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What Happened to Us These Last Couple Years?
SHORT STORIES

October 2009
Not Your Typical Girl by Jon Bohr
The Long Grass by Ryan W. Bradley
A Glass of Water by CS DeWildt
Air Over Air by John Givens
Bleeder by Brett Matthew Graham
Memphis Apartment, Downtown Poplar and Vine by Sean Lovelace
Myrtle Avenue by Courtney Mauk
Cut, Chew, Swallow by Samantha Schlaifer

September 2009
A Little Expensive by Chidi Asoluka
Firstborn by Jake Christie
Welcome to the Mead Hall by Rowdy Geirsson
Crossing Borders by Sylvia Martínez
The Firestarter by Scott McClanahan
House of Holes by Timothy Raymond
Confederates by Charles Dodd White

August 2009
Mercurial Affections by Philip Brunetti
In the Street of Cats by Jac Cattaneo
We Don't Make Love by Brent Krammes
Rhode Island Gothic by Andrée Pagès

July 2009
Legacy by Grant Bergland
The Teacher by Wyatt Bonikowski
A Brilliant Compromise by Sean M. Lawrence
Christmas in Mexico by Jennifer Shumate
That Something We Needed by Casey Wiley

June 2009
Rejection by Simon Barker
In My Office—Now! by D. E. Fredd
Fishbowl by Melanie Haney
Expecting by Claire Merle
We Are All Animals by Amanda Montei

May 2009
The Ballad of Donald Lane by Brad Conlin
The Dripping Net by Nels Hanson
Polar Bears by Rose Hunter
Detached by Paul Lewellan
How Was I To Know, If You Didn't Tell Me by Jamie Lin
Three Mistakes by Richard Thomas
The Displacement of Salvatore by Joseph Winter

April 2009
Bone Density by Roxane Gay
Epitaphs by Daniel Homan
A Dangerous Shine by Tamara Linse
My Dad Builds the House by Gary Moshimer
The Living, the Dying by Luke Rolfes
Double Shift, May 1955 by Donna D. Vitucci

March 2009
Blink by Chuck Campbell
Roach by Jane Elia
Random Saves by Sharon Goldner
Sati by Chris Lenton
The Surprise by Kurt Remington
An Honest Man by Doug Rudoff
Truby by Jon Sindell

February 2009
To Sketch a Thief by Elizabeth Buechner Morris
Minimal Pairs by Tom Fillion
Maybe Things Don't Go That Way for Us by Lee Future
Ludus Tonalis by Sandra Maddux-Creech
Scrooge in Psychotherapy by John McCaffrey
Iron for the Soul by Ethel Rohan
In Love with Love and Lousy Poetry by Daniel Schmidt
A Good Plan by Dan Tracy

January 2009
Twenty Minutes' Road by Tobias Carroll
Anna and the Rain by Zdravka Evtimova
Springtime, North Dakota by Mike Florian
Static by Louis Gallo
Rules of the Game by Dylan Gilbert
Two Strangers by Aletheia Plankiw
Two Strings Short by Ann Tinkham

December 2008
Pupils by C.J. Arellano
The Brothers by Simon Barker
Letting Go by Lynne Elson
Freeze Dance by Jane Hertenstein
Throwaways by Jessa Marsh
It's Easy by John Thornton

November 2008
The Pot Party by John Bruce
Meryl’s Raincoat by Elizabeth Fallon
Three's Your Limit by Molly Gaudry
The Watcher by Brian Krans
Open Secrets by Joy Lanzendorfer
Someone Else by Cris Mazza
Someone Else (Part 2) by Cris Mazza
Stay by Tracy Shields
Jamaica Avenue by Giuseppe Taurino
Spilt Milk by Jared Ward

October 2008
Missus by Regan Calmer
Basinkingship by Benjamin Henry DeVries
Water and Light by Mark Dow
American Psycho Club by Destanie McAllister
Road Like Ribbon by Kim Morris
December 15, 2012 by Savannah Schroll Guz
Birds by Jennifer Strickland
The Next Carrie Beth by Molly Tolsky
Home Theater by Paul Vidich
The Problem With Friendship, Identity, Parenting, and the Limited Capacity of Foresight by Kara Weiss

September 2008
Birthing by Clare Beams
The Good Reverend by Timothy Braun
Partners by Steve Cushman
Let's Stop Talking by Ron D'Alena
Unseen Stimuli by Nelson L. Eshleman
Homemade by Jen Gann
Remembering Mérida by Rob Mayette
Prozac Salt Lick by Tamara Palmer

August 2008
They Are Made of Light by Scott Cheshire
Snow Blowing and Grass Mowing by Catherine DiCairano
Hedonism by Susan Lago
The Things That You Know by Jen Larsen
Fried Food and Smoking Is Bad for Your Heart by Halli Melnitsky
Lit Up by John Roberts
Kinds of Violence by Kara Weiss

July 2008
Chasing Ernest by Barbra Annino
Chemistry by Lauren Becker
The Boxer by Evan Fleischer
Sundering Twins by Anne Germanacos
Friendly Advice by Andrei Guruianu
The Adjudicator by Andy Henion
For Us by Caroline Imreibe
Where We Live by Amanda Montei
Being Good by David Saphier

June 2008
Habit by Lindsay Anderberg
Nick's Beer by Joshua Ben-Noah Carlson
Next of Kin by Dan Moreau
Lenny and Earl Go Shooting Off Their Mouths by Ray Morrison
Jack by Jesse Murphree
Back of the Band by Alex Myers

May 2008
A Shoo-In by Linda Boroff
Eating Manny Berkowitz by Scott Boyan
Sugar in My Bowl by Sean Cunningham
You Are One Click Away From Pictures of Nude Girls by Heather Fowler
Leaster by Stephanie Johnson
Herman Loves Brooke by Anthony J. Mohr
Safe Haven by Gary Moshimer
Ripples by Jill Mountain
1926 in Brazilian Football by Aliya Whiteley

April 2008
Coming Apart by Thomas Boulan
The No Loitering Hotel by Jean-Gérald Charbonneau
Flakes by James Terry

March 2008
Blending Into Vancouver by Anne Archer
Judgment Day by Sandra Jensen
Mecca by Alex Ortolani
Maybe Love Can Do That Too by Nick Ostdick
The Best Place by Richard Rippon
Please Don't Eat the Sausage! by Paul Takeuchi
Ragged Fin by Rudy Young

February 2008
Innisfree by Paul Elwork
In Limbo by Greta Igl
A Change of Scenery by Gavin S. Lambert
Squid Story by Kirk Marshall
Cincinnati by Michael K. Meyers
The Cheater by Kevin Michaels

January 2008
Fish Camp Gamers by Todd Dills
Missionary by Paul Eckert
Johnny's Way by Terri Ellis
The Good Guy by Emily Kissell
The Alcoholic Who Knew Damn Well He Was a Writer by Michael Ray Laemmle
The Distended Swede by Rachel Yoder

December 2007
Sunday Visit by Janice Daugharty
Anybody Home? by Chelsea Lowe
Too Much Asia to Wipe Off by Tom Sheehan

November 2007
Cirque de Hommes by Lawrence Buentello
Charlie Judd by Andrew Coburn
This Is Me American Style by Maria Deira
Abject Objectivity Goes for a Walk by Drew Lackovic
From The Psych-Ward by Mathias Nelson
Always There by Mitch Omar
For Better Future Viewing by Nick Ostdick
Moustache by Sean Ruane

October 2007
I Am Jack Ryan by Tom Burkett
Departure by Melanie Cotter
Those Who Trespass by Giano Cromley
The Persistence of Spiders by Peter Grandbois
Desert Rose by Grierson Huffman
Raul Shows Me Things by A.S. King
Reaching Aushak by Roger Pincus
Joseph F. Hailey by Luke Tennis
Kin of the Devil by David Veronese

September 2007
Shitting in the Dark by Casey Anderson
What Gives When Things Are Asked For by Steven Gillis
The Pinch Hitter by J. Conrad Guest
Turnabout by Jala Pfaff
The Plight of Man by Christian Rose
Our Guy by Caleb Ross

August 2007
The Collective Darling by Adam Cushman
Under Water and Under Foot by Brannon Clark Larson
Final Round by J.A. Miller
Snow Day by Daniel Purdy
Target Shooters by Jack Smith
Masturbation and Its Antecedents by Spencer Troxell

July 2007
The Coat by Christina Cavey
A Woolf in Vita's Clothing by Andrew Coburn
The Big Band Sound in the Berkshires by D. E. Fredd
An Appointment by Kevin Hardcastle
Wendell, Darling by Aileen O'Connell
On Broadway by David Veronese

June 2007
A Galloping Infection by Paula Bomer
Second Flowering by John Colvin
Thou Shalt Take Up Serpents by Will Curl
A Close One by Katherine L. 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

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
Ten Cups by Anonymous  
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
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. O'Keane

November 2005
How To Be Loved by Drew Mccoy
Crabwalk by Brian Scullion

October 2005
Tommy Smedley’s Nose by Sean Carswell
Head Injury by Jean-Gérald Charbonneau
Just Noticeable Difference by Michael Hendryx
Miscarriage by Robert Lewis

September 2005
Bite Me by Greg Barbera
Gangbang Tango by Susannah Breslin
Tiny Umbrellas by Devan Sagliani
Saint Django by Spencer Troxell
Ten Gallon Bucket of Fries by Mike Young

June 2005
Another Day by Donald Capone
Nice Closets by Caroline Kepnes
The Great Worm Extermination by J.E. 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

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
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
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