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Issue 5, believe it, is here !!
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from "Interment of the Document Thresh"
"On the outskirts of the capital, citizens stood on roadsides and bridges for a glimpse of the procession. There were claps and whistles as the central dais came into view." 
Pedro Ponce's flash fiction has appeared recently in Quick Fiction, elimae, Marginalia, DIAGRAM: The Second Print Anthology, and PP/FF: An Anthology. His longer fiction can be found in Ploughshares, Small Spiral Notebook, The Beacon Best of 2001, and other publications. He teaches at St. Lawrence University.
Emily Roz has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Front Room, Subdivision, ABC No Rio in New York and Decatur Blue in Washington DC. She lives in New York City.
(artwork featured: "Excavator Family", 2007, colored pencil on paper, 22x30) 
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from "Fresh Snow" by Bill Cook
"..."I didn’t say any-thing, except what are you doin.” Out my mile-wide window, Dad skidded in fresh snow. Everyone turned and looked. Mom said. “Oooeee. Breakfast!” Ginny sniggered and reached for my spare matchbox...." from "Incend" by Terri Griffith " ...She keeps a diary of newspaper stories of the victims whose fires she has attended. Nothing formal, just the next day’s story clipped from the paper while she drinks her morning coffee. Then on Sunday, the accompanying obituary... "
Bill Cook lives in a semi-rural area in Southern California’s High Desert, and has stories published in Skive Magazine, Thieves Jargon, and VerbSap.
Terri Griffith's work has appeared in BUST, Suspect Thoughts and is included in the anthology Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class. Along with her literary partner Nicholas Alexander Hayes, she is at work on a book-length collection of transgressive retellings of the Greek Myths. She is also The Book Advocate for the Chicago-based arts podcast Bad at Sports.
Benicia Gantner is a California artist currently living and working in San Francisco.
She received her MFA in Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art and has shown her dream-like reductive landscapes nationally in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Seattle, and San Francisco. Her work is currently on view at Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley.
(artwork featured: "Bound Cloud" and "A (ledged) landscape" 2006, vinyl on laminated panel) |
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from "The Bear Planet Edict"
"...our youngest brother grew to be a wildman—yet discontentedly so, for his life’s aspiration was to build with concrete and glass, design the crystal towers of the future. He took his revenge by sneaking back into our home one night, and inked sepia circles on our heads with porcupine quills while we slept. This began a difficult chapter for my family...."
Forrest Roth is the author of Line and Pause
(BlazeVOX, 2006) and curates the COMMUNIQUE Flash
Fiction reading series for the Just Buffalo Literary
Center of Buffalo, New York. His work has appeared or
is forthcoming in Noon, Quick Fiction, Paragraph, Snow
Monkey, Elimae, Alice Blue Review, and other
publications.
Lisa Kuppinger is a chicago-area artist who in her words explores the idea of being a wordy worldling through animalisms, hair-brained cookery, hocus pocuses and other billowy riddlings.
(artwork featured: "Bang! Bang!" and "Taking a Hand Out", 2006, oil and acrylic on panel) 
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from "Morning Ritual"
"...She turns on her computer and printer before returing to the bedroom. Standing before her quartersawn oak dresser in just the socks and sweatshirt, left top drawer open, she runs her fingers over small balled up garments until she finds what she wants,...."
Amy O'Daniel lives and works in Chicago. This is her first published piece of fiction.
Cammi Climaco is a New York-based artist. The quache paintings featured in issue 2 are taken from her exhibit
"Small-Scale Love Stories" originally shown at Silo Gallery in New York City.
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from "Learning Chinese"
"...Whether it actually happened wasn't the point. Making Ed believe it had was. Lou loved those kinds of head games. Like the morning I was having breakfast at his house and he started in about the yolk of my fried egg really being an unborn chicken and if I looked closely I would find teeny-tiny bones and a beak and maybe even an eye...."
Gary Wilson's fiction has appeared in such literary journals as GLIMMER TRAIN, QUARTERLY WEST, WITNESS, ORCHID, THE WILLIAM AND MARY REVIEW, and DESCANT among others. A QUICK FICTION story will appear in FLASH FICTION FORWARD from W. W. Norton in 2006. His novel, SING, RONNIE BLUE, is due for publication in the spring of 2007 by Rager Media. The story "Learning Chinese" first appeared online with QUICK FICTION.
He has two sons and lives with his wife in Chicago, where he teaches fiction writing at the University of Chicago, Graham School of General Studies.
The photograph on the front of issue 1 is a reflected view from Wilson's Chicago apartment.
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