27_1and2

Volume 27, No. 1 & 2

Spring & Summer 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL FEATURE
Innovative Fiction: 21 Writers Amy Hempel, Guest Editor
Introduction			Amy Hempel
No One Will Ever Marry You, You Know			Patricia Lear
My Music			Lily Tuck
Fire in the Taxidermy Shop			Mi Ditmar
Girl			Peter Markus
The Woman with High Heels			Paola Peroni
El Paso			Daryl Scroggins
How the Past Retruns
For the Record
The Ride Home from Church
Influences
What Remains
Footnote
Compost Conversion
Quarter			John Rybicki
Sell It Back to Me			Katie Arnold-Ratliff
Bricks			Robert Lopez
Hell on Church Street Blues
Chop Suey
The Turn Worming
Flesh			Michael Ahn
Up 58 South			Jamie Quatro
The End of Something			Nick Falgout
And the Harps Play Us Off*
The Social Life of Mice			Megan Mayhew-Bergman
I Had It Out			Anna DeForest
The Last Day of Summer			James Donovan
Did You See Me See You?			Patricia Volk
An Unexpected Pleasure			Christopher Kennedy
Excerpts from Hall of Mirrors			Timothy Liu
Mirrors			Joe Stracci
The Day Before Christmas Eve
Success Story			Julia Slavin
We Are Not Shelter Men
Famous Last Words			Bernard Cooper
*Note: And the Harps Play Us Off was attributed in error to Christopher Kennedy in the print version.
NONFICTION
How to Write a Good Sentence: A Manual for Writers Who Know How to Write Correct Sentences		Arnold G. Nelson
POETRY
The Love Hotel		Heather Kirn
The Peace Dome
Water Notes		Carolyn Stoloff
Dream of Early Life Beneath the Waves		Dan Stryk
The Rowboat		Michael Hettich
Old Sayings Apply in Here		Rob Talbert
Jumper
School Yard		Doug Ramspeck
The Fat Man Sings of Despair		George Looney
This Poem		Dan O'Brien
My Mother, at Six, Speaks to Me		Jeanne Emmons
Cutting Apples	Michael Salcman
Rubia Writes a Poem about Light for a Contest		Amy Groshek
The Sky I Die by Will be Grey		Todd Boss
The Death of a Scholar		Andrew Merton
Your Date with Death
The Mortician's Fiance		Sara McKinnon
Mass Grave at Shiloh		James Doyle
The May of Winter		Elizabeth Swados
Fight or Flight		Christine Butterworth-McDermott
Ultrasound Aubade		Amber Flora Thomas
Cavity in the Rubenesque Facade
Meditation of Four West