VOLUME 16, 2010
Volume 16, Number 2
April 2010
Larry French
Three More Stories
C. Rusch
The Man Who Buried His Dogs in the Front Yard
Karen Kevorkian
Queen of the Night
Michael Dermansky
Intraocular Pressure
Ben Greenman
Skunk
Tom Drury
Thanksgiving
Alyson Hagy
Graveyard of the Atlantic
Craig Nova
Rattlesnake
Martin Naparstek
Getting Shot
Stephen Graham Jones
Cops & Robbers
Robert Olen Butler
"Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac"
John Holman
Benefactors
Volume 16, Number 1
Flash Fictions Edited by
Kim Chinquee
Peter Grandbois
TV Head
Darlin Neal
Legs
Carrie Spell
Map
VOLUME 15, 2009
Volume 15, Number 4
Fall Nonfiction/Nonpoetry
Jane Armstrong:
Introduction
David Shields:
Contradiction
(excerpt from Reality Hunger:
A Manifesto)
Sean Singer:
Freud Knows
Sean Singer:
Van Gogh
Legerdemain
Liz Scheid:
Jellyfish
Nick Ripatrazone:
Patriots’
Path
Jaime Shearn Coan:
Rubylith
Ryan Ridge:
Awayward
Functions
Berman Black:
Construction Management
Gary Percesepe:
In
the Hamptons
Steve Fellner:
You’ve
Got to Read This
Nicole Walker:
Oil and Water
Kristen Iskandrian:
Friendship, A Semiotics
Megan Mayhew Bergman:
How to
Make Collard Greens
Brandon Lingle:
Quakes
Don Sherwood Olson:
Triggerman
Dinty W. Moore:
Self
Critique
Volume 15, Number 3
Susan Kim Campbell
Jump Andy Plattner Hip Aunt
Janet John Givens
The
Buddha-nature of the Horse Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
No
people without dogs Lauren
Spohrer
Boys and
Girls in
America
Have Such a Sad Time Together Stephanie Janiak
Family Dinner Sara McKinnon
A Full Hand
Carrie Spell
A Dirty, Dirty Place Cecilia Pinto
The Wedding Party
Mark Budman
Lot’s
Wife Kim Ponders
Conquistadors
of
Los Angeles Myfanwy Collins
Wash,
Dry, Fold Fortunato Salazar
Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump; or, Three
Variations on My Father as Seamster Christine
Crutchfield
Pray for Rain Reese Kwon
Christine Jiyoung Yi Ingram
Volume 15, Number
2
Wandering the Archive II
Stacey Richter
The Beauty Treatment
Terese
Svoboda Weatherproof
Vicki Hendricks
Gators
John Holman I Did That
R.H.W. Dillard
In the Silent Secret
Dark
Russell Edson
The Moonlighters
Myopia
John Minichillo
Two Lifetime Members of the N.R.A. Who Loved Guns and Life Itself
Rick Bass
Fiber
Rita Dove Exit
Golden Oldie
Wiring Home
Elizabeth Gilbert Tall Folks
Volume 15, Number 1
Wandering the Archive
VOLUME 14, 2008
Volume 14, Number 4
The Ekphrasis Issue
Editor Jane Armstrong
Jane Armstrong
Introduction to the Ekphrasis Issue
Carolyn Moore
The Next Time Art Seduces You
Kerry Krouse
Wax and Gold V
Tom Holmes
As with Energy, So with Form—Henri Thinks
Through His Sculpture
Dorothee Lang
Room 2
Sacha Siskonen
22 Ways of Looking at Chagall
Shawn Huelle
Excerpt from the novella A Determination
of Parts
Ben Debus
Three Studies of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu
Ann Lightcap Bruno
Three Takes on Brassai
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Elevator Girl Brand
Susan Varnot
Matisse: Seated Pink Nude
Brenda Yates
The Etruscan Fire Poker
Tuvia Ruebner
Translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz with Shahar Bram
The Ambassadors
Jacob Bathanti
Looking at Churches
Gary Lehmann
Unless I Feel the Wound
Sarah Sarai
St. Sarah Sarai Carrying the Infant Christ
Child
Bob Bradshaw
Claude Monet: Camille on her Death Bed
Volume 14, Number 3
The Lit Mag at 100
Editors Travis Kurowski
& Gary Percesepe
(Click the cover image for a PDF file of the issue)
Volume 14, Number 2
The Movies Issue
Guest Editors Jurgen Fauth and
Marcy Dermansky
(click image for PDF file)
The 2007 Prize Issue
Volume 14, Number 1
(no longer available)
VOLUME 13, 2007
Volume 13, Number 4
Hyperextended
Family
Editor:
Darlin' Neal
Darlin' Neal
Introduction
Nikki Bazar
Orphans
Alice K. Boatwright
Survivors
Kim Chinquee
Wiener
T. J. Forrester
Hand
Me Down Blood
Heather Fowler
A Cat for Greta
Tiff Holland
The
Boys
Liesl Jobson
One Hundred
Babies
Jeff Landon
Harmony
and Eggs
Jana Martin
Painter
Mary Miller
Full
Nathan Oates
Theft
Jim Ruland
Redshanks Regrets
Claudia Smith
Jennies
Michael F. Smith
You
and Peggy and That Dog
Girija Tropp
No
Strange Circle
Girija Tropp
Paradise
Beach
Joan Wilking
Hush
Volume 13, Number
3
New
Fiction Issue
Editor, Gary Percesepe
Gary Percesepe
Introduction
Jane Armstrong
Putting Water Into the Air
Ann Beattie
My Life At The Very Top
Kim Chinquee
Shot Girls
J. A. Chisum
The Parable of Casper and Paul Clark
John Holman
Vacation
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Not Me Shot Dead
Mark Lafferty
Song and Dance
Jeff Landon
Lifelike Baby Girls
Tao Lin
The Existentially Fucked Megamouth Shark
Tao Lin
Tao
Lin
Mary Miller
Even the Interstate Is Pretty
Bonnie Nadzam
Rex
Hannah Pittard
Some Nights
Theodore Ross
Frankie the Coyote
Vinnie Wilhelm
The Crying of the Gulls
Volume 13, Numbers 1&2
The Prose Poem Issue
Editor: Julia Johnson
Julia Johnson
Introduction
Sally Ashton
He will make intimate suggestions—
Michael Benedikt
The Adventures of Resentment
Michael Benedikt
Kitchen Scenes
Robert Bly
Thinking of Hansel and Gretel
Mark Budman
To My Love
Jack Christian
Reporter
Wyn Cooper
My Future
R. H. W. Dillard
In the Silent Secret
Dark
Russell Edson
The Moonlighters
Russell Edson
Myopia
Jennifer Grotz
A Day So Empty
Bob Hicok
Repast and future
Lesle Lewis
April
Carsten Rene Nielsen
Shadow
Iustin Panta
These Sleeping Pills
Contributors Notes
VOLUME 12, 2006
Postmodern Pulp
Volume 12, Number
4
Editor: A.
Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith
Introduction
Nick Mamatas
The Bloodied Woman
Paula Bomer
Breasts
John Gorman
Bones Brigade
R. Narvaez
Unsynchronicity
Adam Cushman
Felonies for which I was Never Apprehended: Chapter Eighty-Four.
Jeremiah Granden
Thierry and Anouk
Ray Banks
The Last Kayfabe
Richard Madelin
The Girl at the Next Bench
Craig McDonald
Sheriff Andy Goes To Hell
Kilean Kennedy
True Up
Partly True Stories
Volume 12, Number 3
Editor: James
Whorton
James Whorton Jr.
Editor's Introduction
Matt Briggs
Flag Ceremony
Kim Chinquee
Farmer
Jill Christman
Three Takes on a Jump
Pia Z. Ehrhardt
When I Lived There
Steve Fellner
Marrying Mom
Julia LaSalle
Right Shoe
Inman Majors
First Bike Ride; Queen;
Bus Stops
Jeff McNeil
The Loneliest of Nouns
Anne Panning
Surprise
Jack Pendarvis
The Train Going Back
Gary Percesepe
Robert Kennedy as
Remembered by Jean Baudrillard
Theodore Ross
The Abandoned Brothel
Dayne Sherman
Man Enough to Buy a Gun
Claudia Smith
Slip
Theresa Starkey
The Will
Kevin Walters
Visit Home: March, 2006
Diana Wynne
Dostoevsky and the Idiots
Stories of Mexico
Volume 12, Number 2
Editor:
Peter Theis
Peter Theis
Editor's Introduction
Miriam Wolfe Laughlin
Who's That Standing There?
Dennis E. Thompson
Conquistador
Sara Fasy
My Mexican Cars
Marty McLennan
Why I Almost Threw My Bike Into The Sea Of Cortez
Wayne Rapp
Un Coyote
Juan Carlos de la Parra
Musicology
Sandra Kolankiewicz
El Circo
Nicholas Sorlien
Worlds Between Cities
Mark Cox
Ta Da
Richard Cordaway
A Goat, a Boat, and a Wad of Cash
A. McIntyre
The Cutter
Andrea Saenz
Everyone’s Abuelo Can’t Have Ridden With Pancho Villa
Marvyn Petrucci
Rip Off
Frederick Zackel
When You Least Expect It, A Jackrabbit Pops Up
Laura Polley
Pyramid Of The Sun
Darlin’ Neal
XEROC 80, Juarez, Mexico
David Camps
The Agent
Irene Keliher
The Other Border
The Literary Now
Volume 12, Number 1
Editor: Jane
Armstrong
VOLUME 11, 2005
The New America
Volume 11, Number 4
Editor: Gary
Percesepe
Gary Percesepe
Editor's Introduction
Nagham F. Awadallah
I Don't Remind You of Anyone
Christopher Bakken
Three Poems
Linwood Barclay
What Boneheaded Design Guides Dubya’s Moves?
Gayle Brandeis
Stewarding Liberty
Noam Chomsky
Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste
M.M. DeVoe
Plague Mice
John D. Goldhammer
Dr. Bush and Mr. Hyde: The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush
Jeff Halper
The Narrow Gate to Peace
Thom Hartmann
You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government
Harry Kreisler War of the Worlds, Then and Now
Michael Lerner
Interview with Martin Marty
Matt Mason
Code Orange
Bill Moyers
9/11 And The Sport of God
Danielle Poe
Reality America
Tala A. Rahmeh
Being Palestinian
Curtis Smith
We Care!
Glen H. Stassen
Just Peacemaking
Dan Stryk
Lines for Our National Forecasters
Jere O’Neill Surber
Europe’s America Today: A Little Help for Our Friends?
Ann Marie Tate
We the People
Jim Wallis
God's Politics: A Better Option
Howard Zinn
Unacceptable Regimes in Iraq and the United States
Location/Dislocation
Volume 11, Number 3
Guest Editor: Ken
Foster
Holiday Fiction
Volume 11, Number 2
Editor: Carrie
Hoffman
High Pulp Issue
Volume 11, Number 1
Editor: A. Neil Smith
VOLUME 10, 2004
Poetry & Politics Volume 10, Number 4
Editors: David Chester & Phillip Ischy
David Chester &
Phillip Ischy
Editors' Introduction
Roy Jacobstein
Note to You from Kathmandu
Evan Peterson Footnotes on Early Twenty-First Century Pop Culture
David Oliveira God Comes to the Tachi
Amy Shearn Luck (The Election)
Jim Barton One Night at a Pak-a-Sak in Iraq (or, No Need to Put That in a Bag, Dad)
Liesl Jobson Strelitzia; At the Home of a Colleague from the Child Protection Unit;
Vocal Warm-up at the Co-Op
Mimi McDonald Four Lu-shihs of War
Richard Fein A Brief Lecture on the Physical Chemistry of the Diamond
Martin Rock They’ll Be Contacting Me; Baby’s Buyback and the Cowboy-Man
Arlene Ang Animal; God Decides to Take the Train
Daniel Borzutzky Henry Kissinger's Acceptance Speech for the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize
J.P. Dancing Bear
Gacela of the Heart in Darkness
Amari Hamadene After Your Sickness . . . What Remains?; Today
M. Ayodele Heath
A Sharecropper’s Pantoum
Clay Matthews Reflections of Red in an Aquarium
David Sherman At the Merry-Go-Round
James Wagner [Dear P.]
Happiness
Volume 10, Number 3
Summer 2004
Edited by Jane Armstrong
Jane Armstrong,
Editor's Introduction
Agi Mishol (Lisa Katz, trans.),
Monday
Richard Grayson,
Seven Men Who Made Me Happy
Spider Thorndal,
Mort, My Friend
Janine Cipolaro,
What To Do
Holly Pettit,
Oh Lordy, What Now?
Peggy Newland,
Snowmobiler Boy
Nathan Parker,
This is an
Jessica Girard,
Frustrated Dispersal
Sean Barry,
Second Letter to Jenny
Dinty W. Moore,
Transparent Eyeball
Jamey Gallagher,
In Front of the Pond
Jenn Habel,
And Then, of Course, There’s Hope
Dorothee Lang,
what it is, what it isn’t is
Matthew Summers-Sparks,
Sunshine
Rebecca Givens,
Verso
Jess Koski,
Surprises
Chris Arthur,
The Dagger in the Flesh and the Alchemy of Happiness
Dr. Nancy Etcoff,
Syllabus: The Science of Happiness
Chris Bachelder,
Notes Toward a Lay Report on the Joy Debt
Shelley Ettinger,
Mania
Allen Woodman,
This Bird Has A Secret Pocket
The Television Issue
Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2004
Edited by James Whorton Jr.
James Whorton Jr.
Editor's Note
Sommer Browning
Quiet Night at Home Poem
Pia Z. Ehrhardt
Ski-Doo
Andrea Hewitt
When My Parents Were a Couple
Reeves Keyworth
Audition for a Commercial, West Los Angeles
Vandana Khanna
American Horror
Amy King
Evening In;
The Late Show Effect
Laura Levin
Public Display of Affection
Adrian C. Louis
Arse Poetica
Dianne McKnight
Television
Gary Percesepe
Reload;
Me, Watching
David Pollock
Winston Beak
Claudia Smith
Galveston
Anna Ziegler
What's on TV
Politics 2004
Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2004
Edited by Gary Percesepe
Gary Percesepe
Introduction to the Politics 2004 Issue
Essays
Brother John of Taize
One More Missed Opportunity?
Walter Wink
Globalization and Empire
Al Gore
Remarks to MoveOn.org
Noam Chomsky
Invasion as Marketing Problem: The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
Jim Wallis
Dangerous Religion: George W. Bush's Theology of Empire
Rabbi Michael Lerner
Closed Hearts, Closed Minds
Tony Campolo
Evangelical Zionists vs. George Bush
Merold Westphal
The Fonda Fallacy All Over Again
Bruce Jackson
Media and War: Bringing It All Back Home
Wayne Madsen
Wag the Turkey: Surprise Thanksgiving Dinner at 6 AM?
Duane Shank
The Project for a New American Empire
John D. Goldhammer
Why the Bush "War on Terror" is Fated to Fail
Ben Tripp
Conspiratorial Reading: How Bush Can Still Win
Fran Shor
Groping the Body Politic: Arnold's California Putsch
Mark Zepezauer
Why the Right Hates America
James Whorton Jr.
My Time Machine
Amy Halloran
War Boys
Poetry
Jefferson Adams
A Face Familiar To Me Once; White Crucifixion
Shane Allison
On Dreaming of Kyle Secor Naked When Terrorists Flew a Plane Into The World Trade Center
George Drew
Crocket in Babylon
Shelley Ettinger
Three Poems
John Guzlowski
Two Poems
Admiel Kosman
Lament for the Ninth of Av
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee
Lament for 20th-Century Air Travel
Sandra Novack
Things I Did After 9-11; Ribbons
Ginger Strand
New World Order
S. Asher Sund
Security
V. Alan White
Randall Terry Meets His Maker
Fiction
Sefi Atta
Toward the End
Josh Capps
Bus
Rose-Anne Clermont
Patriot
Corin Cummings
Escape from an Arid Dreamland
Erika Dreifus
Floating
Julia Elliott
Jaws
Karen McBryde
The Hot Spot
Tony O’Brien
To Live and Work
G. David Schwartz
In The Tavern
Laura Ellen Scott
The Cool Aunt
Related Readings
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America
The National Strategy for Homeland Security
President's Remarks at the United Nations General Assembly
President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
President Bush Meets with Troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving
Barneycam: See the President’s dog.
VOLUME 9, 2003
Volume 9, Number 4, Fall 2003
James Robison
The Late Style
Christopher Helmuth
Tulip
Tom Drury Thanksgiving
Alyson Hagy Graveyard of the Atlantic
Craig Nova Rattlesnake
Elizabeth Gilbert Tall Folks
Robert Olen Butler
"Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac"
John Biguenet
Paper Dolls
Thom Jones
Rocket Man
James Poniewozik The Monitor
Ben Marcus The Golden Monica
Susan Hubbard
Why I Have to Marry the Pool Guy
Stacey Richter The Beauty Treatment
David Alexander
Decoys,
The Frequency
Rick Bass
Fiber
W.T. Pfefferle
Two poems
Vicki Hendricks
Gators
Kiki DeLancey
Putch
Sandra Kolankiewicz
Shark in a New Age Sea
Volume 9, Number 3
Summer 2003
Guest Editor: David Chester
Mandy Coe
Staring For Beginners
John Craun
And Spring
Marc Levi
On The Grass
Oswald LeWinter
The Spear of Longinus
Barbara Hamby
Ode on My Waist;
Ode on My Terrariums;
Flesh, Bone, and Red
Tom Jungerberg A Photograph Taken at the End of the World;
Hooch
David Kirby
Ignoble Phiz;
. . . Alas, Not by Johannes Brahms
Kirsten Smith
She Got Away and Came Back
Rita Mae Reese
The Zookeeper’s Daughter Drives to the Store;
The Alchemist’s Daughter Learns to Masturbate
Bryan Walpert
Recalling Your Explanation of the Differences Among Lepidoptera
Jillian Weise
How the Dumb Were Granted the Right to Have Sex
James R. Whitley
Bodily
Ptim Callan
We Built Things
Brandon Cornett
Walter Beedee, Metaphor Man
Manuel Gonzales
The Mouth
Scott O. Handy
White Flight
Micaela
Myers Lines
Christopher Helmuth
Tulip
Patricia Klindienst
Three Moments Upon Waking
Jack Pendarvis
The Astonishing Gentleman
Jon Pineda
Blind Spot
Greg Sanders
Mr. Hallucinosis
Kevin Wilson
Book of You
THE CRIME ISSUE
VOL 9 NO 2: SPRING 2003
Guest Editor: Anthony Neil Smith
Owen Cecil
Rack Hard Paula Bohince
Johnstown Chris Allen Clark
How I abducted My Elusive
Migraine Queen Amy Halloran
The Crime of Writing Elizabeth Anne Hatmaker
Norton, Jan. ‘47 Jack Howland
Hoover’s Dad Doug Lawson
Jersey Devils Edward C. Lynskey
The Hanoi Hilton J. K. Mason
Family Tree John Minichillo
Two Lifetime Members of the N.R.A. Who Loved Guns and Life Itself Wendell Ricketts
The Way It Happens Laura Ellen Scott
Petey Prickles vs. Funeral Steve: An ALL-NEW Petey Prickles Caper! Paul A. Toth
Oats Scott Wolven
Eight Ball Frederick Zackel
Mario and Cheryse
THE MUSIC ISSUE
VOL 9 NO 1: WINTER 2003
Guest Editor: W.T. Pfefferle
Fiction
Scott Southwick:
#1 Steven Carter:
Mr. Good Lacey Galbraith:
2/3 Golden Mean and a Chord Jeff Reichman:
Weird Mark Budman:
A Patriotic Angel A.C. Koch:
Some Kind of Blue Joseph Young:
Oh, That Magic Feeling Marcelle Heath:
I'm doing nothing wrong Joe Burton:
Malachi Phonoferous: Soloist Leslie Stella:
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Cinderella?
Poetry
Jason Stumpf: Analog Ian Christopher Hooper:
At night I can hear the darkness... David L. McNaron:
Three poems Paul Guest:
On the Origins of Modern Atomism Barbra Nightingale:
Three poems Chris Patrick Morgan:
The Dimwitted Organist
VOLUME 8, 2002
Fall 2002 ~ Vol 8 No 4
Guest Editor: Gary Percesepe
Gary Percesepe:
Introduction
Willis Blandings:
Our Satellite Dish
Janet Buck:
Life as a House Hits Home
Chad Davidson:
Bird’s Eye
Jason DeBoer:
Edward G. Robinson; Rod Steiger
Patricia Ducey:
Let Us Now Prepare to Eat our Sacred Cows
Robert Gibbons:
Saturday
Alicia Gifford:
Debbie and Me
Tobias Seamon:
Order of the Dragon
Jennifer Solow:
Sex In The Movies
Spider Thorndal:
Spider's First Girlfriend; Tom Hanks and Daughter Lucy's Quest for Perfection; 10 Tips for Incoming Film Students
Anna Tambour:
Before something is camp, what do you do?
Donna Scott:
Continuous Showings
Rick Warner:
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
John Warner:
Man and his Madness
Jon Moskowitz:
Manifesto &
Desire
Summer 2002 ~ V8 N3
Guest Editor: Jane Armstrong
Benjamin Percy
What Would You Rather?
Kate Wheeler
How it is Down Here
Todd J. Colby
Acts of Kindness
Elizabeth Losh
Sweat
Jake Burdick
Equidistant
Shauna McKenna
MacKay
Richard Mitchell
The Counter
David Kirby Poems--Ndoki and The Higher Pantheism
Stephen Schottenfeld
Trick or Treat
Connie Corzilius
Slut Wisdom
Barbara Hamby
Mr. Manago's Mango Trees
Clint McCown an excerpt from The Weatherman (novel in progress)
Dinty
W. Moore Lem
Ron Carlson
The Recent Vampire Attacks
Spring 2002 ~ Vol 8 No 2
Guest Editor: Leilani Hall
Leilani
Hall Introduction
Kieron
Devlin A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine
Sandra Kolankiewicz
Shark in a New Age Sea
Jeff Parker
Bingo
Diana Griego
Erwin Arched Eyebrows
Chris DeBolt
A Map Beyond the Edge
Jim Hazard
Chicken Dinner
Mary Gannon
Waking Las Vegas
Patrick Madden
Gravity and Distance
Maria Proitsaki
To Scandinavia, Unprepared
Evelyn Posamentier:
Velvet Slippers
Agi Mishol To the Muses Translated from the Hebrew by Lisa Katz
Winter 2002
Vol 8 No 1
Editor: Cheryl Wagner
Cheryl Wagner
Introduction
Jay Fontenot
Letters from a Mobile Jail
Cheryl Wagner
At Home with the Chaos Hag: An Interview with Courtney Egan
Craig Taylor
Three Incidents in My Drinking Life
Kevin Walters
The Boss
Robin Grossinger
Sand; In Search of a Lost Laguna; Resurvey
Paul Maliszewski
Riled Up--An Interview with Kathy Maliszewski
Walt McDonald
Aunt Florence and the Kalahari
VOLUME 7, 2001
Fall 2001 Vol 7 No 4
Guest Editor: Beck Finley
Beck Finley
Introduction
Ander
Monson Freda Thinks Spring
Joan Wilking
Running Man
Joe Garcia
Snowman
Vanessa Koepke
So Maybe I Lied?
Ulf Kirchdorfer
The Waiting Room
Pia Z. Ehrhardt
The Water Laws
Terese
Svoboda Weatherproof
Late Summer 2001
Vol 7 No 3
Editor: David Chester
David Chester
Introduction
Steve Bellin
Three Poems
John E. Branseum
A Poem & A Short
Mark Budman
To Own the Block
Claudette Cohen
How the Water Rolls at a County Water Quality Meeting
Brandon Cornett
Graduation
Rachel Flynn
Four Poems
Hooshla
Fox Contracts
Michael Ives
Two Poems
Kate Lutzner
this crayon
Valerie MacEwan
Court-Appointed
John Poch
A Curse on the Denton Cops, the Lot of Them
Tracy Scarpino
Breaking the Law of Falling Bodies
Richard K. Weems
Steinberg & Whitman
Joan Wilking
Show and Tell
Spring 2001 Vol 7 No 2
Editor: Jürgen Fauth
Jürgen Fauth An Introduction in 750 Words
Katherine Eittreim
Hotel Love
Matt Briggs
Trap
Michael Dermansky
Intraocular Pressure
A. Papatya Bucak
Rabbi in a Tea Cup
John Minichillo Here
Sasha
Pepper Losing Teeth
Norman Lock
Into the Interior
Ron Morelli A Tall Canister of Black Eyed Peas
Camille Renshaw
Assurance
Matthew Callan I Think Jesus is a Cutie
Beck Finley
Nightmares
Keith Regan
Karma Travels
Ginger Strand
What Happens Happens in a Moment
Eric Bosse The Dog-Faced Boy
Steven Salardino
Now We're Really On Our Way
Winter 2001 Vol 7 No 1
Editor: Victoria Lancelotta
Victoria Lancelotta
Editor's Introduction
A.C.
Koch These Are My Demands
Virginia Harabin
Surprise Me
Courtney Eldridge
Sharks
Jon Pineda
Honeymoon
Heidi Shayla
The Coffin Builder's Romance
Joan Wilking
Lizzy’s Bed
Jason Gurley In the Supermarket, On the 10
Scott Wolven Ball Lightning Reported In The Northeast Kingdom
Brock Clarke Accidents
Greg Bottoms
A Stupid Story
VOLUME 6, 2000
Winter 2000
Vol 6 No 1
Alec Solomita
In the Ravine
Ben Greenman
Skunk
Jason Sanford
Links
Shauna Rogan
Souvenir Beach
D. McDougle
Bamboo
Renee Podunovich
The Café Patio
Lina ramona Vitkauskas
The Transaction is Complete
Seth Abramson
Forty Six &
Red Rock Twisters (Garber, Oklahoma)
Alex Keegan
Ballistics
Charlie Dickinson
Steps
Robin Reagler The Age of Irony &
I Have a Theory
Andy Coan Glare Ice
Martha Conway
Fall Migration
The MR Prize 1999
Spring ~ Vol 6 No 2
THE PRIZE IN FICTION Ann Bronston
Obedience School
THE PRIZE IN POETRY Greg Rappleye
Homer, Faulkner, Noir
From The Vegas Cantos
FINALISTS IN FICTION
Aaron Jason
Ryan's Boys
Jaime Clarke
Lindy
David Ryan
Talent
Kiki DeLancey
Putch
Lou Fisher
Paul Newman's House
S. Graber
The Law of Probability
Gerald Majer
Peg
Rae Meadows
Run for the Roses
Jesse Murphree
Brother
Glen Pourciau
The Dangerous Couple
Traci Sobocinski
Each and Every Logical Confusion
FINALISTS IN POETRY
Lynne Martin Bowman
Domestica
Jason Bredle
Anarchy
Charles Fort
Justice
Sarah Jefferis
The Right-Tusked Dream
James Magorian
Pelham
Ralph Malachowski
All American
Debra Marquart
Do Drop Inn
Christopher Matthews
Beneficial Insects
Mary Ann Samyn
Tilde
Andrea Scott
Electra Swimming Back
Katherine Soniat
Nightshade
Jennifer Wheelock
Tennessee Easter, 1998
Margaret Young
Video Screenplay
PRIZE 99 CONTRIBUTORS
The Noir Issue
Summer ~ Vol 6 No 3 Editor: A. Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith
Editor's Introduction
Robert J. Randisi
Black and White Memories
Vicki Hendricks
Gators
Darren Subarton
The Best Things in Life are Someone Else’s
Gary Phillips
Lowball
Jenny Siler
Sharks
Kevin James Miller
Rain on A Stranger's Eyes
& FRIENDS
Martin Bennett
Outside-In: Footnotes from a Squint-Eyed Guestworker
Chris Huntington
Where Do You Wear Your Cross?
Josh Capps
It Counts
Fall 2000 Vol 6 No 4
Editor: James Whorton
James Whorton
Editor's Introduction
Corin Cummings
Everything Else Was Forgettable
Carson H. Wu
My Laugh
Frederick Zackel
Woody and Neva Celebrate their Fiftieth Anniversary In Hawaii
John Fulmer Free-Standing
Janet Kieffer
The Senator's Breakfast
Jane Messer
Plump Girls Pinched with Butter
Jane B. Wilson
Death of a Rooster
Kathy Jo Yates Burton
Forgiveness
Matthew Murphy Eitel
Poems
VOLUME 5,1999
The MR Prize 1998
Thom Jones
Editor's Introduction
Winner
Curtis Sittenfeld
1993-94
Finalists
Ann Bronston
Eskimo Nights
Ad Hudler
Carry-on Baggage
Devon Jackson
Animal Control
Kyle Jarrard
Dime Box
J. P. Jones
Among the Dead
David Ryan
Roswell
Incigul Sayman
Accumulation in Ypsilanti, Michigan
Traci Sobocinski
Disco Lemonade
Winter ~ Vol 5 No 1
David Gilbert How I Became a Realtor (in Exile)
Jack Shadoian Theorizing Filmic Space
Melita Schaum Lizard's Tail
Alec Solomita Old Flame
Amber Dorko Stopper The Skill Crane
Richard Weems Paradigms
Allen Woodman Dog Cake
Camille Renshaw
Surfboards Like Coffin Lids
Spring ~ Vol 5 No 2
M. Lee Williams Frozen to Death
Mark Trainer Dad's on Fire
Pia Ehrhardt This Life
Ben Greenman In The Presence of the General
Robert James Berry Pulau Pinang
Summer ~ Vol 5 No 3
Michelle Rick Next Time
Morgan Hobbs
Vegas
Betsy Ladner Second Round
Claire Bagby Foot Long
C. Abe Gaustad Mosquito Nose
Fall ~ Vol 5 No 4
Bob Kottage Clarence
John Kinsella
Two Poems
James Sallis
Hazards of Autobiography
Amanda Eyre Ward
Butte as in Beautiful
Steven McBrearty
A Certain Type
Abigail Allen
Tahiti
Suzanne Greenberg
Speed-Walk
Lynn Veach Sadler
Miss Spam Maps of Vegas
Bill Beverly
Benjamin Franklin, This is a Light Bulb
Sam Apple
Beard
Vince Samarco Speaking Parts
Greg Sanders
Nine Vignettes
VOLUME 4, 1998
V 4 N 1,January 1998
The 1997 MR Prize in fiction and poetry
Padgett Powell
Note from the Fiction Judge
Angela Ball
Note from the Poetry Judge
Richard Schmitt
Leaving Venice, Florida
Patricia Clark
The Only Body
FINALISTS
Wendy Brenner
Are We Almost There
Ann Bronston Mr. Bubbles
Kathryn Chetkovich Dreaming Before Sleep
Brock Clarke
A Widespread Killing Frost
Michael Dahlie
Last Words from a Camelback Sofa
Andrea Carter Brown
45
Chard deNiord The Visit
Jon Erickson
Touching Tongues
Aviva Luria
Sleep, Before Death
Entries of Special Merit
Contributors
V 4 N 2, February 1998
Additional 1997 MR Prize finalists
Kiki DeLancey
Carley's Knees
Adam Frey
The Reality of the World
Bill Gordon
A Flight From Jersey City
Anthony Varallo
The Knot
Dallas Wiebe
Home on the Range
David Kirby
Sex Therapy
Stephen Knauth
Nightfall
Elizabeth Kostova
In Split
Louis Mazzari
It's as if I took a wrong turn somewhere
George O'Connell
Lint
Contributors
V 4 N 3, March 1998
Susan Hubbard
An Accident of Desire
Russ Dodge
Mickey Mantle
Burton Goble
Reunion
Fredric Koeppel
Three Poems
Matt Marinovich
You Know How Much I Love You
Jim Maguire
Macroeconomic Stability: The Downside
Gary Percesepe
The Prince of Arthur Avenue
Sean Ziebarth
Revolver
Contributors
V 4 N 4 April 1998
Rick Bass
Fiber
William Tyree
Losing Snakes
Robert Sward
Ten Years Under the Eucalyptus
David Wimberley
More Beautiful Than Horses
Jane Armstrong
Ice Cream Cake
Jeff Whipple, Six Paintings
Burning
Eye
Rubbers
Holders
Pie
Tourist
Kim Church
Museum of Hands
Contributors
V 4 N 5, May 1998
Nancy Stone
No Baby
Kyle Jarrard
Sinking to China
Kyle Jarrard
Waiting on the Moon
Marcy Dermansky
Drop It
Rick Bass
Fiber
Leo Haber
Three Women
Camille Brougher
At Night
Contributors
V 4 N 6, June 1998
Geoffrey Brock
Patricia Lost & Other Poems
Nancy Bauer
True Confessions
Brian Cochran
Not To Be Used Till Over 40
W.T. Pfefferle
Two poems
Kim Garcia
Peter & Other Poems
James Kirk
What I Shouldn't Tell You
Christopher Mohney
Night and Spider Baby
Dana Pattillo
Consumed
Scott Poole
Work
A. Wright
from Chattel
Mary Wallach
Why I Don't Write Autobiographical Poems
Renee Podunovich
Piscine Vision
C.K. Tower
Chanting Matins,Gathering The Bones
Contributors
Summer 1998, V 4, N 7-9
Suzan Sherman
The Cousin
Kyle Jarrard
Fish Night
Carrie Bartsch
Locals
Contributors
Fall 1998, V 4, N 9-12
Amber Dorko Stopper
The Skill Crane
Richard Weems
Paradigms
Allen Woodman
Dog Cake
David Alexander
Decoys,
The Frequency
Seth Tucker
Gymnasium
Robert Shuster
Another Sign of June
James Jay
Andre the Giant Haiku
Adam Jones
Hypothesis
Greg Sanders from
Lamereaux
Contributors
VOLUME 3, 1997
1996 MR Prize
V 3 N 1, January 1997
Stacey Richter
THE BEAUTY TREATMENT
Finalists
Philip Avins
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF THE CHILD
Alex Bove
SATURN DEVOURING ONE OF HIS CHILDREN
Jaime Clarke
WE'RE SO FAMOUS
Michael Dahlie
RETIREMENT
Paul Diamond
TO SEE FLEAS WHERE NOTHING IS PRESENT . . .
B.D. Feil
COCKTAIL LOUNGE
Edward H. Fischer
WHEN WE'RE TOGETHER
Perry Glasser
LIGHTED WINDOWS
Virginia Harabin
PRONE
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 2, February 1997
The Beauty Treatment
Stacey Richter
High Rooms Curtis Harnack
Queen of the Night Karen Kevorkian
Counting Backwards
Marie Manilla
Carnivorous Plants Jill Marquis
Selling Eggs at the Punk House Lailee Mendelson
Hips Andy Mozina
Lead, Kindly Lie Lynne Butler Oakes
The Man Who Buried His Dogs in the Front Yard C. Rusch
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 3, March 1997
Denise Stallcup Cimarron Waltz
Terese Svoboda A Mama
Antonia Sweet The Last Time I Saw Elvis
Mark Thorson
Final Delivery
John G. Wallace The Great Destroyer of China
Tim Watt
Blood Memory
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 4, April 1997
Peter Brown
The Wedding
Tracy Heinlein
The Brakes
Victor Grauer Scratch
Jay Marvin Four Poems
James Whorton, Jr. The Dog
David Alexander Mirror Fugue Gas Money
Judy Wilson
Portrait
Robert Sward
Power User
Christopher Scanlan
Mad Looper
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 5, May 1997
David Gilbert Cold War
David Keith
The Gods Leave Things Lying Around...
Gary Kern Red-Tailed Hawk
Suzanne Kamata Tragic Women
Kathrine Jason Five Poems
Kyle Jarrard Something Sick
Chris Semansky Furniture
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 6, June 1997
Abigail Allen The Stylist
Tracy Heinlein Volunteer
Tristan Davies Talent Show
Ronald Warren Deutsch
A Secret Place
John Pietz The Flute Harp
Gary Percesepe Gail
Robert Sward 42 Poets Named Robert
V. Alan White
Three Poems
R. Virgil Ellis Three More Poems
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 7 & 8, July/August 1997
Mark Budman
Fur Elise
Kyle Jarrard
Fly, Fly
Suzanne Kamata
Sacrifices
Richard Weems
After Art
Richard Weems
Soup
Gary Percesepe
Three Poems
Steven J. Frank
The Gelato Affair
Shelley Hunt
Predestination
Martha Conway
Dust
Notes on the Contributors
V 3 N 9, September 1997
david alexander
if i were u
david alexander
the tower
emily snow hackbarth
snow ball
susan hubbard
why i have to marry the pool guy
kyle jarrard
zoned
megan sheehan
t.v. land is funny
lily tuck
the man who was struck by lightning
tracy heinlein
volunteer
notes on the contributors
V 3 N 10, October 1997
james d. lilley and brian oberkirch
an interview with barry hannah
craig graves delancey
time dilation
sharon mckenna
what might happen
david alexander
in disguise with diamonds
notes on the contributors
V 3 N 12, November 1997
judy wilson
a different kind of neverending
paul hassing
the mars tiles
bart plantenga
confessions of a beer mystic
richard cumyn
the girl from the butts
richard fein
dead letter dreams,
a question of thirteen seconds
richard stevenson
miles in uniform;that mournful ballad sound; a bit of larkin; 1954, baker's keyboard lounge
robert sward
"It's a Gun"
V 3 N 12, December 1997
dan chaon
i wake up
greg sanders
garage door
peter cooper
tattoos
sharleen jonasson
feet
n.m. kelby
deals
ann z. leventhal
violet's mystery
dan crawley
o. connor in pain
notes on the contributors
VOLUME 2, 1996
V 2, N 1, January 1996
Wayne in the Desert Padgett Powell
Farrah Brett Berk
Living Legends Francine Prose
Glove Sandra Jacobs
Metropolis Christine Schutt
Jarheads Steve Lattimore
Matters of Sulzer Ian Lirenman
Dog Story Gordon Lish
The Golden Monica Ben Marcus
Where the Sturgeon Are Plentiful Peter C. Brown
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 2, February 1996
Interview With William Gibson Larry McCaffery
Independence Day RW Deutsch
I Did That John Holman
Parts Report Heather McHugh
Two Poems Michael McNeilley
The Monitor James Poniewozik
Sweethearts Leon Rooke
Ciudad Juarez Elizabeth Tallent
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 3, March 1996
Thom Jones
Rocket Man
Charles Marvin
Island of Swine
Victoria Lancelotta Festival
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism
George Slusser Literary MTV
Maxine Chernoff Death Swap
Gary Percesepe Moratorium
James Edward Whorton The Radio
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 4, April 1996
Allan Vorda An Interview With Jamaica Kincaid
Lynne Butler Oaks
Communion, First and Last
Dinty W. Moore Varieties of Religious Experience
Joyce Carol Oates
Death, Etc.
David Sobieski Four Poems
Ben Neihart Iquoi
Jane Armstrong
Clinic
John Biguenet Paper Dolls
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 5, May 1996
John Holman
Damaged Luxury
Christy Sheffield Sanford
Web Work
Patrick O'Donnell
Speed, Metaphor, and the Postmodern Road Novel
Larry French
Three Stories
Andrew Alexander
Little Bitty Pretty One
Cindy King
Three Poems
Steven Carter
Swimmers
Lynn Butler Oaks
The House
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 6, June 1996
Terese Svoboda Hills and Cats
Jonathan Baumbach The Villa Mondare
Alice Mattison The Library Card
Larry French
Three More Stories
P.J. Jason The Nobody
Michael Carlson
Crystals in Their Hearts
Barry Spacks About Us; Finger People
Lola Haskins
Pastoral; Self Portrait--Light from the Left
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 7&8, July/August 1996
Ron Carlson
Grief
John Holman
Credentials
David A. Harvey Foreclosure
Elizabeth Lee
In the Pufferbelly
David Alexander
An American Surfer in Paris
James Whorton Jr. Deliver to My Wife
David Lipsky Garden
Donald Mangum
A Bad Outfit
David Michael Kaplan
Bagpipes
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 9, September 1996
Robert Olen Butler "Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on Philandering Husband"
Robert Olen Butler "Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac"
John Holman
Benefactors
Allen Woodman
Kiss
Allen Woodman
Saved by Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allen Woodman
The Christian Ventriloquist
Victoria Lancelotta The Guide
Wendy Battin Four Poems
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 10, October 1996
David Alexander
10K Rob
Kim A. Herzinger Collector
Paul Lisicky Radar
Cynthia Kadohata Breece D'J Pancake
Robert Olen Butler
"Woman Uses Glass Eye to Spy on Philandering Husband"
Robert Olen Butler
"Woman Struck by Car Turns into Nymphomaniac"
Steve Watkins
Camouflage
Guy Gallo
Dutchy
William Cobb
Mergers & Acquisitions
Notes on the Contributors
V 2, N 11, November 1996
Faith Miller
Signs
Jürgen Fauth Tiger
Gary Percesepe He Wasn't You
David Alexander
The Lisbon Plane
David Alexander
Cadences
David Alexander
10K Rob
Kim A. Herzinger Collector
Cynthia Kadohata Breece D'J Pancake
Notes on the Contributors
V 2 N 12, December 1996
Beck Finley
We're Sorry We Hit Your Dog
Diana Dawson Plattner Cleome
Michael Sexson Man Reading
John Fulmer
Grand Isle
Roger Vaillancourt Look Blind
Elizabeth Inness-Brown
Stephen
Donald Mangum
Losing Steerage
P.J.Jason
Faux Pas
Notes on the Contributors
VOLUME 1, 1995
V 1, N 1 April 1995
Th' Thortee Cook Joseph Ferguson
The Usual Rues, Boulevards and Jardins David Keith
Paying Attention Ken Craven
Hard Looks W.T. Pfefferle
How Animals Mate Daniel Mueller
Riding With the Doctor R. Sebastian Bennett
The 39 Steps Beanie Watkins
Where Characters Come From Ann Beattie
Cyphertext Jurgen Fauth
Reviews & Comments
V 1, N 2, May 1995
Editor's Introduction
Poems Ginny Grimsley
Heroin Man Tom Drury
Socorro Frederick Barthelme
I Am the Bear Wendy Brenner
Circuses Charles Marvin
What Does That Make Me? Kevin Walters
Three Poems Steven Bellin
Lives in Motion: On Rita Dove Kevin Stein
Going to the Elephant Tim Melley
Poems David Chester
Getting Shot Martin Naparstek
Reviews & Comments
V 1, N 3, June 1995
Countdown: Once Upon a Time John Barth
Cordless in the Fifties Terese Svoboda
The Water Column Ronald Duane Smith
Home Angela Ball
Work Terry Engel
Don't Look Martha Conway
Arazi in the Deep South Andy Plattner
Prone Virginia Harabin
Tall Folks Elizabeth Gilbert
Contributors
V 1, N 4&5, July/August 1995
An Interview with Rita Dove Steven Bellin
Landlord Andrew Plattner
What's Eating William Gass? Gary Percesepe
Adam Names the Animals Ann Henry
Who Are They Who Are Like Clouds? John Dufresne
Rewind Steven Sanders
Fullback Glory Cortright McMeel
Things To Do Steven Carter
Cartwheel Jane Armstrong
Notes on the Contributors
V 1, N 6, September 1995
Fidel's Secret Agent Jay Marvin
Sent Home Mary Gordon
Cadaver Scan Rob Hardin
Poles in Your Face: Pitfalls of Hyperfiction Jurgen Fauth
Triana Caroline Prince
What You Do Best Gary Percesepe
Rattlesnake Craig Nova
Grief Victoria Else
Notes on the Contributors
V 1, N 7, October 1995
Interview with Martin Amis Will Self
Three Short Pieces Margaret Atwood
Salem Robert Olen Butler
Exit Rita Dove
Golden Oldie Rita Dove
Wiring Home Rita Dove
Kayak Terry Engel
The Universal Donor Michael Hemphill
The 14-Year-Old Goethe . . . Laurie O'Brien
Christina of St. Trond Laurie O'Brien
This is A Headlock Mary Rees
The Curiosities Michael Waters
Notes on the Contributors
V 1, N 8, November 1995
Driving the Heart Jason Brown
Cool Moss David Gilbert
Four Poems Tara Calishain
Hello Marge Mario Rossilli
Party Girl Terese Svoboda
Snapshot Ben Greenman
Kisser Lisa Zeidner
List Maker Kristi Coulter
Graveyard of the Atlantic Alyson Hagy
When It Started Victoria Else
Notes on the Contributors
V 1, N 9, December 1995
Jerks Karen Shepard
Thanksgiving Tom Drury
Afterglow Terry Engel
The Social Life of the Architect Dennis Hathaway
The Late Style James Robison
Escape Doug Lawson
I Cannot Quite Remember Ian McEwan
Miller on the Rocks Brian Oberkirch
Sleeping Utensils Ron Nyren
Kissing Randy Caroline Prince
Notes on the Contributors |