Peruse content from past issues below.
COLUMNY [ The Alpha, Enema and Omega of Amalgamation ]
— Eric Swenson
Too much information
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Blood Carnations ]
— Wayne Kessler
M is for the many things she gave me...
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Christmas of an Illegal Immigrant ]
— Misha Firer
It could be worse.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Cooking With Betty ]
— Johanna Schreiber
Page or Crocker?
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Editors Exposed ]
— Shya Scanlon
An Anthropological Investigation of the Editorus rejectionus
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ An Entomological Lobotomy of Rage ]
— Wayne Kessler
We Want a New Drug
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Fischl Takes the Fall ]
— Mark Cajigao
Further proof of the nonexistence of common sense.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Get In The Game ]
— Angus Grindrod
Learn how to be just as prolific as Roger Claybar.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Good Ways to Avoid Serial Killers and Other Bad Types of People ]
— Tyler Mongerson
Deputy Dan es su amigo.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ The Great Tag Line Contest ]
The magazine needs your help.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ An Interview with Mark Eitzel ]
— Wayne Kessler
A conversation about songwriting with the former front man of American Music Club.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Keeping My Dad Safe: Inside Me ]
— Wayne Kessler
Who’s your daddy?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 7 / June 2002 [ Legend in His Own Mind ]
— Paul A. Toth
The Legend of the Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
A call to arms
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 1 / December 2001 [ Letter from the Editor ]
A taint by any other name would still smell as sweet...
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Chaucer was right.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The 2002 Olympic Games: A Revolting Display
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The April Issue—No Foolin’
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 5 / April 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Send in the clones, already!
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Out of the humidor, into the fire
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 7 / June 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Global Warming
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The true path to enlightenment
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The Markus Mystique
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The issue at hand, big things afoot
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 11 / October 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The end of a great year
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The First Annual 2002 Tainty Awards!
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Fancy-free in 2003
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Hooray for February
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 15 / February 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Vive la resistance!
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Life is skittles, life is beer
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Oh, Canada, you so CRAZY!
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Come on, baby. You know I love you.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Filthy lucre.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 21 / August 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Just shoot me.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Au revoir, Monsieur Plimpton!
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Just throw the coats on the bed. What can I get you to drink?
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The 2003 Taintys
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Letter from the Editor ]
What is the point of having cake if you can’t eat it?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ Letter from the Editor ]
when the jig is up
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ Letter from the Editor ]
gather ye rosebuds
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Letter from the Editor ]
Will it ever end?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ Letter from the Editor ]
The only Summer Fiction Issue you need to read.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Letter to the Editor ]
From a certain William F. Buckley
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Letter to the Editor ]
Klaatu, Barada, Nikto
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 7 / June 2002 [ Letter to the Editor ]
— Kathleen Robbins
The Segway segue.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Letter to the Editor ]
— Allison Wolcott
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ My Shaking Fist ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
The belly of the beast
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ My Shaking Fist ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
My way or the Segway
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ New York Born ]
— Rosemarie Savino
...and they can’t take that away from me.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Of Koosh, and How I Came to be Called It ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
In case you were wondering…
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ On Fighting the Death Within Us All ]
— Wayne Kessler
Save the animals, kill yourself.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 15 / February 2003 [ Precursor to Atavism ]
— Eric Swenson
Mike Odoreklejek was not retarded.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 15 / February 2003 [ Public Service Announcement ]
— Laszlo Vargas
Attention chicks:
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Public Service Announcement ]
— Laszlo Vargas
What's that stink?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Public Service Announcement ]
— Laszlo Vargas
Attention People of Earth:
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 5 / April 2002 [ Starsky and Hutch, Bubblicious and the Importance of Cuffs on Your Jeans ]
— Liz Inskip-Paulk
How to “play American.”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Tales from the Country ]
— J.A. Pak
shocking and true!
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ A Test ]
— Robert Bradley
Please use only Number 2 pencils. When you make your mark, make your mark dark.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ They Shoot Movies, Don’t They? ]
— Mark Cajigao
And the loser is …
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Wallowing In Wal-Mart ]
— Mark Cajigao
To save face or to save money?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ What I Did This Summer ]
— Allison Wolcott
Stranger than fiction!
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Your Serotonin and You, Part 1 ]
— Mark Cajigao
The descent into madness
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 1 / December 2001 [ Your Serotonin and You, Part 2 ]
— Mark Cajigao
The Consultation Blues
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Your Serotonin and You, Part 3 ]
— Mark Cajigao
In the Grips of the Drug
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 ON PUBLISHING [ Carrying the Conversation ]
— Michael Kimball, Dawn Raffel
Michael Kimball Interviews Dawn Raffel
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Collaboration: North and South ]
— John Cotter, Shafer Hall
Who do you work with?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ Concerning Harold Brodkey ]
— Marcus Gray
It seems as if Harold Brodkey is already being forgotten, so let us thank Marcus Gray for reminding us of him again.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ A Dizzying, Oddball Text ]
— Steve Silkin
Just like something Borges would write, except funnier and realer.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Hell in High Heels ]
— Deirdre Day-MacLeod
Is there no greater industry than magazine publishing?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ I Took A Shower ]
— Wayne Kessler
Because sometimes not writing is the best writing
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ In the Beginning, There Was ELIMAE ]
— Deron Bauman, Michael Kimball
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ An Incredible Exactitude of Words ]
— David Barringer
A good piece to read if you can’t take criticism.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ An Interview with Dennis Cooper ]
— Marcus Gray
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ An Interview with Neal Pollack ]
— David Erlewine, Neal Pollack
The Greatest Living American Writer tells all.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ LiveJournal and the Piracy of Privacy ]
— Shya Scanlon
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 11 / October 2002 [ Michael Kimball Talks with Leigh Newman ]
— Michael Kimball, Leigh Newman
Thinking about going back to school?
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ The Perfect Story ]
— J. Tyler Blue
ideas, movements and ages
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ So You Want to Write a Technical Book? ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
Let Dariush be your guide through the fascinating and lucrative world of technical manuals.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ So You Want to Write a Technical Book? ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
The long-awaited follow-up
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ So You Wrote a Book? ]
— Michael Kimball
What next?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ Violet Smith Talks with Supervert ]
— Violet Smith
Ever wanted to become a multimedia publishing conglomerate and have sex with aliens?
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ The Way They Talked the Night Away ]
— Marcus Gray, Michael Kimball
Very entertaining, very educational and very long
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 1 / December 2001 [ Where The Words Are: An Interview with Sam Lipsyte ]
Michael Kimball Interviews Sam Lipsyte
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Xliberated ]
— David Barringer
Read this and see if you still want to do it yourself.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 15 / February 2003
FICTION [ .357 ]
— Marcus Gray
Somebody said: God is in the details. I can't remember who that was but that's not important. What's important is .357 and here it is in all its detail.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ .357 ]
— Marcus Gray
Whose personal details are these?
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ About Chalk ]
— Robert Bradley
You won’t be able to turn away.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ A Baby Bigger Grows Than Up Was ]
— Andy Devine
Did you ever wonder if there are different ways to get story out of a story?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Backseat ]
— Emily Ethridge
Everybody’s family vacation
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Being Born ]
— Rebecca Gopoian
how you were born, too
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ Belongings: Items #3, #7, #15 ]
— David Barringer
What things really think
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Birds and Snow ]
— Kathryn Rantala
There’s a little bit of Gertrude Stein in Birds and Snow and Rantala and we like that and this and her.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ The Blasphemer of Spices ]
— Leigh Newman
We don’t know if you know how wonderful Leigh Newman is. We not sure she knows it either. So we we wanted to say it out loud here so now everybody will know it.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Boxy an Star, Part 1 ]
— Daren King
Did you read Riddley Walker? This is like that, but better than that and with drugs in it and hugs in it too.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 1 / December 2001 [ Boxy an Star, Part 2 ]
— Daren King
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Boxy an Star, Part 3 ]
— Daren King
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Boxy an Star, Part 4 ]
— Daren King
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ Boxy an Star, Part 5 ]
— Daren King
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 5 / April 2002 [ Brothers ]
— John Rybicki
The Markus influence is pervasive throughout contemporary literature.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Burning Up ]
— Peter Markus
It is dark inside Peter Markus.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Catfish ]
— Shatera Davenport
How can an eighth-grader write like this and you can’t?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Cheering ]
— Srdjan Papic
how to watch a football game
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ City of Subduction and Escapement ]
— Bryson Newhart
The strange and beautiful city that we all live in
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Concerning the Work ]
— David McLendon
We’re not exactly sure what this is about. But we’re pretty sure that Mr. McLendon is sure. And that is enough for us. Also, it really made us feel something down in our gut(s).
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Courtesy of Cassiopeia ]
— Dorothee Lang
What time is it in your world?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Cut ]
— Deirdre Day-MacLeod
if only because the skin is the largest organ.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Dark Property ]
— Brian Evenson
The new and improved Cormac McCarthy
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Demolition ]
— Ian Lirenman
We are all lost.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ Departure ]
— Marc Kipniss
We’re all going to die, but probably not as beautifully as in this piece of fiction.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Disaster ]
— Rebecca Gopoian
an apocolyptic drive through sleep
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ Do Not ]
— Ian Faring
Do not experiments with read words are this fun to read
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ Domestics ]
— Diane Payne
Be thankful “I” isn’t your girlfriend.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ Drowning ]
— Lynn Kozlowski
The dangers of going with the flow
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Earthworms ]
— Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz
The earthworm teaches us hope.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ The End of the Story ]
— Rebecca Gopoian
Her mother was a bear.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ Episode 43: Incest ]
— Stephen Graham Jones
Some big fiction about a small town
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Far Gaze vs. Near ]
— Jane Unrue
Unrue will undo you.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ The Fate of the Unencumbered Object ]
— Robert Bradley
a lesson in how to wear shoes
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Fish Heads: Revisited ]
— Peter Markus
how a brother kills a fish
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Five Grim Tales ]
— Norman Lock
Aptly named and in time for Halloween.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Five Of A Kind ]
— S.G. Miller
This isn’t that pseudo-literary Sue Miller you've heard about. This is the real thing, a real writer, S.G. Miller (the “S” is for Susan). And you’re going to hear a lot more from and about her. Remember: You heard it here first.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Flight ]
— Sean Maynard
I’m afraid to fly.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ Guts ]
— Peter Markus
This is about your father, your brothers, your mud, your fish, your guts.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Hammered ]
— Bob Thurber
This one story by Bob Thurber is better than anything James Thurber ever wrote.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Handlers ]
— Deron Bauman
There's a fight going on that is literary in nature and Deron Bauman is one of the good guys. You can read why by reading Handlers, and by going to elimae.com.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ The Hole at the Bottom of the River ]
— Peter Markus
The hole truth and nothing but the hole.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ How Monster is Monster? ]
— Leigh Newman
scary good how she gets into the guts of this story
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ I Knew Joey ]
— Mitch Sobel
The Yankees win. The Yankees win.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ I Needed to Make Cuts ]
— Andy Devine
Eat your heart out, Thomas Bernhard.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ I Waited Up ]
— Ian Lirenman
The sweetest man alive exhibits his sensitivity in fiction.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ If You Were Doing Things ]
— Ken Sparling
You've heard of the Great American Novel, right? Well, Sparling did it the Canadian way. It's called Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall. Now this isn't from that. But it's pretty damn good anyway.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ In Brindisi ]
— Steve Silkin
of soldiers, girls and notes
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ In a Boat about to Drown ]
— Robert Lopez
the difference between people and boats
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ In a Room between Rooms ]
— David McLendon
the only story ever written in which “upweighted” is used as it should be used
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ Invention ]
— Rebecca Gopoian
elegant, superb, brilliant
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ It Was Spring: A Story by Rick Moody ]
— Logan Williams
better than any story Rick Moody ever wrote
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Keepers ]
— Peter Markus
If you like reading about fish half as much as Peter Markus likes writing about fish, then you'll love this story. It’s about fish.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Lady and Gentleman, in the Rain ]
— Will Eno
We know this isn't fiction or good. No, this is a play and great. Okay, okay, we confess: We love Will Eno. We think you will too.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Later in Bed ]
— Robert Bradley
Learn how to use you cock as Helen instructed.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ Lush ]
— Shya Scanlon
This is the strangest story about you that you’ve ever read.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Made Up ]
— Daren King
Everything is made up.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ The Meeting ]
— Robert Bradley
Everyone is insignificant in their own way.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Mendel’s Bathtub ]
— Derek Jenkins
A family who bathes together stays together.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ The Menstrual Season ]
— Alan Beard
the reason they always left him
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Ms. Tarlton ]
— David Erlewine
Read this or Erlewine will drive over to your house, too.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Muddy Waters ]
— Peter Markus
Boys, mud, fish, mother, father, God, fire and the river
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ My Hero ]
— Stephen Graham Jones
Super fiction about a superhero
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ My Place in My Cartoon World ]
— Edward Kim
Can you get your innocence back?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ Myla Fumé ]
— David Barringer
It’s funny and sad all at the same time.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ News of the Day ]
— Jane Hammons
No news is good news but some news is bad news.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Nuclear Pink ]
— Karl Birmelin
If you can write a better story in two sentences or less, then we’d like to read it.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ The Pack ]
— Eric Bosse
Are you ready for some football?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ Party Line ]
— Jane Hammons
Now how many words does a fiction writer need to break a fiction reader's heart? Jane Hammons didn't need many to do it to mine.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 5 / April 2002 [ Photo Album ]
— Chris Higgs
Molly, structured with photos
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Provisionally, Steve ]
— Sam Lipsyte
The subject is Steve. The writer is Sam. Go buy the book (and read it).
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Pumpkin Dreams ]
— Jon Swan
And you thought your dreams were good.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ A Real Good Guy ]
— Joseph Young
A fiction writer is never your friend.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ Red Leaves ]
— Weston Cutter
how some things get lost
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ Returning The Work ]
— David McLendon
Mr. McLendon again writes about the work. We defy you to read this but once.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ She Lowers Her Skirt ]
— Jamison Spencer
Fictional revenge about a revenge fuck.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ She Turns Her Face ]
— Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz
Who takes what from you?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ The Singing Fish ]
— Peter Markus
Fish can sing in this fiction and so does this guy Markus.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ The Singing Fish: Revisted ]
— Peter Markus
Too much of a good thing is never enough.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 7 / June 2002 [ Six Dramantics ]
— Norman Lock
a new debate about translation
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ The Size of Small Things ]
— Jamey Gallagher
how I think of you
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Spelling ]
— Emelie Griffin
This story is marked “fragile.”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Strike ]
— Tamar Ossowski
Kill him the way he wants you to.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004 [ Stupid Giants Anyway ]
— Mitch Sobel
The football season never really ends.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Sunday Services ]
— Jane Hammons
Now how many words does a fiction writer need to break a fiction reader's heart? Jane Hammons didn't need many to do it to mine.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Talent ]
— Rebecca Gopoian
How much do you have?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Tree House ]
— Darby Larson
life in a tree house
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Untitled ]
— Andy Devine
and with good reason
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ A Vestigial Interest ]
— Derek White
Read this and it might change your life.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Wasted ]
— Rebecca Gopoian
Can you hear the music playing?
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ You’ll See The Sky ]
— Ken Sparling
Learn the art of getting from paragraph to paragraph.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ You’re Not DeNiro ]
— Paul A. Toth
and you’re not Paul Toth either
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ maybe certainly ]
— Dorothee Lang
almost definitely
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 30 / May 2004
POETRY [ 1966 ]
— Steve Harris
“I dreamed of dark pines / and the distant hoot of an owl.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ 1988 ]
— Kaya Oakes
“I love you stain, creep, indignancy.”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ 74 Minute Foreign Action Film, or, A Day ]
— Nathan Parker
“we breathed silver fog”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ After You Took Me to New York City, ]
— Catherine Moran
“tiny crying wedding cakes”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Alphonso’s Packaged Lamprey ]
— M Sarki
“A loud buck of meat”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Araki ]
— M Sarki
“Her / unmentionables / departed”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Bar Nanny, Perry, Georgia ]
— Wesley Ceeley
“I always ordered pull-tab beer”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ The Body of Jeanna Wirtz Moments after Fatal Collision ]
— Nathan Jones
“barely dim as blood”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ Brother from the Old School Calls ]
— John Rybicki
“kind of apple with an east side taste”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Cinematic ]
— Anthony Robinson
“She beams a bottomless paean”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 21 / August 2003 [ Consolidating Our Status ]
— John Bryan
“we all equal in our despair / from the order we are arranged”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ Curve ]
— Kate Lutzner
“the curve of shoulder becoming neck”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Deeper ]
— Rich Furman
“lapping the mist of fasting sadness.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ Dinner in 1999 ]
— A.J. Rathbun
“that night filled with bodies / tasting habenero salsa”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ The Dog Ran. ]
— M. Boyd
“It is enough, you say, to know”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ Drive ]
— Christian Peet
“employing found items from the recycling plant”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ The Ed and Mary Poems ]
— Wesley Ceeley
“Ed taught a class About Insanity as the new Romanticism”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Empty Bed ]
— Christine Hamm
“strategies are traced on the sheets”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Flesh ]
— John Rybicki
“my yellow-haired girl, her flesh all bruised”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ For When She Wakes Up ]
— Otto Diener
“but the toothpaste is blue and gel”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Gabriel Gudding ]
— Anthony Robinson
“has set up residence in my butt.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Geese ]
— Catherine Moran
“plastic made to look bloodied”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Groundcoming ]
— John Cotter, Shafer Hall
“I chant my lonesome”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Hands ]
— Catherine Daly
“Nothing eats suns.”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ House-Sitting ]
— Catherine Moran
“It wasn’t our roof”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ I Am Mad and This Is How I Dance ]
— John Rybicki
“What a strange curse to be God”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ The Influence of Seers ]
— Alison Daniel
“How many ways are there to hypnotize the night?”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Is Here ]
— Claudia Grinnell
“It is not difficult / to accept squirrels”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Its Empty Swing ]
— Chris Young
“I’m turning a turn”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ Karen Black ]
— Wesley Ceeley
“Pigeon with pronounced limp”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Landscape of Bridge ]
— M Sarki
“There are sounds / she makes”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Letter to a Crow ]
— John Rybicki
“with the sun pissing through his coat.”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Mary Of Bethany ]
— Erin Elizabeth
“like a girl / still shy of bedclothes.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ Memoir in Five Parts ]
— Harold Bowes
“the way paint / on old construction equipment / dulls but stays”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ The Misconstruction ]
— Paula Grenside
“we wear a statue from neck to feet”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Montreal, Place d’Armes ]
— Catherine Moran
“people have many / different ways”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Mooring ]
— Paula Grenside
“She is no longer Mom”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ A Mother’s Care ]
— Paula Grenside
“I scour blued crevices of thighs”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ My World Tour with Peter Markus ]
— A.J. Rathbun
“we talked a taxi into taking us to Capri”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ The Nail through Christ’s Left Wrist ]
— Nathan Jones
“a minor apocalypse is imminent ”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ New Days of Digital Photography ]
— M Sarki
“nothing prepared me for this excellence.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Next Door Neighbors ]
— Karen Mandell
“his breath curls under the floorboards”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Noah Jones ]
— Jan Carroll
“he’s buoyed like a tossed cocoon”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ Not By A Longshot ]
— Rodney Nelson
“Tom shot someone down at Mille Lacs”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ The O of Own ]
— Jan Carroll
“Down off my stoop, my iffy wick trimmed”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ On Business for Three Days in Indiana ]
— Frank Matagrano
“a census of words never spoken aloud”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004 [ OxyContin ]
— Steve Harris
“through the butter light”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ A Personal History ]
— Joshua Edwards
“It’s not fun being with lots of people”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Plums ]
— Catherine Moran
“Stupid orbits.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Punching the Mirror ]
— David Tolkacz
“uck re”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ Rhapsody ]
— Kathryn Rantala
“a thrill in pianomonium”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 9 / August 2002 [ Rooms Without Noise ]
— Chris Young
“God will / become the empty jar”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 29 / April 2004 [ Rubber ]
— Erika Meitner
“Plan B—birth control with irony”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Seamus Heaney ]
— John Poch
“But Beowulf, my rear!”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ She Looks at the Avocado under the Shredded Carrot and Says I Know You Love Me ]
— Chris Young
“It’s February, I’m not wearing a jacket.”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Showtime ]
— Maurice Oliver
“closet hangers singing in unison”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Slippery ]
— Anthony Robinson
“triangulation makes for hasty pudding”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 21 / August 2003 [ Smoke ]
— Matt Cashen
“Parts of us peeling off”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Snow Falls Deep ]
— Anthony Easton
“there are / fresh cinnamon buns on the counter”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ So the Moon Curves ]
— Chris Young
“we’ll wake and love how foreign we are”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Some Questions about the Hawaiian Nature of My Day ]
— John Poch
“Who knew Don Ho was in the Air Force?”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Stealing Home ]
— Clay Matthews
“The air smelled of rotting pears and bones”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 28 / March 2004 [ Tavern Window ]
— Jason Lee Brown
“he didn’t understand my first poem.”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 13 / December 2002 [ This Is How We Go Far Enough Into It ]
— Chris Young
“the table’s dark leg”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Ti getto su un foglio ]
— Fabio Sabbi
“da me il tuo passaggio”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 21 / August 2003 [ The Way the Story Ends Is ]
— Matt Cashen
“Insert any sort of / tumultuous climax”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ We Need a New Mascot ]
— Jack Edwards
“last night I flushed your iguana”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Western Resolve ]
— Jeffery Bahr
“Dark and faithful to ellipsis”
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ What To Say ]
— Annalynn Hammond
“faces were an everyday occurrence”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Where Do People Go? ]
— David Siegel
“scrawling halogen cursive”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 33 / August 2004 [ Yin ]
— Harold Bowes
“Everything dried out”
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 26 / January 2004
CRITIQUE [ 2001: The Year in Music ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Our editor picks the best album releases of the year
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ 2002: The Year in Music ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Your must-haves and must-have-nots for the past year.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ 2003: The Year in Music ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Props are few and far between this year.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 27 / February 2004 [ 28 Days Later ]
— Mark Cajigao
If it only had a “Brains”
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Accusations on Nine Winter Films ]
— Wayne Kessler
The opinions of Mr. Kessler are not necessarily those of the magazine, but we enjoy them nonetheless.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Ali ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
Mann dances around his subject, but no knockout
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ An Ant's Life ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Adam Ant: Musical pioneer and royal wackjob.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ The Beauty of the Husband ]
— Francis Raven
Just what does it take to tango?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Beth Orton ]
— Wayne Kessler
Live in Philadelphia
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ Blur ]
— DJ Happy Meal
They get by with a little help from their friends.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Carrying the Body ]
— Michael Kimball
Good and true.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Chicago ]
— Mark Cajigao
As good as it gets.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ DJ Encore ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Bravo, Encore!
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys ]
— Wayne Kessler
Sister Mary Wayne explains it all for you.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Dark Property (An Affliction) ]
— Laird Hunt
Amazing life in this book of the dead
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Fantomas ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Does the second album from Mike Patton's Fantomas survive the sophomore jinx?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ The Fiction of Norman Lock ]
— David Meskin
shocking and fake!
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 31 / June 2004 [ Four Albums from the 1980s That Should Not Be Forgotten ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Respect your elders.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Goldfrapp ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Nobody escapes the siren.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 22 / September 2003 [ Groove Armada ]
— DJ Happy Meal
The Armada is back in the groove, doing the bull dance.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Hayden ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Heyday for Hayden
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 7 / June 2002 [ Heroin and Other Poems ]
— Francis Raven
The notoriety of the unnoticed
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Human League ]
— DJ Happy Meal
New old-New Wave new? Or old news?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ The Importance of Being Earnest ]
— Mark Cajigao
Earnest Goes to Camp
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Insomnia ]
— Wayne Kessler
To dream, perchance to sleep
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Kidneythieves ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Industrial waste?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Korn ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Korn's new album sounds better than it is.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Kylie Minogue ]
— DJ Happy Meal
America, hold on to your heart.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ The Leap and Other Mistakes ]
— David Meskin
All in all, a good read.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 16 / March 2003 [ Lifehouse ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Civil disobedience
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Limp Bizkit ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Durst dearth a dirth
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Linkin Park ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Falling fast and burning bright
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ The Lord of the Rings ]
— Dariush Derakhshani
What's not to like?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Massive Attack ]
— DJ Happy Meal
When being bipolar is a good thing
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Minimalist Music Reviews ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Our music critic’s quick picks of April’s new releases.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Moby ]
— DJ Happy Meal
A reflection of our times
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ The Moon is a Lighthouse ]
— David Meskin
A lot of primitive cultures worshipped the moon, and with good reason.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 31 / June 2004 [ The Mothman Prophecies ]
— Mark Cajigao
Break out the Deep-Woods Off and avoid this one.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Mr. Swenson ]
— Eric Swenson
What happens when a man writes a review of his own work?
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 14 / January 2003 [ Nine Inch Nails ]
— DJ Happy Meal
A contractually obligated album for die-hard fans.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Ocean's Eleven ]
— Mark Cajigao
Soderbergh pulls it off
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Pet Shop Boys ]
— DJ Happy Meal
No resting on their laurels for the Pet Shop Boys
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Pet Shop Boys ]
— DJ Happy Meal
The third time’s a charm.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Peter Murphy ]
— Wayne Kessler
From Bauhaus to Turkish delight
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ The Postal Service ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Give Up eventually does.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ Quarashi ]
— DJ Happy Meal
First Iceland gave us Björk, now they give us Quarashi
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Recent Compilations ]
— DJ Happy Meal
All bundled up and no place to go
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 25 / December 2003 [ Red Dragon ]
— Wayne Kessler
Do you see?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ A Review in Three Parts ]
— DJ Happy Meal
The Avalanches, a Survey and Chemical Brothers
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 3 / February 2002 [ Rob Dougan ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Furiouser and furiouser
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 23 / October 2003 [ The Royal Tenenbaums ]
— Mark Cajigao
Home is where you hang your head.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 2 / January 2002 [ Sixteen Movies You May Want to Rent If You Haven’t Seen Them Yet ]
— Andy Devine
Our unflappable listmaker suggests ideas for when you've run out of them.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 5 / April 2002 [ Spider-Man ]
— Wayne Kessler
Spider Gives Nerd the Power to Land the Girl of His Dreams
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 7 / June 2002 [ Summer Music Picks ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Also your fall music picks
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 10 / September 2002 [ The Sweetest Thing ]
— Mark Cajigao, Ralph Duke
Contrary to popular opinion
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 6 / May 2002 [ Three Compilations ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Do you feel old?
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ Time Out ]
— Wayne Kessler
The devil finds work for idle hands.
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 8 / July 2002 [ Two Reviews: ]
— Wayne Kessler
A marriage made in heaven
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 24 / November 2003 [ What I Done: My Life at Green Hills ]
— Michael Leone
From the mouths of babes
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 12 / November 2002 [ What You Should Be Listening to in July ]
— DJ Happy Meal
Just shut up and listen.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 20 / July 2003 [ The Works of Thomas Bernhard ]
— Mark Cajigao
Creator of Great Nothing
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 5 / April 2002 [ X-Ecutioners ]
— DJ Happy Meal
The execution will not be televised...
Last appeared in Volume 1 / Issue 4 / March 2002 [ X2: X-Men United ]
— Sparky Quagmire
An x-pensive x-ercise in x-crement.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 [ Yellow-Haired Girl with Spider ]
— Francis Raven
Investigating the substance of life through poetry
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ Zimble Zamble Zumble ]
— Catherine Moran
The New Bull of Meaning
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 17 / April 2003 [ [A Novel by Ken Sparling] ]
— David Meskin
The Great Canadian novel has been written.
Last appeared in Volume 3 / Issue 31 / June 2004 [ tATu ]
— DJ Happy Meal
A flash in the pan is worth two in the bush.
Last appeared in Volume 2 / Issue 18 / May 2003 | 
