Keyhole Magazine - Issue 4, Summer 2008

CONTENTS
Michelle Orange
Fear Self

Jessica Hollander
Fantasy Land

Eugene Gloria
James “Willie” Brown (The Early Years)
Safeway
The Brightness
*Interview*
Jason Huskey
A Roll in the Hay
Crux of Habit
Under the Rotor’s Whir
Slick Day’s Sunset
Jason Jordan
My Better Half
T.J. Forrester
Random
Jon Gingerich
The Migration Patterns of Insects

Noel Sloboda
[FICTION]
Opacity

Honest Self-Assessment
Mouthful
Pet Project
Scaled
Jeff Wallace
Slate

Ilan Mochari
A Loss to the Stuffed Animal Kingdom
Kevin Wilson
Steak and Eggs, Cow and Chicken
Karen Neuberg
The Entire History of Your Fires
The Bird
What Returns Won't

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS

T.J. FORRESTER's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Emerson Review, Harpur Palate, Ink Pot, The MacGuffin, The Mississippi Review, Night Train, and Storyglossia, among others. He's had several stories nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is working on a novel-in-stories about sex and murder on the Appalachian Trail. He is the editor of Five Star Literary Stories.

JON GINGERICH lives in New York and is Editor of O'Dwyer's magazine. He previously wrote for a daily newspaper in Columbus, Ohio and was also Publisher of a line of comic books. He can be reached at jonmgingerich@gmail.com. He has a news blog that he updates daily, www.theownersmanual.org.

EUGENE GLORIA is the author of two books of poems Hoodlum Birds and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, which was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and the 2001 Asian American Literary Award. He is an associate professor of English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

JESSICA HOLLANDER (www.jessicahollanderwriter.com) is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Alabama. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2004 with a BA in English and Literature, and in 2006 received a United Arts Regional Artist Grant for her writing in North Carolina. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Emerson Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, and Barrelhouse, among others.

JASON HUSKEY holds a B.A. in English Literature. His work has appeared in 34thParallel, Perigee: Publication for the Arts, Red River Review, and Word Riot, and is forthcoming in Aoife's Kiss. He currently resides in central Virginia.

JASON JORDAN is a writer from New Albany, Indiana, who always says he's from Louisville, Kentucky, because people actually know where that is. His fiction has appeared in The2ndHand, Hobart, Pequin, Pindeldyboz, VerbSap, Word Riot, and many other publications. Jordan is also Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine decomP. He is currently in the MFA program at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is working on his first novel. You can visit him online at poweringthedevilscircus.blogspot.com.

ILAN MOCHARI (www.ilanmochari.com) is a novelist and journalist living in the Boston area. His short story, "The Father I Knew (and Still Do)," was a finalist in Glimmer Train's 2007 Family Matters competition, and his erotica has been published by Ruthie's Club and Oysters & Chocolate.

KAREN NEUBERG's work is published or forthcoming in 42Opus, Poems Niederngasse, Barrow Street, and Free Verse, among others. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee and holds and MFA from the New School. She and her husband live in Brooklyn, NY and West Hurley, NY. She is an assistant editor of Inertia Magazine.

MICHELLE ORANGE is the author of The Sicily Papers and the editor of From the Notebooks: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a collection found in issue 22 of McSweeney's. She lives in Brooklyn and is at work on a travel book about the history and future of the family name.

NOEL SLOBODA currently lives in Pennsylvania, where he serves as dramaturg for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival and teaches at Penn State York. His poetry has appeared in a number of places, including Chronogram, Waterways, BLOW, Cape Rock, Blue Earth Review, Ghoti, Free Verse, erbacce, and The Ottawa Arts Review.

JEFF WALLACE received his MFA in fiction from Indiana University. He currently lives with his wife and dog in Lexington, Kentucky, where he teaches writing, literature, and works as a baker.

KEVIN WILSON was born, raised, and still lives in Tennessee. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. A collection of short stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, is forthcoming in 2009 from Ecco/HarperCollins.