Doorknobs & BodyPaint
Issue Forty
Halloween/All Saints Issue
Theme: Supernatural Forces
(Guidelines for this issue)
November 2005
Flash Fiction
First Prize
Prelude to a Mystery
Andrew R. CrowNovember 2005
Hayward Fault Line
First Prize
Early Mapsco
Bev Vines-HainesNovember 2005
Dorsal
First Prize
Self-fulfilling Prophesy
Bev Vines-Haines
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Flash Fiction
The Key Bev Vines-Haines The Great Escape John D. Ritchie The Great War Joel Murray Red Dress Of Gold Abha Iyengar
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Hayward Fault Line
Outside The Walls Elizabeth Scott Red As The Great Sun Peter Harris
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Dorsal
Letters Anthony Adrian Pino Alone Janine Durbin Moonlight And Roses Barbara A. Taylor Here Kitty, Kitty Sandy Vrooman
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Cairo Room
Vamp At The Coffeehouse John A. Ward Last Smoke And Eight-Ball Kathleen Clauson The Shore Or A Love Story D. Harlan Wilson Loneliness J. Gordon
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flashback
(Dorsal winners, issues 25-39)
Friday Night, Andrew Ramer: #25, 2002
Take Me To Your Cleaners, Brenda Ross: #26, 2002
Two-Legged Piggy Bank, James Morford: #27, 2002
Sleeping With The Fishes No More, Kai Venice: #28, 2002
The Chinese Slippers, Liann Snow: #29, 2003
A Thief Like Me, John A. Ward: #30, 2003
Adventuring, E. K. Bartuska: #31, 2003
A Piece Of Faerie Tail, Sandy Vrooman: #32, 2003
Makeover, Denis Taillefer: #33, 2004
Gommorah, Val Griffiths: #34, 2004
She's Dead, Ian Wrisley: #35, 2004
Birthdays And Broken Spirits, Kathleen Clauson: #36, 2004
Twins, Kathleen Clauson: #37, 2005
Mr. Fixit's Lament, Liesl Jobson: #38, 2005
The Last Rites, John Ritchie: #39, 2005
Diane's View
Reviews: quick and delicate as a brush stroke
Selected for Issue #40, First published: November 2005
Issue #41 due on-line February 2006
Hang onto your 'knobs.
Leila Rae: editor
Bara Swain: dorsal editor
Lola Chavelak: art director
Aaron Jason: fiction editor emeritus