Issue 15, Winter 2009: First love. She is a favourite drug, mother of all kicks, unleashing her whip in measured cycles, striking you down just to lift you back up. Shown her limits, given enough time, she may slowly grow true.
In this issue
- Héctor Abad, Less forgotten as he shall be
- Gini Alhadeff, Muppets coloured in rose
- Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Gatecrasher
- Yves Berger, We know we are flying
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, Life just keeps playing like boys with toys
- Neil Burgess collection, Weddings
- Andrew Cross, My model childhoood
- Paul Davis, Untitled
- Umberto Eco, Infatuated with armies of angels
- William Goldsmith, A nose so pure
- Ben Jones, Tattoo love
- Sam Kaprielov, Signal
- Dmitri Kasterine, A girl with her pony
- Sandor Márai, Darling, here's some truth
- Sophia Martineck, Petshop
- Karen McLeod, To the sounds of Julie
- Roderick Mills, Astounding
- Henrietta Molinaro, Loves me, loves me not
- David Moore, Adonis
- Osamu James Nakagawa, Hikari, from the series 'Kai: following the cycle of life'
- Jason Orton, Canvey Island
- Benjamin Phillips, Ugly dream
- Lucía Puenzo, Show me what I cannot have
- Tracy Quan, Intoxicating in her tireless appetite
- Laura Quick, Untitled
- Christopher Ricks, Early fumblings in the dark
- Simon Roberts, We English
- Vincenzo Ruggiero, Go gentle into that last fight
- George Szirtes, No high-octane pang of desire
- Cheryl Taylor, Wheel of emotion
- Craig Taylor, Mother's subtle chopping board
- Brian Ulrich, Disney
- Hans van der Meer, Consett, England, 2004
- Mario Vargas Llosa, The frog who punched the princess awake
- Edmund White, Gulps of Davud between Helena
- Evie Wyld, With a giant ghost crab hatching in your chest
- Robert Zaretsky, Ever returning to the same sea and her silence
