Volume 9, Issue 1 :: March 2009

Featured Writing

When a Porn Star Steals a Poet’s Name
Poetry by Natasha Kochicheril Moni

Shadow
Poetry by Aaron M. Wilder

Existentialism at the God Rodeo
Fiction by Diana Goble

Schadenfreude
Fiction by Clare Hughes

Buzzards in the Projection Booth
Fiction by H.H. Morris

The M.A.A.T.
Fiction by John Riha

Already Gone
Fiction by A.M. Riley

Dead Cat
Fiction by Melanie Summers

Editor’s Picks

Ana’s Pick * A Requiem for Javier
Fiction by Dave S. Shearer

Baker’s Pick * The Oaten Hands
Fiction by Nathaniel Tower

Bellman’s Pick * Strike
Poetry by Casey Hill

Boots’s Pick * Do Not Go Gentle
Fiction by Richard Wolkomir

Contest Winners

Dead of Winter Writing Contest
Judged by Baker & Billiard
Theme: choice of Alaska, Alternative Santa,
Blood River Bridge or Ventriloquist
Word limit: 4500 words

First: Ice Under the Bridge
by Ryan Peterson

Second: Merry and Monroe
by Shannon Schuren

Third: Bridging Christmas
by Kristi Petersen Schoonover

Honorable Mention: Frozen Returns
by Elizabeth Hymoff

Columns

Best of the Boards
Iraq
by Matthew David Curtis

The Snark Zone: Letters From The Editors
Carpe Diem
by Theryn “Beaver” Fleming

In memory of Homer Harold Morris 1937–2008