COVER: MELISSA WALTER
Horned Tongue on Rails (stippling)
INTERVIEW: Leticia Truong
MIKEY ANDERSON (photo story) Mikey & Milan: A First Date
ALEC V. BAYMOS / TERRENCE WINTHROP (poem/annotations) The Touch Stone, Part IV
S. ANNE CURRAN Epistolization of Oliver J.: 1–5 Epistles
MATT DEVLIN (fiction) Vigilance
FRANKLIN FRADTNER Amalgamatic Themes
PABLO HERMINE (fiction) An Irresistible Discovery
SABRINA LOPEZ'S SCIENCE PAGE: Entropy
CAMILA RAMONE (fiction) Blowin' the Stars from the Sky
MICHELLE REESE (fiction) My Heart Was an Ocean or The Cars, the Rain, the Rolling Skies
ARIA SWAN (disjointed essay) What’s the Big Idea?
TIMOTHY SYNCLAIR (novella) The Asymbolic
HENRY THOMAS (poem/photo series) Delusional:
i know
i wish
i’m sorry
LETICIA TRUONG Architect: Chowchilla River Estate
MELISSA WALTER (stippling series) Lines and Dots and Rulers
SOLOMON WEST (essay) Letters to an American Friend, Third Letter
Melissa Walter is a San Diego–based artist. She uses detailed geometric drawings and sculptures to visually explore concepts concerning astronomy and astrophysical theories, building off her years of experience as a graphic designer and science illustrator for NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
Going in we had no idea RANK! #10 would be the last “standard” issue we would put out (at least for now…fingers crossed). But even if we had known, we could hardly have put together a better, more appropriate representation of the magazine. With this issue…