ISSUE 1 · FALL 2008


enjoy the web version of our journal of magic realism & slipstream


C O V E R   A R T

 

2  1/2

COLIN MELDRUM

 

Mausoleum

(bottom front to back spread)

&

Wings of Garbage (back cover)

PETER SCHWARTZ

 

 

E D I T O R I A L   B O A R D

Editor/Publisher

COLIN MELDRUM

 

 Assistant Editors

SYNDIE ALLEN

DEVORI KIMBRO

MICHAEL LEE

 

Language Consultant

JACEK LERYCH (Chinese)




F L A S H   F I C T I O N


Oven of Dreams

LYDIA SHIP


We keep the wall

between us as we go

TANIA HERSHMAN


Memphis Movie: A Wrap

COREY MESLER


My Collection of Bones

at the End of the World

BEN SEGAL


The Fork

MELINDA J. COMBS


Rebirth of Tragedy

NOEL SLOBODA


Gold Brocade Dress

CICILY JANUS



S H O R T   S T O R I E S

 

Beautiful Ape Girl Baby

HEATHER FOWLER

 

Grandpa Lost His Toothbrush

PATRICIA RUSSO

 

A - Z, In Descending Order

LIZA GRANVILLE

 

Kidnapped

HANK KIRTON

 

Horrortown

JOHN JASPER OWENS

 

[lacunae]

MATTHEW FALK

 

Crumplezone

ALLAN M. McDONALD

 

Everything Ends

DREW LACKOVIC


Maker

ROBERT J. SANTA

 

Kullulu

BRENDAN CONNELL

 

O R D E R   I N   P R I N T :   $ 6




P O E T R Y

 

This is the House That

SHELLIE ZACHARIA

 

Not For Long

YU-HAN CHAO

 

A Problem in Words

NIK DE DOMINIC

 

The Walk Away

MARC JAMPOLE

 

Break Up

and

Silent Instrumental

J. R. PEARSON

 

The Riots, from behind Glass, with my Father

MIAH JEFFRA

 

Pequeñita

KRYSTEN TOM

 

thinking of the cedar river

JUSTIN HYDE

 

Archival

JANE KNECHTEL

 

Kentucky-Fried Christ

C. E. CHAFFIN

 

Dig

MARGARET BASHAAR

 

Carrion Bread

OMAR SINGLETON

 

Charlie

ROLLI

 

Horizon

CAROL DORF



D R A M A

 

Crossings

KATHY COUDLE KING