Squatters
Issue 18, Winter 2004
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FICTION
Julia Slavin SQUATTERS
Like most squatters, a repeat offender. Once you squat, you never stop. You move store to store. Like a roach.
Tony SwoffordWILL THEY KILL YOU IN IRAQ
He is a pogue, in the rear with the gear. During peace, the pogue is the lowest life-form in the Marine Corps.
Dale PeckSKY WRITING
She burst into laughter. "Oh my God! Are folks on airplanes always this weird?"
Kathryn ChetkovichTHE HOUR OF EVERYTHING
"What if there's something else like sex," she said to him once, "some big secret somebody will pull us aside to tell us about?
Michael RedhillHUMAN ELEMENTS
Given that she was in a bikini catching frogs for the government, I felt free to say, "I'm writing poems in a rented cabin to get over a breakup."
Sigizmund KrzhizhanovskyTHE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
And so they began to live and go about their lives together, the worm and the old man.
Adam LevinFRANKENWITTGENSTEIN (SLS Winner)
"You're eighteen, now. It's about time you and your Dad had a talk about girls and technology."
Natasha Radojcic-KaneSHADES OF MANGO
Take the bad girl with you, the Aunts advise. Being under the same roof with a serious, respectable man will be constructive.
Allison GrilloPHONE SEX IN MILWAUKEE
"I'm not a transvestite or anything, but simply a crackerjack beat writer with a very feminine side."
POETRY
Stefi WeisburdKleptopoetStone Cutter's Mother Speaks
Ingar Christianson (translated by Susanna Nied)Poem of Death
Ales DebeljakStory of Master and Disciple
Monica Ferrell Alexander leaves Babylon (SLS Winner)
Terrance HayesBlue Strom
Bill MatthewsCondoms Now I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
INTERVIEWS
Ron HansenJIM SHEPARD
"Why ain't you famous kid?" the author of Mariette in Ecstasy asks his old friend, who may be on the verge with two new books coming out this year.
P. Genesius DuricaPAUL COLLINS
An obsessive delver into old books, magazines, and newspapers believes that there isn't that much new under the sun.
NEW VOICES
Poetry: Rita ChinCATERPILLARS
Fiction: Andy RoeARE YOU OK?
Naked is not good. Naked is not sexy. Naked is not, suddenly, tragically, what you want to be.
BLITHE SPIRIT
David Lehman "Mystery Novel Cocktails"
LOST & FOUND
Robert Gray on Tom Phillips appropriation of the Victorian novel, The Human Document, by W.H. Mallock
Cassandra Cleghorn on Charles Portis's True Grit
Paul Winner on Tom Drury's End of Vandalism
Ales Debeljak on Danilo Kiû
A READABLE FEAST
Christie CochrellOREGANO
THE LAST WORD
Sebastian MatthewsWATCHING HIS FATHER, THE LATE POET WILLAM MATTHEWS, TEACH
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