
Dear Empire [these are your engines]
Dear Empire [these are your guns]
Dear Empire [these are your laws]

dan raphael

Inland Northwest

Steven D. Schroeder

Better Consider My Natural Resources

Peter Schwartz

gentle heavy

Quinn White

The Mailman

Angela Veronica Wong

Excerpt from “What We Learn about Trust”

Interview with Terrance Hayes by Lauren Russell