Doorknobs & BodyPaint
Issue Fifty-Four
The Work Issue
(Guidelines for this issue)
May 2009
Doorknobs
First Prize
Dearest, I Am Going Mad Again
Joyce Daniels
May 2009
Hayward Fault Line
First Prize
Walking Tall
Bev Vines-Haines
May 2009
Dorsal
First Prize
Speed Dating
Jennifer Stakes
May 2009
Tapas
First Prize
Waste
Dianne McKnight
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Doorknobs
Earthbound Limit joanne Faries Swan Song Bev Vines-Haines You Ain't Real, Lady Martin Reed All On the One Telly Oonah V. Joslin
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Hayward Fault Line
Immurement C.A. Young
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Dorsal
The Frailty of Blood Angel Zapata Golf Gigolo Joanne Faries Wisdom Bev Vines-Haines David John A. Ward Decorative Dinnerware Ella Blackhart Breach In The Code Grant Lahaie Shoot! John Ritchie
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Tapas
Happy Nights Joanne Faries Disclosure Marjorie Carlson Davis Retribution Jeanette Cheezum Cheebee Edith Stitt
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Cairo Room
Faces Behind Him J.B. Mulligan Just Trying to Clear My Name Tom Sullivan
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flashback
(Flash Fiction winners, issues 1-50)
It's A Baby, It's a Life, God Made it, Don't Do It, Ann Marie Davis: #1, 1993
Smitty, Rich Adams: #2, 1994
Wild Life, Chris Kammler: #3, 1995
Guinevere, Rich Adams: #4, 1996
Stigmata, Don deBoisblanc: #5, 1996
Serpent, Neil Shephard: #6, 1997
Sarah On Paper, Dedan-Jah Jonker: #7, 1997
Malled To Death, Nita Van Cleave: #8, 1997
The Tradgedy Of Julius Orange, Trent M. Walters: #9, 1998
Post Pedicure Philosophy, A. Pinar Saygin: #10, 1998
Resolve, Andrew R. Crow: #11, 1998
American Pie, Andrew R. Crow: #12, 1998
Alien Love, Kelly A. Brennan: #13, 1999
Service, K. Teryl Geenty: #14, 1999
One Night, Vida Janulaitis: #15, 1999
Hysteria, Monica Vaughan: #16, 1999
The Coiff-Off, Sandy Steinman: #17, 2000
Processing, Mark Sanford: #18, 2000
Fleming, Berend ter Borg: #19, 2000
Top Hat, Alice Landis: #20, 2000
She Laughed, Ron Morelli: #21, 2001
Angel Of Angles, Ugur Halici: #22, 2001
Resurrections, John Hayes: #23, 2001
Freak Ocurrence, Diane Dees Tobiason: #24, 2001
Love Story, Francine Witte: #25, 2002
Skirt Check, Kate Anger: #26, 2002
On The Eve . . ., Ron Morelli: #27, 2002
Of Fame Or Fortune, Rich Pearl: #28, 2002
Freweini And Akbeh, Elen Gebreab: #29, 2003
When I Learned To Fly, Mark Tate: #30, 2003
Heavy, Ron Morelli: #31, 2003
Salmon Run, Ian Wrisley: #32, 2003
1909, Francine Witte: #33, 2004
Junks And Sushi, Ben Woodiwiss: #34, 2004
Started By A Sudden Change, Dianne McKnight : #35, 2004
Heteros, Maggie Shurtleff: #36, 2004
Fleeting Memories, Denis Taillefer: #37, 2005
Cursum Perfecio, Val Griffiths: #38, 2005
1871, Mark Tate: #39, 2005
Prelude To A Mystery, Andrew R. Crow: #40, 2005
Smoking A Roach , Bev Vines-Haines: #41, 2006
Metamorphosis, Andrew R. Crow: #42, 2006
Paprika, Marjorie Carlson Davis: #43, 2006
Rememberance, John Ritchie: #44, 2006
Identity, Abha Iyengar: #45, 2007
Safe Harbor, Judy Cabito: #46, 2007
Panthera tigris balica, Marjorie Carlson Davis: #47, 2007
A Swig of Mystery, Joane Faries: #48, 2007
From Humble Beginnings, Ann Summerville: #49, 2008
Darling Marie, Val Griffiths: #50, 2008
(Dorsal winners, issues 25-50)
Snow, Ian Wrisley: #49, 2008
(Hayward Fault Line winners, issues 25-50)
Drinking From The Well Of God, Trent M. Walters: #7, 1997
Johnson, Lester L. Weil: #8, 1997
Final Silence, Lester L. Weil: #9, 1998
Two's Company, Martin Jackson: #10, 1998
Che Bella Donna, Suzanne Ferry Chesson: #11, 1998
The Millennium Rain, Alice Whittenburg: #12, 1998
Ashes, Christine Harris: #13, 1999
Mole City, Vida Janulaitis: #14, 1999
Cut-Off, Bryan W. Jones: #15, 1999
Sicilian Haj, Derek H. Crane: #16, 1999
One Thousand Tales And A Tale And A Half, Kieron Devlin: #17, 2000
Certainty, Natalie Niblack: #18, 2000
Forgotten Fragments, Vida Janulaitis: #19, 2000
Crossroad, Cody Maxwell: #20, 2000
First Fruits, Mary M. Munro: #21, 2001
That Which We Hold At A Distance, Anthony Shull: #22, 2001
Salt, Norman Szabo: #23, 2001
Darkness And Fear, J. Zachary: #24, 2001
Buddy, Jordan Rosenfeld: #25, 2002
The Firecracker Festival Of San Vincente, Steve Rodriguez: #26, 2002
Drowning Deeds, Racheline Maltese: #27, 2002
Hallowed Hall, Jennifer Maslowski: #28, 2002
Sam Clemens Rides A Riverboat At The South Pole, Andrew R. Crow: #29, 2003
Toiling In America, Bev Vines-Haines: #30, 2003
Gram's Shawl, E. K. Bartuska: #31, 2003
How To Shun Abraham, Guillaume Cingal: #33, 2004
Come Uppance, Bev Vines Haines: #49, 2008
Diane's View
Reviews: quick and delicate as a brush stroke
Selected for Issue #54, First published: May 2009
Issue #55 due on-line August 2009
Hang onto your 'knobs.
Leila Rae: editor
Bara Swain: dorsal editor
Lola Chavelak: art director
Aaron Jason: fiction editor emeritus