Literary Journal
ISSN 1551-4064
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal is published quarterly, on the first of March, June, September and December.
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Toasted Cheese nominates for the Best of the Web Anthology, Best of the Net Anthology, the storySouth Million Writers Award, the Pushcart Prize, and The Best Creative Nonfiction anthology.
Archives (Author Index)
- Volume 1 (2001)
- Volume 2 (2002)
- Volume 3 (2003)
- Volume 4 (2004)
- Volume 5 (2005)
- Volume 6 (2006)
- Volume 7 (2007)
- Volume 8 (2008)
- Volume 9 (2009)
All works are copyright their respective authors.
*Featured Writing is work selected for inclusion by a majority of the editors.
**An Editor's Pick is a piece that did not receive a majority vote, but that had the strong support of at least one editor.
Volume 9, Issue 4 :: December 2009
Featured Writing*
The Bank
Poetry by C.L. Bledsoe
Five Poems
Poetry by Paul Hostovsky
Hunger
Poetry by Rae Spencer
Scraps
Flash Fiction by Ethel Rohan
The Repairman
Flash Fiction by Janice D. Soderling
Punctuation
Flash Fiction by Andrew S. Taylor
Stowaways
Fiction by Kimberley Idol
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Fiction by Charles D. Phillips
Louvre Is All U Need
Fiction by Jason D. Schwartz
Midnight at the Oasis
Fiction by Melodie Starkey
Muse at Work
Creative Non-Fiction by Kate Gibalerio
Editor's Picks**
Boots's Pick * Infidels
Fiction by Jim Harrington
Baker's Pick * Meegan Kissinger Wore White
Fiction by Amanda Viviani
Ana's Pick * One Last Storm
Fiction by Chris Yodice
Contest Winners
Three Cheers and a Tiger Writing Contest
Judged by Boots & Ana
Theme: The marginally successful construction of new technology
or the researching of new lore. The process of inventing something often
involves false starts or other unforeseen difficulties (and budget overruns).
The widget (or spell, or potion) kind of works, mostly, until…
Word Range: 2500–2600 words.
Gold: Dante's Grid
by Liz Mierzejewski
Silver: Tech Support
by Ari Susu-Mago
Bronze: Prisoner's Potion
by Dixie Sorensen
Regular Columns
Best of the Boards
The Stiff
by Kirk Becken
The Snark Zone: Letters From The Editors
Pattern Recognition
by Theryn "Beaver" Fleming