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 Fiction, Edited by Kim Chinquee
Mary Akers Bosoms
Randall Brown Today They Will Canter
Lydia Copeland Checkers
Kathy Fish Two Fictions
Avital Gad-Cykman Piece by Piece
Scott Garson Interstate
Greg Gerke I Want to Write Flash Fiction
Daniel Grandbois Two Fictions
Peter Grandbois TV Head
Tiff Holland Sundries
Jeff Landon Where I’m Going
Paul Lisicky Mr. Cat
Robert Lopez Nine off the Break
Darlin Neal Legs
Carol Novack Quantum Physics
Lorna Perez Astronaut
Jen Pieroni The People Here
Peter Ramos Smoke on the Water
Gail Louise Siegel They Made You Buy Blue Shoes
Carrie Spell Map
Rusty W. Spell Where Are You? Where Did You Go?
Ed Taylor “Save Me or I’ll Kill You” (Love Song)
Diane Williams Wrigglework
VOLUME 15, 2009
Volume 15, Number 4
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
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
Late Style James Robison
Fidel’s Secret Agent Jay Marvin
Queen of the Night Karen Kevorkian
Carley’s Knees Kiki DeLancey
I Cannot Quite Remember Ian McEwan
Salem Robert Olen Butler
WE’RE SO FAMOUS Jaime Clarke
Three Stories Larry French
Three More Stories Larry French
Credentials John Holman
The Golden Monica Ben Marcus
Why I Have to Marry the Pool Guy Susan Hubbard
Sharks Courtney Eldridge
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 Nightcap Bruno Three Takes on Brassai
Laura Madeline Wiseman Elevator Girl Brand
Susan Varnot Matisse: Seated Pink Nude
Brenda Yates The Etruscan Fire Poker
Tuva Ruebner 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
(no longer available)
Volume 14, Number 2
The Movies Issue
Guest Editors Jurgen Fauth and Marcy Dermansky
(no longer available)
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
Volume 12, Number 4
Postmodern Pulp, 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
Volume 12, Number 3
Partly True Stories, 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
Volume 12, Number 2
Stories of Mexico, 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
Volume 12, Number 1
The Literary Now, Editor: Jane Armstrong
Jane Armstrong Editor’s Introduction
Saeed Ur-Rehman The Sharpness of Grass Blades
Kristen Yawitz Embodied, Embedded
Randy Gonzales Tropical Depressions
David Lumsden Marina Tsvetaeva: November 1917
David Lumsden The question of the blog is the question of the whole
Theodore Worozbyt Auditorium
Case Miller No Cuts to Swell It
Dorothee Lang words lick, yellow wet
Andy Plattner Videotape
Joseph Aimone The Things You Don’t Get Over
Kat Meads CiCi Gets Drunker on Airplanes
Grzegorz Wróblewski A Repetition
Joshua Arsenio Things Like This
Julia Cohen Hot Cold
Matthew Modica Articles of War
John Sullivan Evil Sheik!
Chris Diken The Killer at the Beach
VOLUME 11, 2005
Volume 11, Number 4
The New America, 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
Volume 11, Number 3
Location/Dislocation, Guest Editor: Ken Foster
Ken Foster Introduction: I Should Have Known
Stevan Allred His Ticky Little Mind
Daphne Beal The Terms
Raul Correa Hilla Jamilla (Hilla is Beautiful)
Sean Ennis The Au Pair
Amanda Gersh Idi Amin Will Get You
Cynthia Gralla Nang Fah Jam Laeng: Angels in Disguise
Emer Martin Baby Zero An excerpt
Jan Meissner The Mud Field
Lincoln Michel The Old House
Joanna Pearson The Haircut
Marian Pierce Mrs. Nakamura
Felicia C. Sullivan Night Work
Pragya Trivedi Green
Suzy Vitello Paper Husbands
Volume 11, Number 2
Holiday Fiction, Editor: Carrie Hoffman
Carrie Hoffman Introduction
Bob Arter Holiday
Jenny Bitner How I Saved My Mother’s Life
Annie Bruno Veteran’s Day
Kim Chinquee Lent
Michael Czyzniejewski Finding My Werewolf Mask in the Hide-a-Bed, July 4th, 1994
Pia Z. Ehrhardt His Hand Restless On My Leg
Richard Grayson The Best Rosh Hashanah Ever
Roy Kesey The Holidays Here
Calvin Liu The Scientist
Marcia Mascolini All Souls’ Eve
Thomas O’Malley Maundy Thursday
Michelle Richmond P.S. You’re Mine
Dawn Ruth The Yard Man
Rusty W. Spell The Age I Was at Christmas and the Girl That I Was With
Matthew Summers-Sparks The Mystery of the Disappearing Boat
Volume 11, Number 1
High Pulp Issue, Editor: A. Neil Smith
Anthony Neil Smith Editors’ Introduction
Brian J. Barr Stuman’s End
Scott Brothers Thrilling Hard-Boiled Detective Comics
Ken Bruen American Skin
Judith Cox Equinox
Victor Gischler The Humpers
Michael Glassman Naked Galveston
Vicki Hendricks Purrz, Baby
Jack Howland Down State
Stephen Graham Jones Cops & Robbers
Vishal Khanna Gloria My Gloria
Kathy Kubik A Fish Tale
Patrick J. Lambe My Throw Down Piece
Ed Lynskey Following the Sunsphere
Eric Madeen Onbashira Groove
Craig McDonald The Last Interview
Neal Pollack Pretty Good Vacation
Scott D. Pomfret Billy Vigor
Charlie Stella Father Diodorus
VOLUME 10, 2004
Volume 10, Number 4
Poetry & Politics, 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.]
Volume 10, Number 3
Happiness, 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
Volume 10, Number 2
The Television Issue, 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
Volume 10, Number 1
Politics 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
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
Volume 9, Number 2
THE CRIME ISSUE, 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
VOL 9 NO 1
THE MUSIC ISSUE, Guest Editor: W.T. Pfefferle
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Spring ~ Vol 6 No 2
The MR Prize 1999
Ann Bronston Obedience School
Greg Rappleye Homer, Faulkner, Noir From The Vegas Cantos
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
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
Summer ~ Vol 6 No 3
The Noir Issue, 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
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
1998 MR Prize
Thom Jones Editor’s Introduction
Curtis Sittenfeld 1993–94
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
Padgett Powell Note from the Fiction Judge
Angela Ball Note from the Poetry Judge
Richard Schmitt Leaving Venice, Florida
Patricia Clark The Only Body
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
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
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
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
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
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
Summer 1998, V 4, N 7–9
Suzan Sherman The Cousin
Kyle Jarrard Fish Night
Carrie Bartsch Locals
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
VOLUME 3, 1997
V 3 N 1, January 1997
Stacey Richter THE BEAUTY TREATMENT
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
V 3 N 11, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
V 1, N 2, May 1995
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
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
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
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
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
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
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