Volume 7-

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Short Stories

Why are you so angry?
by Phil Vas
Her mother is resentful, her boyfriend subnormal. High school, well, that's just a joke. No wonder Laura hides behind a mask of indifference. Then she meets Jeff. Laid back, funny, he sees the girl behind the mask. Do they have a chance, or are they just two more victims of time and circumstance?

I Think of the Octopus
by Antonio Hopson
Author and biology teacher Antonio Hopson takes an existential walk through his neighborhood, where "murderers, liars, sex fiends and lunatics" are free to roam. During a beach walk he seeks to encounter a lonely and paranoid cephalopod but instead finds the loneliest creature of all...

Women's Clothes
by Patti Dean
Women's Clothes is a story about when two people get together and discover the packaging is everything.

Extras

1983
by Julia Gfrorer

A Sit Down with Spankstra Press
Interview with Chris Dusterhoff by Laura Severance

Illustrations by
Dale Dreiling

Cover Artist Standard Design Poetry Consoling the Cherry Tomato by Kasey Stewart The Canal by Jeb Obrian I Stumble, Dim Sum & On Getting Out Of Bed poems by Jonathan Hayes Seducing Royality by Julia Getts Kemp by Harvey Goldner The Fairy Bell Series by Jason Ashbaugh this is why I got Caller ID by Brian McGuigan I'm sorry by Brian McGuigan All Due Respect To The Ladies, A Stormy Night As The Electricity Goes Off And On, On The Way To Whitman's Grave poems by Doug Draime white hot whine of sunshine by JD Nelson Personal Essay My first time: Straight Outta Suburbia by Steve Barker

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