May 2013 Issue
REVIEWS Upstaged by Jacques Jouet Big Ray by Michael Kimball Miss Plastique by Lynn Levin The Cost of Living by Rob Roberge Every Possible Blue by Matthew Thorburn INTERVIEWS An Interview with Kristina...
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FLASH FICTION Bed of Roses by Danielle Allen NOVEL EXCERPTS Bullshit Rodeo by Misti Rainwater-Lites SHORT STORIES The Funeral by Darlene P. Campos The Salad by MH Rowe Strip This Down by Nini Berndt-Di...
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INTERVIEWS An Interview With Anne Champion by Kristina Marie Darling An Interview with Noah Cicero by Caleb Hildenbrandt CREATIVE NONFICTION A Case of Thirst, Annotated by Sarah Minor Every Hole Is a...
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CREATIVE NONFICTION Brooklyn Zan Boko by Bani Amor Trickster Hermeneutics by Michael Shirzadian NOVEL EXCERPTS The Cristiania Pushers’ Dog Show by Per Šmidl CAT-STEALER by Simon Jacobs EXPERIMENTAL Two...
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SHORT STORIES The White Wings of Moths by Tessa Mellas Mama’s Boy by M.E. Parker FLASH FICTION Edge of the Loch by Michelle Elvy Really by Barbara Fried An ounce of sauce hides a multitude of sins by...
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FLASH FICTION Disappearing Act by Katie Cortese Permanence by Jesse Cramer Escape Craft by Bridget Dooley With Cat by Kelly Magee and Carol Guess Halfway Home by Ian McCormick The Black Toenail...
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FLASH FICTION Monkey Eyes by Kenneth Duffy What She Saw in the Crystal Ball by Goldie Goldbloom Give by Lana Huh A Short List of Things You Wanted To Touch by Alisha Karabinus SHORT STORIES Picking Up...
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FLASH FICTION Champagne Breakfast by Catherine Chiarella Domonkos On Father’s Beard by Jody Sperling The Ventriloquist by Marcelina Vizcarra God Bless the Child by Shaun Turner NOVEL EXCERPTS...
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FLASH FICTION Relief in the Middle Sliver by William Blomstedt Jerk Feng Shui by Robert Lunday Hush Now by Suzanne Nielsen SHORT STORIES The Breakfast Table by Travis Vick CREATIVE NONFICTION The...
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FLASH FICTION Deck Story by Ken Cormier The Dismantling by Michael Credico Interview with Kipfel by Rupprecht Mayer Supercharged Folly by Z.E. Ratches The Blue Stage by Eldon Reishus Talking Ink by...
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FLASH FICTION Mark by Matt Briggs Volcanologist by Christian Hayden Hunger by Emil Ostrovski Somewhere on the Thirtieth Floor by James Reinebold SHORT STORIES Women of Ernesto by Molly Bridgeforth...
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FLASH FICTION Beach Sixty-Nine by Jennifer Chardon In the Lake by Gina DiPonio You by Lucy McKee EXPERIMENTAL impen(ding) by Vanessa Couto Johnson Tendu by Elizabeth Schmuhl CREATIVE NONFICTION Fool by...
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FLASH FICTION Encountering by Dan Corfield SCHOOL by Melissa Goodrich Compassion by Amit Majmudar Motor Magic by Steven Murray SHORT STORIES What Have You Done? by Charles Rafferty REVIEWS Kicking the...
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FLASH FICTION No Whiskey at Your Republic by Hansang Lee Haymaker by Brendan Steffen Interior Design by Alaina Symanovich SHORT STORIES Belong by Caralyn Davis Orcinus Pas de Deux by Ann Tinkham...
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FLASH FICTION Moira by Gary Moshimer Heads of the Line by Lori Schafer SHORT STORIES Leibniz by Jo Beckett-King Sheetz vs. Purple Martins by B.G. Firmani CREATIVE NONFICTION Wellsville by Louise Krug...
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FLASH FICTION On Witnessing by Tracie Renée Dawson What the Father Would Have Said by Nancy Hightower Mistralismus by Dan Reiter CREATIVE NONFICTION Terminal by Stephanie Golisch ORD by Soon Wiley...
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FLASH FICTION Fly High by Sarah Domet Returns by Patricia Ann McNair The Count by Kate Ryan SHORT STORIES Caterpillars by Jane Flett Two Weeks After My Thirty-Fifth Birthday by Claire Miye Stanford...
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FLASH FICTION Carnival Ride by Courtney Craggett Needlepoint Man by Jaimie Eubanks Because I Knew Her When She Was Still Playing That Crappy Acoustic Guitar To Covers Of Radiohead By Jenine Gail...
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FLASH FICTION The Apple Tree by Joe Lucido A Less Convenient Truth by Maggie Su The Rainforest by Dianne Turgeon Richardson SHORT STORIES The Fight: Meditationa DeLaCarnivore vs. Mme. Oxford-Picayune...
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FLASH FICTION Stork by Claudia McGarva Comfort Food by Benjamin Nutu Rosa Vieja by Timothy Schirmer SHORT STORIES Tegmine by Sally Franson Nobody Loves Mr. Iglesias by Shane Hinton INTERVIEWS An...
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FLASH FICTION Will Work 4 Food by Tasha Coryell Aliens by Eva Garber Paternity by Rupprecht Mayer Stuck by Emil Ostrovski Allure by Kenton K. Yee SHORT STORIES The Turkey Rumble by Kate Folk REVIEWS...
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FLASH FICTION The Grizzly Bear’s Cave by James R. Gapinski Dragon by Kim Magowan When a Hitman by Pete Stevens He Could Play The Clarinet by Anthony Varallo SHORT STORIES The Gospel on Giving Up by...
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FLASH FICTION I Don’t Make the Rules by Matthew Barrett Where We Off To, Lulu Bee? by Rosie Forrest Artefacts by Iryna Klishch Eight Rings by Meghan Pipe SHORT STORIES Wild Dogs and Children by Bruce...
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FLASH FICTION Tentacled by Nancy Au Recycled by Charlie Galbraith THIS VASE IS A METAPHOR FOR OUR RELATIONSHIP by Emil Ostrovski SHORT STORIES Henry, Out to Sea by Daniel Wessler Riordan Summertime by...
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FLASH FICTION The Confusion by Kate Imbach Eggnog by Adam Janos Kennardo Goes Out by Dan Kennard Real Numbers by Aaron Sommers SHORT STORIES Learn Acting for Film by Jim Meirose Piano Nights by Alicia...
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June 2015 Issue
FLASH FICTION True Places Never Are by Jennifer A. Howard SHORT STORIES Moments by Sandra Brekke Over There by Shebana Coelho Warmer, Colder by Kim Magowan Duck by Zach VandeZande EXPERIMENTAL Night...
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FLASH FICTION Brief Instructions by Paul Luikart Invisible Man Unravelling by Eldon Reishus Brandy Alexandre by Fortunato Salazar SHORT STORIES My Daddy Said . . . by Jill Adams Quantum Suicide by...
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INTERVIEWS An Interview With Chloe Caldwell by Scott McClanahan REVIEWS Shift by Alyse Bensel The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn FLASH FICTION This Much I Know by Shebana Coelho Shisha...
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INTERVIEWS An Interview With Richard Froude by Neelanjana Banerjee An Interview With Kevin Keating by David Hoenigman An Interview With Cooper Renner by Nicolle Elizabeth and Kevin O’Cuinn FLASH...
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INTERVIEWS An Interview With Alex Grecian by MaryAnne Kolton An Interview With Thomas E. Kennedy by Timmy Waldron REVIEWS The Alligators of Abraham by Robert Kloss FLASH FICTION Deathday and the Next...
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INTERVIEWS An Interview With Rick Rofihe by Nicolle Elizabeth An Interview With Nico Vassilakis by David Hoenigman REVIEWS My Pet Serial Killer by Michael J. Seidlinger Monogamy Songs by Gregory Sherl...
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REVIEWS David Foster Wallace was Wrong: Why John Updike Mattered and Always Will by Art Edwards FLASH FICTION A New Space by Caitlin Barasch Toll by Colleen Kiely CREATIVE NONFICTION The State of...
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FLASH FICTION For Art’s Sake by Carol Deminski Patient Confidentiality by Emily Franklin Foundations by David Mohan In the Time It Takes Me to Forget You My Hair Will Grow Back to the Way You Like It...
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FLASH FICTION What We Return by Gabriela Frank The Feast of Almost by Marc Grey No One Here Knows a Damn Thing About Birds by Chuck Strangward SHORT STORIES This Is New Jersey by Linda Carela In the...
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REVIEWS The Last Repatriate by Matthew Salesses The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail by Gregory Sherl Growing up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones FLASH FICTION Driving Neutral by Joseph Han At...
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INTERVIEWS An Interview With Matt Bell and Jac Jemc REVIEWS Shock and Awe by Ethan Rafal FLASH FICTION Blood a Cold Blue by James Claffey On The Line by Lee Wright CREATIVE NONFICTION My Hour Was Up by...
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FLASH FICTION Whiskey to Denim by Carly Berg The Second Time I Met Ellie’s Dad by Sean Lovelace King of the Zombies by Richard Peabody A Dictionary of Devotions by Marianne Villanueva Woo-Kyung-Valerie...
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September 2015 Issue
FLASH FICTION Hello in There by Sean Gill Riding the Minute Hand by John Goulet Amor Fati by Connie Guo Take Me Home by Efren Hernandez The Wicked, Like Smoke by Maria Pinto SHORT STORIES The Husband...
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FLASH FICTION Not A Cupid by Molly Giles Choice Cuts by Genevieve Mathis Ballad of Lefty by Leah Rogin-Roper Gone for the Night by Sophia Wiltrout SHORT STORIES The Search for Boyle by Darrin Doyle It...
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FLASH FICTION What We Cannot Change by Alexander Cendrowski Talking Through the Lobster by Amanda Chiado Undergrounds by Deirdre Hines in such perilous circumstance by Timston Johnston The One That Got...
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FLASH FICTION What We by Vanessa Cuti Snow Cranes by Kenneth Duffy A Guide to Wioskasłomy by David Galef Bike Heaven by Steven Grassel The Rise and Fall of Reme by Andrew Gretes Hanged Man by Amit...
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FLASH FICTION Flirting by Kate Gies Le Témoin by Kathleen Rooney Three Ways to Eat Quince by Michelle Ross Oater, With Air Conditioning by Tyler Stoddard Smith SHORT STORIES Talk, Talk by Edward Mc...
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REVIEW Meaty by Samantha Irby EXPERIMENTAL Field Notes: Linguistics by Joelle A. Chassé Brown by D. E. Steward Arguing With Myself Over Sushi by jeff taylor FLASH FICTION The Second-to-Last Supper by...
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REVIEW Everything is Conditional Love Poems by Donavon Davidson EXPERIMENTAL Some Questions for Our Future Robot Sex Partners by Andrew Cartwright FLASH FICTION Feel This Way by Charles Heiner Wil E....
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REVIEW I’m From Electric Peak by Bud Smith EXPERIMENTAL Three Prose Poems by Michael Chin FLASH FICTION And The Wind Blew In Laura by Sarah Arantza Amador Above Rubies by Dawn Davies Then Go To Paris,...
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REVIEW Balancing Acts, New & Collected Poems 1993 – 2015 by Yahia Lababidi The Secret Correspondence of Loon & Fiasco by Carlo Matos INTERVIEW Laura Elrick’s Propagation: A Conversation Between...
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FLASH FICTION The Equestrian by Cal Freeman Freckles by Betsy Jemas Thick-Boned by Rebecca Ann Jordan Contortion, Distortion by Christina Sun SHORT STORIES The Takeover by Nick Sansone The Fortunate...
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REVIEWS Sometimes You Just Don’t Want To Know and The Artistic Life by Mark SaFranko The Wave by Lochlan Bloom FLASH FICTION The Stevie Wonder Apology Tour by Anthony Inverso After The Revolution by...
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REVIEWS Literary Today through the Lens of Freeman’s Arrival by K. D. Rose Problems by Jade Sharma EXPERIMENTAL The Last Will and Testament of Allen Kenneth Hall by Adam Bjelland Loyalty by Peter...
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This will be the last issue of Word Riot for at least six months as we take a hiatus. After 14 years steering this righteous beast, I’m tapped out and ready to pass the torch. Kevin O’Cuinn will...
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