Poetry

"Camp Ta Ta Pochen" by Robert McDowell
"Manifest" by Gerard Wozek
"First Trimester" by Tami Haaland
"Fleurs du Mall" by Stephen Pain
"Composite Family" by Maria Claire Leng
"Loving in the Morning" by Dave Gitomer
"Kissing Sluts" by Erin Bealmear

Macro-Fiction

"Love Birds" by Mimi Carmen
"Democritus' Atom" by Richard K. Weems

Micro-Fiction

"Into Scent" by Maria Claire Leng
"The Man in the Cafe" by Jeff Barker
"The Price of Longing" by Yedidah Glass

Interviews

Ryan Boudinot talks with Aimee Bender, author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt about writing, the Whitehouse, and amputation.

Stranger Than Fiction

"Honesty Says God is a Masturbator" -  Stefene Russell explores Summan, Utah's second religion, an organization based upon the spiritual concepts of meditation, mummification, and divine sex.

Book Lovers

James Hall reviews Mark Doty's Sweet Machine, the author's latest collection of poetry, and is filled with an overwhelming urge to shop.

Sound Bites

Music Reviews by Jill Hill & Carey Potash  with 
Handel's Water Music,
Jimmie Dale Gilmore's After Awhile,
Joni Mitchell's Taming the Tiger,
Elliot Smith's XO,
and Remy Zero's Villa Elaine.

Remote Control

Nick Burton Examines Sex in Cinema, is seduced by Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour, is sickened by Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, feels the powerful undertones of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Black Narcissus and Nagisa Oshima's In The Realm of the Senses, and wonders what the director was smoking when F.X. Pope's hardcore porn flick Nightdreams was made. We've also included a reprint of Richard Luck's review of Jean-Jacques Beineix's erotic classic Betty Blue.

Zine Reviews

Kimberly Villalba Wright summons the courage to visit Nerve, takes a walk on the frilly side at Riotgrrl, and loses her will to reproduce while reading Scarlet Letters.

Last Word

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