COVER: STEELE JUSTISS
Desired Endings (painting)
INTERVIEW: Franklin Fradtner
MARIE AROUET (fiction) A Timely Rhythmic Dissonance
CALEB ASYMOV (novella) Receiver of Wreck: Derelict
POLLY BAKER (poem) Objet Petit A
MARVIN FARMER (essay) INDEPENDENCE: Why I’m Not a Democratic Socialist
FRANKLIN FRADTNER Amalgamatic Themes
STEELE JUSTISS (painting series) untitled
STEELE JUSTISS (paintings)
Forgotten Forgiven
The Desert Calls
SAUL LIPSCHITZ (poem) The Solipsist
SABRINA LOPEZ'S SCIENCE PAGE: Valence Electrons
LYSANDER NAST (political cartoons) The Senescence of Democracy, 1–6
S. D. RUMOLD (fiction) The Tale of Raphael McEriweh:
Part 1, A Brilliant Man and His Brilliant Plan
Part 2, A Brilliant Man and His Brilliant Stand
AVA SLYCOMBE (fiction) The Weal and the Woe
TIMOTHY SYNCLAIR (fiction) Brotberuf
LETICIA TRUONG Architect: Point Lobos, Gibson Creek Beach House
Steele Justiss was a Santa Fe–based artist. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, before venturing out into the high desert, where he continued to experiment with paint and form to create some truly stunning pieces.
This was a pivotal issue in the history of the magazine. It concluded the serialization of my novel Receiver of Wreck, which had been the primary catalyst for the creation of the magazine to begin with. When we first started out, if I was being realistic I knew that for RANK! #4 there was a good chance we’d end up with only a very limited run…
