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Short story writer, Cindy Rosmus talks to us about hardboiled fiction and her obsession with movie villian, Christopher Lee in our latest author interview.

The Mad Editor returns with new victims and new advice. Read his latest column as he blasts the media for its coverage of the James Frey scandal.

Uptight American grammerian, Chris Thomas lodges a complaint against JCE's command of proper English in this latest installment of The Last Word.

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Devil Blossoms, issue 9 is now on sale! Featuring work by Vincent Ortega, Normal, Philip Waterhouse, Lyn Lifshin, Reid Bush, John Cantey Knight, Elizabeth Florio, Cynthia Rosmus, David Spiering,and others.

13thWR number nine is online now! New poetry and prose by P.Q. Perron, Cindy Rosmus, B.Z Niditch, Genine Hanns, John Sweet, Corey Ginsberg, David McGrath, Peter Banks and many more.

More exquisite than a corpse, Gnome is back with featured poets Arthur Gottlieb, Alan Catlin and P.Q. Perron and more edgy writing by Jeff Stuckey, David Lawrence, Rob Plath, Michael Keshigian, and others.

Featured

• Two men reunite with an old friend during the seventh game of the 2004 baseball playoffs in "Mae West and Her Clichés."
• A teacher and a young writer make a connection in "Blues for Allah."
• Ryn Gargulinski's "Judas Priest Fans" is a blast.
• D.J. Olsen shows us "The Alternative."
• JCE explores the mythic qualities of terror in the lyric essay, "Counter Magic."
• Stoyan Valev spins a melodrama about culture clash and suicide in "June, the Colonel's Youngest Daughter."
• David McGrath's "See?" tells us all we need to know about crazy Uncle Eddie.
• A road trip provides a disturbing reminder of American racism in Peter Bank's "A Hand that Picked Cotton".
• Heather Brondy waxes existential in "Natural Ways of Being."
• Small press legend, Antler, is calling all poets into service in a classic anti-war poem.
• Paul Benton wakes up next to the wrong woman on "September Eleventh".
• JCE reviews Margaret Atwood's latest The Tent and the Fasil Yitbarek's The Texture of Dreams.

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