Volume 4, Number 1 (1996) Short Story
Front Matter
Prefatory Note
A Note From the Editor
Mary Rohrberger
Fiction
Dragons in East Texas
Frances Hunter
Nights of Grace
Jenna Ivers
Crocodile Dreaming: An Enigma
Reg Johanson
A Range of Possibilities
Mark Johnston
A Summer Day in '73
Ronny Noor
Getting Serious
Layle Silbert
Finish Man
Ed Weyhing
Over the Hill
Jerry Wilson
Essays
The "Homely," the "Wild," and the Horror of "Mere Household Events": The Aristotelian Poe-etics of "The Black Cat."
Richard Clark
John Barth's "Petition" as a Microcosm
Terry J. Martin
Writing Degree Zero: Myth's War With History in Composite Novels of Coover, Barth, Gass, and Barthelme
Wayne B. Stengel
Reviews
Review of Elizabeth Searle's My Body to You
Cheryl Clements
Review of Daniel Lyons' The Last Good Man
Peter Donahue
Back Matter
Editors
- Editor
- Mary Rohrberger
- Associate Editor
- Joanna Leake
- Managing Editor
- Farhat Iftekharuddin
- Assistant Editors
- Angela Gonzales
- Paul Kotrodimos
- James Kurtzleben
- Fiction Editors
- Frederick Barton
- Robert F. Gish
- James Hannah
- James Knudsen
- Laurie O'Brien
- Criticism Editors
- Robert Campbell
- Rick Feddersen
- Greg Garrett
- John Hazlett
- Robert Luscher
- Susan Rochette-Crawley
- Hilary Siebert
- Book Review Editors
- Charles Dameron
- Lawrence M. Lewis
- Tim Struthers
- James White
- Participating Editors
- Rudolfo Anaya
- Ana Maria Del Rio
- John Gerlach
- Diane Glancey
- Zia Hasan
- Maurice A. Lee
- Susan Lohafer
- Charles E. May
- Kenneth Ramchand
- Advisory Board
- Shirley Ann Grau
- W. H. New
- Julio Ortega
- Ian Reid
- Austin Wright
- Cover Design
- Gregory Sterling