Description
Vol. 34, No. 1 and 2 (2011)
Chariton Review publishes the best in short fiction, poetry, translations, and essays in two issues each year. This international literary journal founded in 1975 by Andrew Grossbardt and edited by Jim Barnes from 1976 to 2010 and now edited by James D’Agostino.
The 2011 spring issue (No. 1) includes The Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize winner and finalists.
Contents
Vol. 34, No. 1
The Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize, 2011
Judge: Bonnie Campbell
Winner
Sarah Towers: The Outside World
Finalists
Sandra Jacobs: Valkyrie
Adam Sturtevant: Melampus
Genevieve Thurtle: The Dome
Fiction
L. A. Hoffer: What We Were Wearing
Andrew Kozma: The Year of the Stolen Bicycle Tire
Julie Rose: The Fire Queen of Bovina
Poetry
Allegra Blake
We Must Make Clearer the Issue
Orange Crush
Anxiety
Your Road Kill Epistle
After the Ice Storm
Mary Crow
Shape of the World
Jim Daniels
The Army of Lost Youths Attacks Pittsburgh
Ascending and Descending
Ashes to Ashes
Abbey’s fluorescent pink broom
Raymond Holmes
Candiru
Autumnal Disassemble
Sifting Through the Mail, I Dislocate into Anatomy
The Book of Etudes
The Indication of Right Now
David Dodd Lee
Didactic
Departures
The Challenge
Everyone is a Stranger
The Boats Come By
Billy Reynolds
Standing Under the Bleachers
The Beagle Factory in the Optative Mood
Pioneer Cemetery
The Folded Leaf
Early Evening, Early Summer
Jamie Thomas
Lost & Found
To Self-Consciousness
Cooking for One
Hard to believe
Inspiration Means Inhale
Leia Penina Wilson
i have learned to synthesize it and
and i couldn’t stay long
how a paper crane became an organic bird
and become exhausted by the visible
here
Contributors
Vol. 34, No. 2
Short Stories
Michael Fischer: Rats, Rise from the Dead!
Emily Fridlund: Catapult
Matthew Harrison: Vanishing Points
Chrissy Kolaya: Unveiling the Wild . . .
Nathan Leslie: A Direct Response
Joseph O’Malley: Too Beautiful
Geoff Pollock: The Day Teddy Roosevelt Stole My Land
Essay
Sarah Fawn Montgomery: On Names
Poetry
Deborah Burnham
The silence
Erasures: Bonnard
The Blind Children Learn to Fall
I didn’t know
Wuthering
Gone
David J. Daniels
After Hours at The Wok
To a Closeted Groom on His Wedding Day
The Nail
Feast of Ursula
Curtis’s Feast
Stuart Friebert
Einstein in Berlin
“A Single Quantum of Visible Light”
Supraoral
Marc Harshman
The Village Next Door
Eastbound Train
The Temptation
Lowell Thomas in Greenville, Ohio
Amanda Hempel
Snow Fell on the Rivers
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Flying Past Bimini
Miami Suburb
Artemisa Japanese Car Care, Miami
Kirk Pinho
Poem for Calamity
Poem for My Comatose Days
Poem for Anne’s Legs
Philip Schaefer
Hominan
River Rat
Lauren Slaughter
The Barefoot Contessa
The Barefoot Contessa Wakes Up with that Too-Full Feeling
The Barefoot Contessa Is Glad She Never Had Children
There Is Always a Woman
By What Age Should the Baby Speak Fluent Chinese
Air
Biopsy (at Chestnut Hill Hospital)
Appointment at the Fertility Clinic
Sarah, After Her Mother’s Stroke
Stefanie Wortman
Spiritual Exercises
Strip Mall
Weed Guide
The Zombie
Translations
Marcel Lecomte, Translated by K. A. Wisniewski
La nouvelle saison / New Season
Chat / Cat
Terre / Earth
Translator’s Note
Contributors