Issue Eleven

December 2005

From the Editor

Tomorrow, after I’ve had a few hours of sleep, I will have much, much more to say (don’t I always?), but for now, I will say this: it would not surprise me to find, upon looking in the mirror, that I had grown green fur and was sporting a Santa suit. The way that the… Continue reading Issue Eleven

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Read the Interview:
Smoking with Our Guest Editor — Myfanwy Collins
About the Interviewer Randall Brown

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Smoking With Our Artistic Director – Marty D. Ison
About the Interviewer Randall Brown

Forks in the Road Eve Abrams(Read author interview)
Retirement Home Greg Ames(Read author interview)
No One Left to Care About the Fat Man Rusty Barnes(Read author interview)
A Drop of Dew Edgar Omar Avilés(Read author interview)
The Mother’s Guide to Flight Patterns Theresa Boyar(Read author interview)
It’s All True Nadine Darling(Read author interview)
What She Gave to the Sea Katrina Denza(Read author interview)
It Patry Francis(Read author interview)
Cemetery Day Laurie Frankel(Read author interview)
Cityscape Judd Hampton(Read author interview)
The Black Squirrels of Ottawa Niranjana Iyer(Read author interview)
Diagnosis Beverly A. Jackson(Read author interview)
Green Monster Erica Plouffe Lazure(Read author interview)
Sophie, Now Mary McCluskey(Read author interview)
A Blind Dog Named Killer and a Colony of Bees Mary Miller(Read author interview)
The Sky Is a Well Claudia Smith(Read author interview)
You Only Get One Chance to Be El Latigo Elizabeth Smith(Read author interview)
Flights Jim Tomlinson(Read author interview)
Song of Giants Girija Tropp(Read author interview)
Ice Joseph Young(Read author interview)

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