Front Cover
Cynthia Luhrs, Why Do We Still Make Clothes?
Back Cover
Sarah Solie, Giant Counting His Money
Comics
T. Motley, A Happy End, [link] Ever at Your Elbow, and Funny Ha Ha
Maggie McKnight, France 1993
David Axe and Matt Bors, War Is Boring [off-site]
Randall Munroe, xkcd [link]

Photography and Art

Brenna Powers, Cancer and Before Katrina Hit
Peter Schwartz, Electrotherapy, Secret Industry, The Most Nervous Thing, and If Thoughts Were Rockets

Fiction
B.J. Hollars (Winner, Fiction Award), Conservation Status of Least Concern [link]
Mike Young (Finalist, Fiction Award), Burk’s Nub
Joe Oestreich (Finalist, Fiction Award), Trouble Doll
Tina Egnoski, Veterans of a Foreign War
Michael Shannon, Encounter [link]
Poetry
C.J. Sage, If Grass Only Grew in Crew Cuts
Mary Grimm, On the Patio and What I Learned in Catholic School [link]
Susan H. Case, A Few Notes on Distortion
Charlie Clark, Thinking of Extinction [link]
Andrew Kozma, Of Ecclesiastical Principalities
Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman (Winner, Poetry Award), Kimberly Cutout
dawn lonsinger, Stitching Became a System
Kenton Wing Robinson, Rhymes With
Woody Loverude (Finalist, Poetry Award), Covenant
Ashley Davidson, Dear Chairman Mao and Dear Comrade Lenin
J.W. Wang, On the Occasion of Our Chance Meeting
Renee Wells, Being Barbie
Eric Greinke, Paul Bunyan
Rebecca Porte, Ohm’s Law
Nita Karpf, Rubato, Defined
Chip Livingston, Pica Pica and Creation Myth
Jennie Thompson, Lot’s Wife and Delicacy
Duane Locke, Email to Damniso Lopez (Unsayable)
Lynne Potts (Finalist, Poetry Award), Whole Worlds Had Already Happened
Emily Wharton, Read These Poems and Become a Winged Creature
Juliana Gray, Portrait of My Mother as the Rush Hour Traffic Report and Portrait of My Sister as a Marble Ashtray
David Shumate, Wisdom and Don Quixote [link]
Jill Beauchesne (Finalist, Poetry Award), Armistice Day
Tim Lockridge, On Realizing That I Tend to End with Nature Imagery [link]
Envoi
The Editors, Editors’ Note [link]


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Issue Six Excerpts
Charlie Clark
Mary Grimm
B.J. Hollars
Tim Lockridge
T. Motley
Michael Shannon
David Shumate
xkcd

Issue Six Table of Contents
Issue Six Contributors