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Holmes Newton's 1st Law by Sam Nelson Lost is a Place, Too by James Stark Then the Asshole Got Out of His Semi and He Had a Baseball Bat, a Fucking Baseball Bat by Gavin Tierney May 2007 Shoe Shopping by Seth Berg Death Without Dignity by Randall DeVallance Shavings by Mitch Grabois April 2007 The Senate Sends You This by Randall DeVallance Moving Pictures by Thomas Kearnes Color of an Overcast Day by Matthew Limpede In Suspect Terrain by Andrew Palmer March 2007 A Manual on How to Break Your Heart by Terrence Dunn The Dairy Barn by joshua foster Mystery Meats Still a Mystery by Timber Masterson Nicks by James Schlatter Oak Park Stop by Paul Silverman February 2007 Ptomaine by Jeffrey Colvin The Mystery of Advertising and the Monkey of God by Ravsten Cottle Tenebrae by Michael Gurnow Visage by Trevor Johnson Storyteller by Vineesh K The Instant Passing of a Young Drunk Girl by Caroline Kepnes In the Cleavage by Rebecca Kraft Gideon in One of Two Places by Dan Moyer January 2007 Subway Story by Mike Amato The Dodge by Brian Beatty Mad Dog Season by Anita Buehrle Thanks for Coming by Carl Dimitri Three by Jason Huskey Excuse Me, Mr Jenkins? by Mike Jones Phase Twelve by Leif Peterson Life After Dinner by Natalie Rogers The Red Rocket by Paul Silverman December 2006 How to Start the War with the Mexicans by Lindsey Danis Night Milk by Aaron H. Gilbreath Swords Crossing by Paul Silverman Things That Please Us by Paul Vidich August 2006 Death Crab by G. L. Mind Friends Like These by Kristopher Monroe The Infinite Monkey Theorem by Marshall Moore One Fine Day by Ryan Rickert July 2006 Souls and Spark Plugs by Jill Bodach Yes, I wanted to say by Michael Bryson Rose's Apple by Anne Germanacos Vaguegirl2 (forthcoming) by Rob McClure Smith A Million Little Pisces by Stoddard Smith Brave Tomb by Christopher Wallace June 2006 The Last Time I Kiss a Boy by Rebeca Antoine Wildlife by Michael Loughrey Single Malts of the Olympic Peninsula by Steven J. McDermott I fingered you last night by Randy Schwabacher Oh Lucky Man pt. II by Jim Toweill April 2006 The Snake Man by Tala Bar The Thought Game by Tom Conoboy Under the Floorboards by Randy Dalzell Eugene the Radio by John Gorman Gerking The Rejerk Equinoctial by John Oliver Hodges Walk by Paul Kavanagh 7th Day (Cloud) by Rob Anthony Plews With Running Cattle by Michael J. Viscuso Punk Rocker by Peter Wild March 2006 Calvin's Monster by Fred Bubbers Sliver by Dave Morrison Write a Book in 14 Days by Robert Sanchez Expectations by Courtney Tenz The Saints That Burnt Crosses by Matt Thomas War by Chris Turner February 2006 Hand Me Downs by Karin L. Becker I Wash, He Dries by CP Chang The Collector of Things by Lorraine Thomas Slugger by Jeff Van Hanken The Menstrual Cycle of the Mind by Mark Vender January 2006 Driving Naked Westward After Midnight by S. Melinda Dunlap Big Angry Cocks by Karl Koweski Pride by Margot Landau Rabbit: retold by Jenny Lederer by Jenny Lederer The King of Friday Night by Brent Powers Ten Cups by Adam J. Silver Sedge by Paul Silverman December 2005 Lord Baxtor Ballsington by Owen Egerton shaving cream or one last fling by Lisa Hanson Slice-of-life-vignette-story by Andrew Minh Still Weight by J. F. 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Ogle The X-Rated Adventures of Mrs. Monroe by Gavin Tierney The Twice-Sold Plot by Paul Vidich May 2005 Remedy by George Ayres Twice Shy by Arndt Britschgi Cure by Rita Kasperek Laser Eye by Nathan Leslie Stool Specimen by Henry Stanton April 2005 Buffalo Pass by Sarah Black Yellow Empress by Eugenia Chao There Are No Tigers Here by Kevin Kalinowski Megaplex by Sean Kim Sebastian Bugs by Aliya Whiteley March 2005 Safi by Pilgermann BM May the Road Rise by Michael Bryson What’s in a Name? by Kyle Deacon A Good Woman by Mike Mellish Safety Factory by Trevor Richardson Lineage Sickness by Caskey Russell February 2005 Sinkhole by Brad Conlin Stealing From the Dead by Paul Ewing The Spider Monkey by Steve Lavender There But For the Pinks by Khrynn Yvonne McManus Sweetie Professor Darling by George Sparling Hospital=Morgue by D.W. Young January 2005 Colour of Friendship by Debra Broughton You Have the Body by Zachary Houle Parable of the Sudden Storm by Louis Malloy Extreme Sports by Inderjeet Mani What We Call Living by Jen McConnell December 2004 The Cat is On the Table by Ethan Bernard The High-Heeled Shoe by Brandon Cole After Constantina by Spencer Dew Wayne’s World by R.A. Rubin Idiot by Daniel Thant November 2004 The Curve by Drew Gummerson It Ain’t No Nine to Five by Shawna A. Smart Turkey Dinner with Little Bear by Spencer Troxell October 2004 Ted and Bud by Andrew Koob The American Book of the Dead by Chris Lites The Red Side by Adam O’Connor Rodríguez September 2004 I Just Want To Tell You... by Zachary Houle The Bottle Game by Greg Mulcahy The Pleasure-Bird Whistles by Paul A. Toth The Twins That Burn Eternity Into Your Soul by Robert Vivian August 2004 Sea by Bay Anapol Family Ink by Daniel Cox The Thousand Flowers by Bonnie Ruberg Working With Jimmy by Paul Silverman We are always looking more like skeletons. by R. Simonini Jokers by Grant Tracey July 2004 My Roommates by Don Fredd Everything Included by James Lewelling Showing My Brother Matt by Ilana Simons June 2004 The Town That Went to Sleep by Brian Biswas It Happens by Adam Maxwell Target by Christopher J. Stephens Deja Vu You Too, Champ by Damon Stewart May 2004 The Sublime by Debra Johanyak Tuesday by Marc Phillips One Sweet Day by George Sparling April 2004 The Passion of Corpus Christi by Stephen Ausherman Nocturnal Alignment by Misha Firer Croquet, Okay by Jay Wexler March 2004 The Only Way to Be by Flash Dixon Eschatology by John Calvin Hughes Even Trade by Karl Koweski February 2004 The Watermelon Vodka Ultimatum by Katerie Prior Think Beyond Wood by Paul Silverman Performing for the House by Ilana Simons January 2004 Kathmandu by David Brizer The Whisky Didn't Help at All... by Annie Forbes Cooper Out of Sight by Phoebe Kate Foster The Verifications by Michael Fowler Bio Clock and Nutty Photos by Julie Shapiro The Waking by Felicia C. Sullivan December 2003 Sterile Swab to the Eye by Jaime Campbell Pennies by Alan Danzis The Medium and the Message by Daniel Green Revolution by Kristin Julio How to Catch a Good Girl by Claudia Smith Spoonbill by Leslie Van Newkirk November 2003 New Fruit by Blake Butler Something to Tell Gina by H. A. Fleming Hoarder by David Gianatasio Rolling with Rodney King by Roy Johnson Charlie's Machine by Nicolas Lloyd The Lovely Dust by Zach Sims September 2003 The Girl in the Coffee Shop by T. Micheal In the Corner of God's Eye by Robert Paxton Managing Desire by Jennifer Prado Something to Fit Daisy by Shya Scanlon Fishing with Lee Marvin by Patrick Seguin Joanna by S. R. van der Linden August 2003 Shine by Julie Douglas The Good Person by Andrew Edge Retired by Elizabeth Galaida The Stroller by David Gianatasio While You Were Out by Gary Glauber They Sent Us in to Secure the Sector by John Leary Love Scavenger by Claudia Smith July 2003 Hold Rebel by Karl Koweski June 2003 A Wing, a Prayer and a Tall Man by Timothy Gager Dretelj by Paddy Hirsch Rope Music (Fifty-Three Minutes) by Sean Meriwether May 2003 The Lower Half by Amy Hembree After Graduation by Steve Silkin Dear National Museum of Glass by Adam Voith April 2003 Little Deaths by Ashley Baker Turbulence by Diane Payne Olivia's Letters Are a Long Way Home by Kathrine L. Wright March 2003 Child's Seat by Jonny Lieberman A Song to Make You Smile by Michelle Righini Luck by Marnie Webb February 2003 The Viewing by Tanya Eby A Fighting Chance by Karl Koweski Hank and Diane by Rob Neighbors Ever After by Adam Emerson Pachter When He Found Me by Kevin Sampsell January 2003 Celebrity by Karen Ashburner Anthony by Johnny Damm Master of Puppets by Debbie Eden The One Thing to Do by Gwendolyn Mintz Emmo Is in My Car! by Robin Slick Careless by Claire Zulkey December 2002 Coat of Arms by Debbie Eden Living with the Meaning of Names by D.T. Harris Jimmy Grim and the Reapers by Tobias Seamon Everyone Just Wants to Feel Good by James Simpson The Gary Game by Tim Waldron Stranger on the Loose by D. Harlan Wilson November 2002 Death By Bricolage by Aldo Alvarez Beauty for Beasts by Muhammad Khan The Professor and I by Max Liu At the White Falls Hotel by Benjamin Reed Worlds Apart by Asim Rizki At Church by Lisa Taddeo October 2002 Rico's Corner by George Ayres Close Calls by Yvonne Chism-Peace Catatonic by Kristin Julio When Things Get Back to Normal by Suzette Lisuk, M.A. FCIMA by Scott McIntyre The Voiceover Man by D. Harlan Wilson September 2002 The Old Russian by Suzanne Gold Matrimony by Ryan Miller Intuition by Marcella Salisbury August 2002 Breaking Glass by Sarah Arellano Stone Benches by Christine Falcone Why I Married My Wife by Robert Levin Murder by Invention (or The Artist as Cunning Killer) by Thomas Sheehan July 2002 Changer's Blues by Ellen Brenner Village Songs by Neil Grimmet Shop Around by Susan T. Landry Welcome to the Truth by Jordan Rosenfeld Never Ask Directions from One Who's Lost by Kenneth Simpson The Fragility of Glass by Jennifer Summer June 2002 Squirting Chubbies by Tom Bradley Red Trunks & Blue Water by Tanya Eby Bones by Nat Lawson A Happy, Life-Affirming Story by Peter Vaeth May 2002 The Impulsive Man by D. Harlan Wilson April 2002 Double Hendrix by David Barringer Bruising Hildy by Katharine McAllaistar March 2002 This Broken Machine by Finlay Logan