Issue 6: November '06
With work by Tom Conoboy, Brad Johnson, Kevin P. Keating, Arlene Ang, and Chip Cheek.
FictionShort Short
The Books
by Chip Cheek • 11.01.2006Sometimes, late at night, when I’m browsing the thousand or more books on the shelves in my father’s study, I can hear them, the books, calling out to me. “Oh! Oh!” they say. “Pick me! Pick me!” And no... more »
Poetry
3 Poems
by Arlene Ang • 11.01.2006rest : stop rib- eye steak she says : lichen tattoos the fire hydrant : bar stool je ne sais quoi like guns like scampi... more »
Nonfiction
Jazz and Cocktails at the Center of the World
by Kevin P. Keating • 11.01.2006During a short visit to New York City several years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. more »
Fiction
This is Dave Radio
by Tom Conoboy • 11.01.2006Feel it fill your mind, fill your head. You like that, Dave, it’s like having your tummy tickled. Feel that music, become it; you know it’s so much easier when you let go. more »
(de)Classified
Two Curtains
by Randall Brown • 11.01.2006Toto pulls the curtain open and poof!, the enormous powerful head of the wizard vanishes; poof! to Dorothy’s childhood, poof! to puffed up father figures. Poof, of course, to the Technicolor of Oz. The curtain has revealed the gray behind it, and... more »
Criticism
Handless Maidens: Grimm Tales in Contemporary Cinema
by Margot Miller • 11.01.2006Many stories now considered children’s fare were originally transmitted as code around a campfire, and later in parlor and salon, to convey “truths” that acculturate and perpetuate patriarchal society. more »
