Abnormal 

Table of Contents

From the Editor

• •Good-bye to an Editor

  David Gessner

Fiction

• •The Incomplete Priest

  George Makana Clark

• New Animal

  Douglas Watson

• •Pétur

  Olivia Clare

• What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers

  Edith Pearlman

• Falling

  Andrew Tonkovich

• Jeff Poreé, Plasterer

  Geoff Wyss

• •Off the Track

  Callan Wink

Nonfiction

• Bat Dreams

  Lauren Slater

• Wildman

  Jen Percy

• •Observations From the Jewel Rooms

  Beth Ann Fennelly

• Of Prayer

  Lia Purpura

• Girl on the Third Floor

  Paul Crenshaw

• How Literature Saved My Life

  David Shields

Poetry

• Best Fall

  Billy Collins

• Selections from “Everything at Once”

  Christopher Merrill & Marvin Bell

• Take Me to the Lowgrounds

  Gerard Beirne

• Eve and the Extinct Things

  Janet McNally

• Bus Full of Dinosaurs

  Mark Halliday

• •Great Pine

  Mark Halliday

• The Shards Still Trembling

  Adam Giannelli

• Eurydice in Hell

  Donald Platt

• from “The Blueness”

  Bruce Smith

• Praying Mantis on a Chain-Link Fence

  Charles Harper Webb

• •People, the ghosts down in North-of-the-South aren’t see-through

  Diane Seuss

• I’m moved by her, that big-nippled girl

  Diane Seuss

• You Wonder

  Robert Wrigley

• The New Mousetrap

  Robert Wrigley

Reclamation

• On Lifting

  Darin Strauss

• My First Fee

  Isaac Babel

• The Diver

  V.S. Pritchett

Comic

• Object Lesson

  Dash Shaw