Fiction

Spring ’85 - Fall ’08
(Issue Nos. 1 - 83)

		Abbey, Edward, Confessions of the Barbarian, 5 Adisa, Opal Palmer, Duppy Get Her, 2 Adisa, Opal Palmer, Fruit Series, 67 Alexie, Sherman, from The Native American, 26 Allende, Isabel, Our Secret, 24 Alpert, Cathryn, Straight Up, Now Tell Me, 26 Aminian de Ferreccio, Jazmin, Pescado, Paletas, 58 Amnasan, Michael, from Joe Liar, 27 Anaya, Rudolfo A., Iliana, 4 Anders, Charles, The Next Best Thing to Kindness, 65 Ansary, Tamim, Overtaxed, 70 Aponte, Rachel, Clarisse, 41 Apollo, Four Wolves and a Panther, 36 Arnold, Daniel, The Cleaning Crew, 74 Asher, Charles, The Hands That Fail You, 80 Asher, Don, Dirge Mute, 6 Asher, Don, Keys to the Kingdom, 22 Avakian, Soria, A Loon Has No Regrets, 39 Axelrod, Mark, Lawrence Detectives Inc, 61 Bacho, Peter, The Wedding, 35 Bajo, David, The Treasure of Felix Piedras, 33 Baker, Alison, Coh, Baby, Baby, 34 Baker, Alison, Bodie’s Glen, 49 Baldi, Brian, Latitudes Away, Longitudes Apart, 63 Banks, Joe, Slipping Out, 15 Bauer, Christian, A Grown-up-type Woman..., 65 Baszile, Natalie, from The Grinding Season (novel-in-progress), 76 Bell, Matthew, Blood Groove, 83 Bellamy, Dodie, Complicity, 3 Bellamy, Dodie, I Was Aroused, 23 Bender, Aimee, Some Romans, 70 Benson, Steve, On Time in Another Place, 9 Bentley, Kevin, Witness, 37 Bergland, Magnus, Fishing with Ezra, 62 Berlin, Lucia, Carpe Diem, 1 Berlin, Lucia, My Life, 4 Berlin, Lucia, The Adobe House with a Tin Roof, 18 Berlin, Lucia, So Long, 31 Bernthal, Craig, A Small Parenthesis in Eternity, 55 Billman, Jon, Ash, 46 Berriault, Gina, Lives of the Saints, 14 Bledsoe, Lucy Jane, Enough, 74 Bleich, Jeff, Sticks and Stones, 76 Bleifus, James M., Mr. Chicago, 71 Boccadoro, Charles, The Test, 17 Bokenkamp, Natty, Our Savannah, 83 Bradd, Bill, The Whistle Stop, 26 Brady, Catherine, Written in Stone, 68 Brandenburger, Kris, Chain of Tools, 15 Brantingham, James M., Ritter’s Crime, 19 Braverman, Kate, Pagan Night, 38 Braverman, Kate, The Exclusive Interview, 70 Briggs, Matt, Help Wanted, 54 Boshel l, Seamus, Bolloc, 76 Bromley, Dan, Just As I Am, 63 Brooks, Joanna, Catch and Release, 39 Bronson, Po, Tracking the Family Beast, 31 Broudy, Oliver, The Ballad of Mari-Ada..., 51 Broun, Hob, CAUTION DEAF CHILD, 4 Brown, Mary E., My Vacation, 8 Brown, Rebecca, Augury, 72 Brown, Theresa Donovan, Heart Technology, 32 Budd, Dona, Eating Crayons, 30 Bullchild, Percy, Napi and the Gophers, 3 Callan, Ptim, Me and Lennie and Sue, 55 Carver, Alexander, Callback Hell, 83 Cass, Richard, Come Back, 73 Catalani, Ronault, L. S., We Brothers, 51 Chacón, Daniel, El Escritor, 54 Chadwick, Cydney, Cow, 37 Chai, May-lee, Saving Sourdi, 63 Chambers, Benjamin, It's Not Good Enough to Own the Original, 70 Chakravorty, Kishore, Border, 71 Chapman, Stepan, Spraying for Bugs, 19 Charette, Sally Weigold, Times I Broke..., 54 Charney-Sirott, On Becoming a Hafiz, Jonah, 78 Chao, Eugenia, The Strange Objects Museum, 78 Chernoff, Maxine, Coming Apart and Together, 56 Chetkovich, Kathryn, Appetites, 51 Chiappone, Richard, Maximum Reception, 37 Chin, Justin, Burn, 56 Chin, Justin, Horehound, 50 Chin, Marilyn, Happiness: A Manifesto, 41 Chin Marilyn, Liars, 73 Christensen, David, Men, 78 Christensen, Thomas, Arlecchino Exercises, 37 Chrystos, Traditional Style Indian George, 68 Cinadr, Brian David, a corn-field faith, 62 Clark, Dave, Caring, 41 Clover, Joshua, Honey, 41 Coleman, Roger D., Alien Fusion, 82 Coleman, Wanda, My Brain's Too Tired, 62 Cooper, Dennis, Container, 26 Coppel, Alfred, Marburg Chronicles, 2 Coshnear, Daniel, The Right-Hand Man, 52 Cottrell, Tara, You and Your Baby, 61 Cox, Thomas J., A Boy’s Life, 54 Cummings, Tracy, Easy, 68 Cushing, Drew, Henry, 69 D’Allessandro, Sam, Zombie Pit, 12 Davidson, Rob, Criminals, 78 Day, Orman, The Seat Next to Me Is Empty, 49 Dawson, Robert, My Side of the Story, 68 Dee, Denise, Sadness, 3 DeNardo, Mary, Leaving, 64 Dennis, Gene, Partners, 2 Divakaruni, Chitra, The Bats, 33 Dizon, Michelle, This is a Reading, 61 Donley, Elizabeth, Alice in Ayuda, 61 Dorst, Doug, The Surf Guru, 51 Doubiago, Sharon, 25, Maybe 28, 78 Drizhal, Peter, frorn Continent of Mental Lapses, 37 Drohan, Heather, One of the Boys, 53 Emerson, Stephen, Anchorage Public Library, 2 Emerson, Stephen, Hawthorne, 17 Emory, Corey, Rejecting Cain, 73 Falkoff, Michelle, Contract, 64 Farrington, Tim, On Balance, 49 Farris, Stephani, Wolves & Ravens, 67 Finney, Ernest J.: Farmer’s Almanac, 64 Fletcher, Christine, Scars, 65 Flores, Paul Stojsavljevic, Tumbadora, 53 Fox, Wendy, The Cicada Years, 77 Franks, Beth, Cinderella's Fall, 77 Franks, Claudia Stillman, Nets, 11 Freed, Lynn, William, 11 Freeman, David, The Art Deco Widow, 69 Freeman, Judith, Family Attractions, 12 Frym, Gloria, In the Museum, 4 Frym, Gloria, TV Guide, 25 Gallagher, Tess, Lover of Horses, 6 Gallagher, Tess, I Got a Guy Once, 46 Garfin, Cory, The Carousel, 80 Garsson, A. B., Petrie’s Head, 51 Gasper, de Alba, Alicia, Lorca's Widow, 73 Gavin, Jim, Recommendation, 63 Gavin, Jim, Smelly Gary's Luau, 80 George, Abram, Second Chance, 10 Gerstler, Amy, Primitive Man, 4 Gibney, Arthur, Manure Spreader, 40 Gies, Martha, Blue, 10 Gifford, Barry, Nadja in Paradise, 1 Gilb, Dagobcrto, Shout, 8 Giles, Greg, Rat, 38 Giles, Molly, Cruise Control, 6 Giles, Molly, The Poet’s Husband, 23 Glass, Jill, The Death of Romance, 72 Glück, Robert, Sky Looked Bruised, 1 Glück, Robert, Hidden in the Open, 29 Glück, Robert, Ten Illustrations for “The Fall of the House of Usher,” 58 Goerlitz, Charles Shelby, Ruby, 24 Goldfaden, Josh, Nautical Intervention, 75 Gomez, Jewelle, Ounce of Charm, 51 Gomez, Rocky, At the Borderline, 8 Gomez, Rocky, Yes, the Dogs!, 14 Gourdine, Traci L., Graceful Exits, 40 Grabel, Katy, Tips, 58 Grace, Harden, Both-Way Game, 45 Grady, Janett L., Last Dream, 80 Grahn, Judy, Rats at the Door of Love, 45 Guterson, Mary, Cleanup, 61 Hagedorn, Jessica, Heroin, 3 Handler, Daniel, Clearly, 76 Hansen, Joseph, from Living Upstairs, 29 Hara, Marie, Fo’ W’at Stay Shame? (1954), 37 Harrison, Nicole, The Center of My Vision, 47/48 Harryman, Carla, Vice, 6 Harwood, Grace, Nancy and Her Quilts, 8 Haule, Robert, Jane’s Bracelet, 27 Havazelet, Ehud, The New Postman, 45 Hegi, Ursula, Exposure, 33 Hempel, Amy, Under No Moon, 10 Herd, Dale, Dreamland Court, 5 Herrera, Juan Felipe, World Artist, 13 Heynen, Jim, Grandfather, 3 Heynen, Jim, Bird Songs & Ensilage Pit, 29 Hischak, Gregory, Down to the Corn Again, 70 Holeton, Richard A., Understanding Hypertext, 72 Holt, Lorri, Anyone, 58 Houser, Trevor J., Piranha-Otter, 79 Houston, James D., Hip Plumber, 6 Houston, James D., Lost Brother, 9 Houston, James D., A Family Resemblance, 27 Howard, Rachel, Bolero, 79 Howell, Elaine, The Nourishment of War, 70 Hunter, Sandra, Sudden Sightings, 73 Islas, Arturo, Blind, 5 Islas, Arturo, Chakespeare Louie, 13 Jahn, Benjamin, Quiet Right Now, 61 Jahn, Benjamin, Our Responsibilities to Those Who Depend on Us, 77 Jaffe, Sherril, The Emotional Detective, 66 Jasson-Holt, Sophie, Decade, 36 Jones, Melissa, Beneath the Skin, 67 Jordan, Jazmin Aminian, Loretta, 81 Ju, Siel, Five Boys, Three Guys, a Dogwalker, and a Suit, 81 Kamen, Kelly, Benetton Billboards, 36 Karbo, Karen, Tackling English, 7 Karlin, Katherine, Bye-bye Larry, 73 Keeble, John, The Cross, 36 Keeble, John, NBound, 70 Keel, Lawrence, Barefoot, 14 Keeley, Philip Honan, Down We Roll, 54 Keesey, Anna, The Most Loving of Dogs, 47/48 Kendall, Gillian & Robert Young, Litmag Letter, 34 Kester, Morgan, Endless Night, 26 Keyes, Mia C., Regina and Company, 55 Killian, Kevin, Loveland, 6 Kim, Junse, Son of Kings, 52 Kindley, Sonja, Our Kind of Love, 40 Kingston, Maxine Hong, from Tripmaster Monkey, 16 Kline, Jacob, Bernhard, 81 Koenigsdorf, Jill, Spelunker, 32 Komater, Chris, Ten illustrations for “The Fall of the House of Usher,” 58 Koppman, Steve, My Wife, 41 Krane, Jeremy: Ringo's Last Stand, 64 Krich, John, My City, 1 Kwong, William, The Unveiling, 71 L’Heureux, John, Themselves, 16 Lam, Andrew, Slingshot, 54 Lam, Andrew, Yacht People, 81 Lange, Chad, Respect the Wildlife, 69 La Puma, Salvatore, Photograph, 11 La Puma, Salvatore, Lightning, 16 La Puma, Salvatore, The Four Of Us, 20 La Puma, Salvatore, Paradise, 67 Latiolais, Michelle: Breathe, 64 Laws, Karen, They Call Catfish Ministers, 51 Layachi, Larbi, Jealous Lover, 2 Leahy, Matt, Dear Mr. Baptiste, 37 Lee, Jee Young, Just North of Santa Fe, 80 Leff, Robyn Joy, The Denzel Washington Effect, 67 Lemus, Felicia Luna, Random Tea Parties and Fucking Princess Me, 62 Leong, Russell, Geography One, 33 Lin, Patty, The Trumbull Diet,. 75 Litwak, Leo, Lenny Loves Jane, 11 Lombardo, Guy, Harlem Skiffle, 53 Long, Dixon, from Weekend in Luberon, 76 Long, Robert Hill, Literary Pose in Western Massachussetts, 41 Lopez, Barry, Jordan Valley, 1977, 22 Lopez, Luciana, The Bed, 78 Lugn, David, Corporeal, 36Leong, Russell, Phoenix Eyes, 47/48 Lu, Alvin, The Hell-Screens, 47/48 Lupinetti, Flavian Mark, The Eichmann Interview, 83 Lyman, Randall, This Won’t Hurt a Bit, 33 Mackey, Nathaniel, from From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume..., 58 MacMillan, Ian, Boys & Girls & Fish, 78 Macy, Darbi, West Yellowstone Spring, 80 Madonna, Paul, Out of the Grapevine, 79 Magnum, Regina Su, Peach Boy, 72 Major, Clarence, My Adventures, 26 major, devorah, Crowded Table, 7 major, devorah, Jes’ Talk, 31 Malae, Peter Nathaniel, Get It One Last Time, 69 Malessa, Bryan, Looking Out for Hope, 33 Malcangio, Tori, Coveting Stucco, 82 Mandelman, Avner, Terror, 35 Mandelman, Avner, Pity, 39 Marcus, Daniel, Chimera Obscura, 77 Martinez, Hector A., The Pig, 75 Mason, James, 850 Amsterdam Ave., 9c, 46 Mazza, Michael, from r-72 (novella-in-progress), 76 McAulay, Sarah, DOLLS, 40 McCollum, Malinda, Kicks, 52 McCormick, Brian, Burial of the Sardine, 20 McCormick, Brian, Where the Sparkles Come, 24 McDowell, Robert, Anniversary, 21 McGuire, Rosemary, Thompsen’s Bay, 74 McKee, Al, The Nut Buzzer, 76 McKenzie, Elizabeth, Stop that Girl, 63 McKenzie, Elizabeth, A Delaware Story, 77 McKey, Heather, Red Night, 38 McLeod, Charles, Exit Wounds, 79 McMahon, Jeff, Phittnut's Progress, 77 Michaels, Leonard, Viva La Tropicana, 20 Mirosevich, Tony, Bread-and-Butter Note, 41 Mitchell, John, Sophie’s Family History, 2 Mittelstaedt, Chris, Searching for Melpomene, 52 Mori, Bruna, Jesus Visits Salvadore, 66 Mowry, Jess, One Way, 16 Mowry, Jess, Crusader Rabbit, 24 Mowry, Jess, Enfant Perdu, 50 Moyer, Edward, Cover Letter, 53 Mullen-Tohill, Sylvia, Bark, the Harold Basset Sings, 61 Munro, Jennifer D., Pinkie, 75 Murguia, Alejandro, Pitayas, 36 Murray, Yxta Maya, Girl on Fire, 41 Mytinger, Melissa, A Story, Once, 21 Nealand, Eireene, When Hitler Gave Stalin a Porcelain Doll, 82 Nees, John, Clean, 65 Nesset, Kirk, Highway, 40 Ng, Bernard, Centrifuge, 35 Ng, Bernard, Making the Money, 62 Nguyen, Minh Duc, What Good Guys Want, 46 Nguyen, Tung, Dress in White, 63 Nilssen, Athena, Open Car Dooors, 78 Nunnally, Tim, End of the World, Part One, 41 Obenzinger, Hilton, At the Primater Bar, 75 Oglesby, Briandaniel, Family Kleenex, 82 O’Grady, James J., Doris-Billy-Richard, 11 Olsen, Erica: Reverse Archaeology, 64 Onopa, Robert, Punks, 3 Onopa, Robert, Traditional Burial, 8 Ostler, Scott, Crowbars Last Stand ,76 Parker, Susan, Number of, 77 Perks, Micah, Quiero Bailar Slow with You Tonight, 70 Peterson, Brenda, Duck and Cover, 9 Pheifer, Kathleen, Siamese, 14 Pineda, Cecile, Flotsam & Runes, 7 Pinson, David, The Hog, 31 Plesko, Les, Singer, 79 Pollack, James, The Strange Attraction, 17 Prato, Liz, Veronica, 75 Prince, Pamela, from Corazon (novel-in-progress) Printup, Cheryl, The Promise of Something, 68 Pryor, Josh, The Service Writer, 50 Raghava, Pratima, The Circus, 80 Ramasastry, Saira, Mumbai Taxi, 65 Read, Bonna Newman, The Cheese Test, 72 Remmerde, Jon, Venison Summer, 18 Rexroat, Kevin, Not Just for Christmas Anymore, 36 Reyes, Maria, Twelve Bars Past Goodnight, 31 Rice, Joel, An Imperium of the Heart, 77 Riviere, Russ, The 2o-Breath Snake, 18 Roberge, Rob, Swiss Engineering, 45 Roberts, M.C., Infidel, 7 Rock, Peter, Slight Betrayals, 47/48 Rogers, George, As the World Turns, 49 Rose, Joanna, The Party Under the Lilac, 45 Rosenwaike, Polly, Rhymes with Heart. 66 Roy, Camille, My Sugar, 16 Ryan, John, Midnight in the Maze..., 52 Ryan, Shawna, The Abandoned Elders, 77 Sarris, Greg, Joy Ride, 39 Sampson, Ann Marie, Trimming Master, 14 Sanelli, Andrea, The Suit, 41 Santiago, Eduardo, Bit by Bit, 68 Saralegui, Jorge, The Arabian Night Shift, 72 Sarbanes, Janet, The Real Joan, 56 Saroyan, Aram, The Musicians, 47/48 Satorius, Katherine, Meals, 77 Schippling, Michael, Banker’s Hours, 50 Schluter, R., I am Providence, 5 Schoeneman, Frederick D., The Bottom Buster, 74 Schowalter, Fred, No Matter Where You Go, 9 Schulz, Hart, Trout Fishing in L.A., 23 Scoech, Samantha, Sudden Fictions, 50 Scott, Gary, Not Quite, 58 Scott, Simone, Pirker Across the Browlek, 77 See, Carolyn, How Scared We Got, 6 See, Dianne, The Gift, 49 Sigge, David, Deer Editor, 56 Shahan, Sherry, Iris & Jim, 77 Sheehan, Chris, Gree for Shipping, 65 Shields, David, Information Sickness, 33 Shirley, John, V, H, and You, 30 Sidhu, Ranbir, Assimulition, 33 Singh, C.J., Varieties of Shorter Fiction, 80 Silva, Robert, Three Easter Stories Six Parts Each, 73 Sinclair, Rex, Da Boat, 63 Sinclair, Rex, Benind the Zambaonga, 72 Skelley, Jack, Fear of Kathy Acker, 1 Slezak, Ellen, Passion Play, 55 Smallwood, Mark, The Moon and Venus, 26 Smith, M., Table Talk, 47/48 Spearman, Simone, Pimping the Wheel, 56 Soloway, Jill, Courtney Cox's Asshole, 62 Sorrentino, Gilbert, The Sea, Caught in Roses, 22 St. Germain, Justin, Tortolita, 83 Stablem, Marilyn, Street Show, 7 Stablein, Marilyn, Wet Babies, 11 Stafford, Kim, Wedding to Green, 46 Stark, Randy, Mornings begin at Dawn, 49 Stegner, Lee, Fruit Moon, 34 Stone, Jessica, Rooted, 58 Stone, Jessica, Tunes, 66 Struloeff, Cynthia, One Little Cigarette, 78 Sullivan, Colleen, No Romans, No Caligula, 39 Swofford, Anthony, Escape and Evasion, 68 Tallent, Elizabeth, Black Dress, 25 Tallent, Elizabeth, Code, 61 TallMountain, Mary, Snatched Away, 14 Taylor-York, Jesse, from The Cult of Her, 34 Thurber, Bart, Bringing in Water, 25 Tisdale, Sallie, Orphans, 8 Tisdale, Sallie, Gentleman Caller, 27 Toole, F. X., The Monkey Look, 55 Toole, F.X., The University of Missouri, 63 Treat, Tanya, Unsayable Life, 58 Trueblood, Kathryn, Black Ice, 32 Tyau, Kathleen, Neon Nightmare, Fiberglass Dreams, 31 Uyeda, Lance: Always Just the Same, 64 Valencia, Rita, At Home, Alone, 52 Valenzuela, Tony, The Day We Didn't Quite Manage to Smuggle Some K, 72 VanDeursen, Alison, I Don't Like Cats, 65 van der Zee, John, Grassfire, 1 Van Winckel, Nance, After My Heart, 27 Villalón, Joel Antonio, Dinero, 47/48 Villanueva, Extinction, 61 Voda, Dave, Grace Paley's Vacuum Cleaner, 81 Vogan, Sara, Strength of Steel, 5 Vollmann, William T., The Answer, 30 Vollmann, William T., Traveller’s Epitaph, 40 Wagner, Mary Michael, Act of Kindness, 26 Wang, Shao, Yan Da '88, or Crackdown in Shanghai, 76 Warden, Christopher, Japan, 9 Warden, Christopher, The Three Sisters, 19 Waters, Don, La Llorona, 76 Weatherford, Margaret, East of the 5, South of the 10, 74 Wells, Pattie M., Los Tangueros, 81 Westmoreland, Jennifer, What Did You Do..., 46 Williams, Evan Morgan, The Ice Wall, 80 Williams, Holly Chase, Blue, 70 Williams, Naomi, Sunday School, 82 Wilson, Barbara, I Met a Dog in the Pyrenees, 37 Wolfe, Michael, Letter for Wayne, 3 Wolverton, Terry, Rites, 29 Wrye, Gabriel, Straight Time, 63 Wunderlee, Christopher, Howl, 65 Yamasaki, Phyllis, Open Studios, 56 Yau, John, Things You Said, 39 Yang, Lyndane, Mysteries of Ao Mai., 73 Yates, Dwight, The Lover, 24 Yates, Dwight, I Wanna Hold Your Hand..., 52 Yep, Laurence, The Chinese Teacher, 82 Yuknavitch, Lidia, Cusp, 55 Zelaya, Norman Antonio, Because She’s Not My Sister, 61 Zilka, Christine Lee, Bile, 68
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