Fiction

Issue 1

The Endless Visit By Richard Burgin

Hannah by Randall Brown

Concrete Shelter by Randall Brown

The Rape of Conversion by Randall Brown

Acorns and Conkers by Kay Sexton

Tumbling and The Day Superman Died by Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz

Issue 2

The Time Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Do You Love Me? by Ann Hood

Kiosk: A Story I've Been Meaning to Tell by Gail Galloway-Adams

Two Years and Seventeen Months by Luke Whisnant

Snowrise by Ania Vesenny

Issue 3

Fortuna Egozi Pierces Her Ears by Ruth Behar

The Stain by Paula Marantz Cohen

Inertia by Alicia Gifford

Sister Gwendolyn by Antonios Maltezos

Autumn in Zimbabwe by Wadzanai Mhute

The Left-Handed Brother by Anthony Pirnot

Issue 4

Spoils of the Death Road by Sefi Atta

Tines by Russell Bittner

Hypergraphia by Kathy Fish

Something Nice From London by Petina Gappah

The Edge of the Pot by Liesl Jobson 1

Issue 5

Cold Ocean by Richard Burgin

Falling Like Snow by Barbara Jacksha

All That Flies from You by Daniel Karasik

Olives by Nathan Leslie

What I Omitted from the Official Personnel Services Report by R. T. Smith 2

Issue 6

The Circus Life by Nadine Darling

Retablo by Mary Estrada

Of Love and Insects by Muthoni Garland

A Second Story by Georgi Gospodinov translated by Magdalena Levy and Alexis Levitin

Gaustine by Georgi Gospodinov translated by Magdalena Levy and Alexis Levitin 

Issue 7

Palomar by Jennifer Anthony

Five Reasons You Shouldn’t Read Your Mother’s Diary by Cheryl Chambers

Postcards from November by Liesl Jobson

Engorged by Leonard Kress

Happiness Runs by Lesley C. Weston

Issue 8

Semi-Permanent Red by Jennifer Byrne

The Annexe Shuffle by Petina Gappah

Centerpiece by John Martin

Cousins TV Repair and Antenna By Lorna Smedman

Your Hair, Your Weight by Maryanne Stahl

Gani’s Fall by Molara Wood  

Issue 9

The Jailer by Liesl Jobson

Heat by Nance Knauer

Metaphysics by Wayne Lewis

The Dolphin King By Kuzhali Manickavel

Ratface by Daniel Post

The Day Independence Came by Chika Unigwe

Breakfront by Lesley C. Weston

Issue 10

3- Grief Mongers - from the coming novel Swallow by Sefi Atta

Nothing - Flash Fiction by Dave Clapper

Through the Looking Glass, from the novel Bira, a Novel by Tsitsi Dangarembga

How They Met - from the novel His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon

Backbone - Flash Fiction by Kathy Fish

Silver Leaves for Judah Jones by Vanessa Gebbie

Blaming Madame Kay - Flash Fiction by Antonios Maltezos

Issue 11

Mother of Pearl by Sally Bellerose

Teatime with John Gaaru by Kiran Bharthapudi

Riding Monkey with Pako by Victor Ehikhamenor

Heavy Transport by Beverly A. Jackson

The Hill and the Valley by Lauren Schenkman

Issue 12

The Audrey Me by Frankie Drayus

Cancer Arm by Kathy Fish

Afternoon Tea by Robert Leone

My Dead Partner by Antonios Maltezos

Mine by David Moore Robinson

Moving Day by Lewis Turco

Issue 13

The Curse of the Golden Carp by Elaine Chiew

In the Palace of Cortés by Clifford Garstang

Photophobia by Mary Lynn Reed

Tourist Photography by Bruce Holland Rogers

Free Rice by Molara Wood

The Scarcity of Common Goods by Molara Wood

Issue 14

My Mother’s Cold Dead Hands Around My Throat by David Evanier

In the Glow by Nick Mamatas

Throwing Rocks At Dogs by Kuzhali Manickavel

Our Auntee Maria by Monica Arac de Nyeko

Step by R. T. Smith

Issue 15

The Dream by Stephen Dixon

Winds by Zdravka Evtimova

Richard by Mary Feuer

Freshening by Gwenna Johnson

"You’ve Got to Speak Out Against the Madness" from Alice by John Langdon

A Rare Night Out by Ed Meek

Existentialism, Japanese Hotel and Leaving Home by Steven Schrader

Issue 16

Twister by Simon Larter

A Mound by Nathan Leslie

Fountain by Glen Pourciau

Flute Lesson by Kevin Spaide

The Baby In The Carriage By Lewis Turco

Job Interview by Dimitre Zlatinov

Issue 17

Put That Madhouse Back in Your Pocket by Arlene Ang and Valerie Fox

The Amma Who Took French Leave by Rumjhum Biswas

The Dolphin by Richard Burgin

Vassar by Gwenna Johnson

Watering by Maryanne Stahl

Waiting by Chika Unigwe

Issue 18

Loveland Pass by Mel Bosworth

Nadine by Stephen Dixon

The Parking Victim by Robert Kaye

A Dry and Dusty Home by T.C. McCarthy

Trunk Story by M.E. Parker

Punctuation by Elizabeth Thorpe

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NOTES:

1 - Received Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology

 

2 - To be published in the Best of The Web 2008 Anthology

 

3 - Top Ten in the 2009 Million Writers Award