Christmas Number, 2003
Vol. VII, No. 1, Whole Number 11
FICTION
“Daily Routine”
By Jay Pinkerton
“A Time I Never Knew”
By Alexandra Leggat
“Break and Enter”
By David Whitton
“I Love You, Pretty Puppy”
By Emily Schultz
“All Things Being Equal”
By Shannon Quinn
THE OUT-OF-TOWNER
“Flowers Don’t Frighten Me So Much Any More”
By Kim Dawn
ILLUSTRATED FICTION
“Heinous scabus eaticus”
By Rachelle Maynard
PROFILE
Derek McCormack
Toronto’s midnight cowboy rises from the gutter with a new book to scare up readers.
By Conan Tobias
On Punctuation, typography, and such
“Ode to the En Dash”
POEMS
“In Manhattan One Evening with the Reverand Al Sharpton”
By John Degen
“If I Were Burt Reynolds”
By Karyn Bonham
“Tea with Satan”
By Trevor Davis
“Orlando”
By Stan Rogal
“Fish Bones”
By Nancy Gobatto
“Plum”
By Elana Wolff
“Palm Spring Stories No. 1”
By R. M. Vaughan
COVER STAR
Unknown, circa 1963. Photographer unknown.











