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Letter to Bill

by Philip Wiley

[ january 09 ]

"Tangers, a lovable old bitch. Still not winning any beauty contests but she's still got something."

Grendel

by Ed Taylor

[ december 08 ]

"The boys, their boys, Mike and Ike, Sacco and Vanzetti, something like that, too short to see, hung on his legs like the monkey babies on the Nature Channel, baring little teeth up at him."

A sympathetic reaction

by Brenda Cronin

[ november 08 ]

A short story about widowhood.

Fish mirage soup

by Nicole Borgenicht

[ november 08 ]

A short story about waiting.

Chess and liana

by Gaither Stewart

[ october 08 ]

"My life is a calvary. My only hope is to die young. I'll die from my obsessions."

The swallow-tree

by Charles Foster

[ september 08 ]

"Something big was about to happen, and the compulsion now was to celebrate rather than eat."

The Count of Montagna

by Gaither Stewart

[ september 08 ]

"My way of speaking has changed no less than I myself. "I give up," I say. "I can't return whole to what I was... if I don't speak the same language."

Eugene and his sister

by Seamus Sweeney

[ september 08 ]

"In the upper right-hand corner of each card was written a name from the annals of Scottish homicide and infamy: Deacon Brodie, Sawney Bean, Bible John, Madeleine Smith. Each card summarised the research Kay had undertaken for Mrs Flowers' latest project, the successor to Murder Most Irish and More Murder Most Irish..."