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 Pettina 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 

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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

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

NOTES:

1 - Received Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology

 

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