Issue #29
Issue #29 -Spring 2006 |
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Issue 29: a number that invites both looking back and looking forward. Twenty-nine is about transition, a turning point, a cusp. At a recent meeting of the editors, a day-long meeting where we read over and edited the whole manuscript--which at 130 pages is one of the largest we've ever published--one of us mentioned how hard it was to believe we'd undertaken this process twice a year for fourteen and a half years. Statistics like these have a way of seducing us. They invite storytelling, which is obviously what we love. This year, we recevied a plethora of good fiction, so much that we were very hard-pressed to select what to publish. Like the number 29, many of these stories are about turning points. As one writer puts it, why write about this particular moment, this particular day? Most of these stories intrinsically answer this question: a small thing--an orange peel under a bedsheet, a wandering neighbourhood cow--triggers a life-chagning experience.
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Table of Contents
Fiction
Will Pewitt Gravity Beth Davies Hunting for Herons Max Bell Dressed for the Weather June Stephanie Broughton The Seventh Day Nikki Sequeira Departure Lounge Rachel Bernstein The Radio Dance Bridget Beyer Mother Natalie Mirsky Help Alex Salmond Just Chew It Jenny Hackett Twelfth Grade Bryn Starbird Fifty-four Blair Hurley The Last Snow Day Katelynn Northam Annual Escape Michelle Morris Cow in the Yard Poetry
Miranda Bailey Atticus 1930 Valerie Jones Away Spoken Allison Goodman Untouchables: India 1974 Christine Ottmar New Year's Resolution Moral Imperative Kyra Benloulou Symmetry Should Be Writing Spanish Essay Kimbell Hall To a Little Sister Sacagawea Half Dollar Peggy Hogan Irish Boys Pantoum for a Setting Sun Nicole Tilly That White Summer Katy Harding The Last Stall in the Row Nikki Sequeira Tire Bitter Jesse Ory Envy for Green Kristina Henke Cappucino Annie Olsen Silent Affirmations Simon Sitwell Vegas Gabriel Wainio-Théberge First Raven Katie James Approaching the Situation Emily McKenzie Room to Breathe Dan Christensen Agreeing Jeremy Evans Something Breaking Josh Spiro Variations on a Theme by Billy Collins Why do mosquitoes come out before fireflies? Collette Earnest Mortalité Serenité Jessi Holler Suspension The Face in the Elevator Graham Butler Pantoum for the Royal Jubilee Hospital Michelle Morris Borscht Roshaya Rodness Last Minute Tidbits Halima O'Brien Homemade Pasta Brittany Allan Babysitters Ben Ladouceur emily, I Beds Benjamin Edgar Ladouceur and the City of Quebec Kathleen Aitkeen The way she folded the laundry: a palindrome Visual Arts
David Lang Kungfu Fighting Releap Interview
Jeremy Hanson-Finger Interview with Richard Harrison