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Issue 5: winter/spring 2008

Fiction

  • Chris BachelderGatsby’s Hydroplane
  • John BrandonThe Coming Summer
  • Suzanne HalmiNo More Happy Birthdays
  • Roy KeseyStump
  • Owen KingNothing Is in Bad Taste
  • Marshall N. KlimasewiskiAëronauts
  • Paul LisickyThe Didache
  • Ben StroudBorden’s Meat Biscuit

Nonfiction

  • Mark DotyStill Life: Coda

Poetry

  • Jonathan Barrett10 O’clock News
  • Ann BuggeyFish
  • Marina Colasanti (translated by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey) – Jantar familiar (Family Dinner), No silêncio (Amidst Silence)
  • Sally DawidoffAt Twenty, Psychoanalyric
  • Geri DoranThe Dark Octaves, Swan Goes
  • Ori Joseph FienbergThe Seasons
  • Martin GalvinCrazy Bones
  • Bob HicokWhat is the etymology of etymology?
  • Mark JarmanOwnership
  • Jan Marie LaPerleMotherhood
  • Jeanne LarsenThe Garden of Roses
  • Beth MartinelliWater-Bearing Bodies
  • J. MorrisWhen She Told Me No
  • H. E. Sayeh (translated by Chad Sweeney and Mojdeh Marashi) – Ghorrobe Chaman (Sunset on the Green), Tasvir (Image)
  • Heather SellersListening to the New Tom Petty
  • Anis ShivaniThe War in Iraq Poses Irreducible Problems in Identification
  • Ben SonnenbergThe Goat in the Moonlight, Speedwriting, Jessica’s Farewell, Paris
  • C. Dale YoungBlood