Contents:
Editorial
5 Mark Jarman: The Little Editorial That Could
Fiction
Smokestack Lightning
9 Priscila Uppal: Three Days Left
16 Camilla Gibb: Tom's Sophistication
21 Jaspreet Singh: A Little Bit of Bar-rough
31 Joel Katelnikoff: Falling out of Bed Repeatedly
33 Melanie Little: The Hard Sell
45 Melanie Little: Mrs. Nichol (Montage)
52 Kenneth J. Harvey: Eight Days Ago
Over, Under, Sideways, Down
59 Joanna Cockerline: Postcards (Not Sent) from Africa
65 Patricia Young: Slang for Girl
75 Terence Young: Rumours of Human Sacrifice
83 Linda Mannheim: Somoza's Stones
103 Richard Cumyn: Saints' Rest
111 Marzena Adriana Czarnecka: Russian Sailors
Priestess With Her Wrenches
123 Andrew Steinmetz: Monkey Life
128 Yasuko Thanh: Lula May's Love Stories
139 Grant Buday: from Rootbound
147 Nancy Bauer: The Smell of Shrimps
151 Leon Rooke: Lamplighter Bridegroom 360
Reviews
159 Aletheia Plankiw: The Fetid Zone
The Hydra's Tale: Imagining Disgust, Robert Rawdon
162 Nancy Bauer: Peering into the Future
Coming Attractions 01, ed. Maggie Helwig
Coming Attractions 02, ed. Maggie Helwig and Mark Jarman
166 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Mark Jarman
California, 1986