Oxford American # 89, Summer 2015

POINTS SOUTH

Asking for Directions, by Jamie Quatro

Origin Stories, a story by Nick Fuller Googins

Three Friends in a Hammock, a story by April Ayers Lawson

Burst Pods, Gone-by, Tangled Aster, a story by Christine Schutt

Dithyrambalina, by Delaney Nolan

Confessions, three stories by David Means

Untold Story, a story by Jayne Anne Phillips

Eff Scott, by Harrison Scott Key

The Sinkhole, by Keith O’Brien

Common Ground, by Courtney Balestier

Like a One-Eyed Cat, by Randal O'Wain

FEATURES

Swinger
A story by Jill McCorkle

Making Love
A story by Antonya Nelson

A Local's Guide to Dating in Slocomb County
A story by Chris Drangle

The G.R.I.E.F.
A story by Micah Stack

Do Not Save the Ferocious, Save the Tender
a story by Ramona Ausubel

Five Encounters with Vegetation
by Will Blythe

POETRY

Four Poems
by David McCombs

Of Thorns
Trundle
Liquid Assets
The Hill Itself

OMNIVORE

The Metcalfiad
Ben Metcalf's sentences of feeling
by Wyatt Mason

Cooking with Chris:
Making the Water
by Chris Offutt



Art by: Isabel M. Martinez, Leanne Surfleet, Ben Couvillon, Jeffrey Whittle, John Baldessari, Tatum Shaw, Natalie Faye, Andre Petterson, Katie Kline, Michelle Arcila, Burk Uzzle, Wendy Given, Walker Pickering, David Bowman, Annie Wentzell, Galina Kurlat, Katherine Wolkoff, Tom Martin, Kehinde Wiley, Eleanor Davis, Bradley Castellanos, Bo Bartlett, Andrew Kodama

Cover: “Dock #1” © Isabel M. Martinez (2011), from the series Quantum Blink