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March '06 (The "Beg, Borrow, & Steal" Issue)

Victims
Andrew Bomback

Zach: An Intervention
Pasha Malla

Ouzo
Kim Chinquee

O is for Octopus
Susannah Breslin

Salvador Plascencia Interview
George Ducker

Sea World
Stefan Kiesbye

6 things i want to see more of
brad


December '05 (guest-edited by Christopher Monks)

New York Times Exclusive
by Greg Ames

The Writer's Life
by Tom Barlow

Let the Reader Beware
by Richard Grayson

I am so sorry that my homing device was chafing your ankle
by John Jodzio

Use Your Indoor Voice
by David Gianatasio

The Six Times I Tried Smoking
by Nathaniel Missildine


November '05 (guest-edited by Claudia Smith)

Learning to Ride a Bicycle
by Amanda Deutch

Iceland
by Dorothee Lang

Genius
by Terri Brown-Davidson

Kisses on the Forehead
by Liliana V. Blum
translated by Toshiya Kamei

Margaret and Beak Discuss Jazz for the Last Time
by Kathy Fish

Lawrence Welk's Last Erection
by Linda Boroff

The Star
by Bob Arter

Rawhide
by Kim Chinquee


OCTOBER '05 (stories that Brad likes)

Poker Night
by Andy Henion

More Than a Little Impressed
by Peggy Johnson

Down With the Ship, Yo
by Brian Beatty

Crazy Jake and Me
by Lincoln Michel

Sportscaster Reporting About Dwarf Athletes at the 1984 Olympic Games
by Jonathan Shipley

The Time-Hopping Inter-Era Pirate Talk Show Host
by Nick Mainieri

Selected Pages From "The Dark of Horgath: A 'Choose the Adventure You Want' Adventure from Thac0 Publishing"
by Brooks Callison


SEPTEMBER '05 (guest-edited by Savannah Schroll)

The Unusual Emigration of Franklin Lewitt
by Sloan Schang

Warm
by William Painter

For the Good
by J. L. Laughlin

The Dogwalker
by Amy Shearn

Auspices
by Justin Bonsey

First Impressions
by Peter Clarke


JUNE '05

He Liked Fighting Nazis
by Jonathan Shipley

Injured Wolf Howls at the Moon
by Lincoln Michel

How to Have Your Portrait Painted
by K. B. Dixon

Harvey's Mouth
by Caroline Kepnes

What it Means When the Sky Turns Pink and the Rain Starts to Fall
by Kevin Kalinowski


MAY '05

The Combat Photographer
by Dave Housley

Aversions
by Gregory Howard

Blue and Yellow Polka Dot
by Wayne Scheer

Jazz Club Serenade
by Paul Germano

Sympathy
by Christina Delia


APRIL '05 (Baseball Issue)

The Wolfman in Barry Bonds
by Tim Denevi

Joltin Joe Has Left and Gone Away
by Tod Goldberg

Sinker in the Hole
by Bob Arter

Barrie Blonz
by Randall Brown

Course Catalog for Jose Canseco's Baseball Academy
by Christopher Monks


MARCH '05

Family Values
by Erik Olsen

Housewarming
by Hilarie Shanley

Nightfall
by Nicholas Grider

You Don't Listen Anymore
by David Henry Fears

Saved
by Todd Robert Petersen

Silence
by Nathan Leslie


FEBRUARY '05 (SURGERY OF MODERN WARFARE TRIBUTE)

Two Shorts
by Greg Gerke

The New Apartment
by CL Bledsoe

Film Conservation
by Donnie Boman

The Time Machines
by David Gianatasio

The Writer On Tour Secretly
by Matthew Simmons

Noah, at Home, Afterwards
by Corey Mesler


DEC '04 / JAN '05 (Hobart #4 extras)

Guest Edited by...
by Ryan Boudinot

Plane Crash Stories
by Stephen Elliott

Apparition
by Stephany Aulenback

EP No. 5
by Calvin Liu

Prequel to "The Telepathic Beauty"
by Lee Klein

NOVEMBER '04

Off Track
by David Gianatasio

In the Trunk
by Jay Wexler

Every Beautiful Thing
by Bonnie Ruberg

Vacation Planner
by Miriam M. Kotzin and
Bill Turner

Floating Inside
by Laurie Seidler


OCTOBER '04

The Exit Colony
by Spencer Dew

Pissing
by Shane Jones

Something Happened
by Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz

The Apothecary
by Alan Danzis

Well Protected
by Tim Bacon


AUGUST / SEPTEMBER '04

The Bottle
by Matthew Simmons

The Novelist
by Tao Lin

A Sheltered Paradox
by Samantha Enns

Three Versions of How I Found My Winter Coat
by Brendan Kiley


MAY '04

Battling Monsters
by Carmen Adair

In the Sea
by Wayne H. W Wolfson

The Devil and Judy Peters
by L. D. Petterson

The Unread Story
by Rattan Mann

Soccer Dad
by Randall Brown


APRIL, BASEBALL '04

A Nice Life
by Andrew Bomback

Joe Lee's Fastball
by Dave Clapper

A Fool's Faith (an essay excerpt) - Truth and the Aftermath
by Dennis Dillingham

Priceless
by Elizabeth Ellen

Stay on Second: Two Telling Moments in One Woman’s Quarter Century of Playing Ball Both Hard & Soft
by Lee Klein

brad's reviews

MARCH '04

Ultimate Fearless
by Derek Murphy

Smile
by David Gianatasio

Showmanship
by Savannah Schroll

How To Train Mules
by Dianne McKnight

The Field
by John Leafey

FEBRUARY '04

The Movie With All the Skeletons
by Louise Howerow

That Which Is Revealed in the Absence of Light
by Elizabeth Ellen

Our Anniversary
by Ian F. King

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I
by Ryan Robert Mullen

A Brief Succession of Events in the American Southwest
by Mike McGowan

JANUARY '04

Luck
by C.L. Bledsoe

The Movie I Remember
by David Gianatasio

Physics Lesson
by Gary Glauber

Liar
by Claudia Smith

My Fifty Dollar Coffee Cup
by Francis Raven

DECEMBER '03

Wiring Man
by John Colt

Drifting
by Darby Larson

At the Observation Park
by Michelle Garren Flye

"P"
by Savannah Schroll

Jane
by C.L. Bledsoe

Gene Simmons Pauses to Consider His Legacy
by Ryan Boudinot

OCTOBER '03

Showing Raylene
by Jennifer Cande

It Is What Fiction
by Pasha Malla

On Top of the Hill
by Mike Standaert

Screenplay
by Mark Gordon

Vows of Silence
by David Gianatasio

The Museum of the House
by Ali Fahmy

SEPTEMBER '03

Coffee
by Kim Chinquee

Memo for the Living
by Matthew Flaming

Ferris Wheel
by Karen Ashburner

AUGUST '03

87 Cars
by Pia Ehrhardt

The Brick Men
by Brian Ames

Stoplight
by Claudia Smith

JULY '03

Gravity
by Susan Henderson

Wings
by James Sutter

Barge
by Joseph Young.

JUNE '03

Sunlight in Florida
by Nicole Schoentag

This is Your Only Warning
by Catherine Kasper

One of These You's is Really Me
by Donnie Boman

MAY '03

Big Time Trucking
by C Nolan Deweese

Touching Tires
by David Erlewine

"K"
by John Colt

APRIL, BASEBALL '03

The Afternoon of the Babe
by J.D. Finch

The Steve Garvey Affair
by Tod Goldberg

The Fashion Ups and Downs of My Little League Career
by Christopher Monks

Baseball Messiah
by Whitney Pastorek

Take Me Out
by Claire Zulkey

brad's reviews


MARCH '03

Trula Said
by Amy Day Wilkinson

Obey Giant
by Yael Ziman

Forest Hills Clutter
by Jnana Hodson


FEBRUARY '03

Photography
by Donnie Boman

Jokes with confusing or nonexistent punch lines
by Eric Spitznagel and Brandon Kruse

The Beast
by Jesus Miguel Mendoza

DECEMBER '02

How to Win Friends
by Avital Gad-Cykman

Scooter
by Jesus Miguel Mendoza


OCTOBER '02

The Man as a Man
by Shya Scanlon

One Dalmatian
by Mark Walling

SEPTEMBER '02

Responses
by Bethany Mattone

Tiny
by Jonathan Roy

AUGUST '02

Boxing Moths
by Galen Wade

Best Friends
by Suzy Reddan

JULY '02

This is How it Was
by Mike McGowan

Another Friday Night
by John Leafey

JUNE '02

A Day in the City &
Heavy With Drink and Tenure
by Adam Clay

Bill's Damn Cats
by Jennifer Bowers


MAY '02

Closing Time at the Diamond Cabaret
by Aaron Gwyn

Forgetting Days
by Logan Ryan Smith


APRIL '02

A Little Drink
by Wayne H.W Wolfson

poems: sayings
by Jeremy Snider


...before APRIL '02

Lavinia's Son Considers His Place Setting
by Aaron Gwyn

Meretricious
by Jonny Lieberman