Fiction Commons^™

Spring 2024

The Alembic

The Alembic - Spring 2024. 143 pages including covers and advertisements.

Table of Contents

Editors’ Note, vii

Poetry

S. Yarberry

Catherine’s Poem, 3

Looking at Robert Blake, 4

The Tyger , 6

Ethan Cunningham

Woman Under Water, 7

William Heath

A Bar in Santa Cruz, 8

In Asturias, 9

Joan Barker

Hometown, 10

Ella Bloom

Loneliness, 12

The Fog/A Lighthouse, 14

Found, 16

Tom McFadden

Where the Light May End, 17

If It Were Spring, 18

Bruce McRae

Daydreamers, 20

Does Your Dog Bite?, 21

A Strained Affair, 22

Erin Bolger

19 reasons, 23

Richard Dinges

Thunder, 24

Mulberry Trees …

Spring 2023

The Alembic

The Alembic - Spring 2023. 142 pages including covers and advertisements.

Table of Contents

Fiction and Poetry

• Bibars, Sofia, The Glittery Bits In Our Home, 11
• Christiansen, Celine, A Good Man's Grave, 23
• Clarke, Fiona, By The River Of Babylon, 38
• Dinges, Richard, Conductor, 39
• Dinges, Richard, Grim Reaper, 40
• Dinges, Richard, Raising, 41
• Ellis, Mark, A Lady Names Sorrows Bloom, 42
• Flores, Mariela, My Name, 43
• Flores, Mariela, Five Ways To Look At Hands, 45
• Flores, Mariela, Hardest Thing Is To Say Goodbye, 47
• Flores, Mariela, Trash Day, …

Demigods And Gender Roles: Non-Heteronormative Gender Expressions And The Works Of Rick Riordan, Lee M. Witkowski

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Gender serves as a powerful ideology to systematically oppress minorities, such as women and people within the LGBTQ+ community. This ideology is learned at a young age through media such as fantasy literature. By analyzing several fantasy texts through a lens of gender politics, I track the history of gender in the fantasy genre and posit that inclusive works such as those of Rick Riordan influence children and adolescents to become more accepting of sexual and gender minorities.

Spring 2016

The Alembic

Spring 2016. Full issue, 133 pages in total including front matter & table of contents.

Table of Contents:

• Levy, Jeffrey, A Story to Tell, 1
• Durbin, Branan, Namesake, 2
• Durbin, Branan, Hannah, 4
• Durbin, Branan, Zoraida, 5
• Price, Devyn, The Surly Bonds of Earth, 7
• Perchik, Simon, *, 17
• Moglia, Greg, Three Steps, 18
• Moglia, Greg, Try to Get Away, 19
• Moglia, Greg, Commander, 20
• Wright, Ben, 1000 Tea & Topology, 21
• Wright, Ben, Herstein & More Caffeine, 22
• Wright, Ben, Irrational Pi, 23
• Wright, Ben, Bullet from …

Don't Tell My Mother, But..., Macie St. Jacques

Honors Projects

An Honors Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in the Department of English.

Spring 2015

The Alembic

2015. Full issue, 193 pages in total including frontmatter & table of contents.

Table of Contents:

FICTION

• Barefoot Princesses, Jennifer Cyr, 4
• My GPS, My Love, Walter B. Levis, 19
• Rejection, Sten Spinella, 28
• Kamaloca, Stephen Jarrett, 47
• Blinded by the Sight, Diana Vlavianos, 74
• Choice, Blake Kilgore, 102
• Four-and-a-Half Feet, Neal Mercier, 121
• The Village, Collin Anderson, 133
• Purple Petunias, Lee Varon, 159

POETRY

• Simic, Guy Thorvaldsen, 1
• Nomad, Catharine Lucas, 2
• Eileen Marú, Matt Gillick, 3
• Beams, Laurie Patton, 10
• Home is a Human Being …

Volume 27, Number 3 - February 1949

The Alembic

Volume 27, Number 3 - February 1949. 78 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Editorial"
• "Exchange"
• Daley, James T., Jr., "Miller's Reputation"
• Eagle, George L., "Embers In The Mist"
• Plummer, William H., "The Critic"
• Brott, Clifford J., "A Pastoral Meditation"
• Vayo, Harold E., "One Autumn Afternoon"
• Vayo, Harold E., "Winter Scene"
• Wooley, Charles F., "Kaleidoscope"
• Vayo, Harold E., "A Passing Thought"
• Henry, Wales B., "Meditation After Reading Dorothy Parker"
• Plummer, William H., "To A Meadowlark"
• Honnen, William, "Thirty Pieces of Silver"
• Henry, Wales B., "Unrequited Love"
• Henry, Wales B., "Idee Fixe"
• Eagle, George L., "Morning Classes"
• Vayo, Harold E., "I Wonder" …

Volume 27, Number 2 - December 1948

The Alembic

Volume 27, Number 2 - December 1948. 90 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Editorial"

• Doherty, Robert E., "Editors Also Know Despair"

• Brott, Clifford J., "Reunion"
• Boning, Thomas H., "66th Street, East of Broadway"
• Henry, Wales B., "Timpani in Tom-Toms"
• Geffroy, Guy, "The Way A Friend Would"
• Honnen, William, "Rue De Bom Jesus"
• Wooley, Charles F., "The Concrete Jungle"
• Brott, Clifford J., "Reverie"
• Beausoleil, Norman D., "Evolution of French Literature"
• Lynch, John J., "Gross Negligence"
• Henry, Wales B., "Five and Twenty Years Ago"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "Sonnet to Beauty"
• Eagle, George L., The Felon"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "One Rose"
• Marino, L. …

Volume 27, Number 1 - October 1948

The Alembic

Volume 27, Number 1 - October 1948. 58 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Paolino, Daniel, "Not I, Lord"
• Scungio, Raymond, "Rain in Trinidad"
• Doherty, Robert, "Adventures of Blunderjohn"
• Cochran, George, "Day Coach"
• Brott, Clifford, "Short Essays"
• Cruz, Valentine, "On F.E.P.C."
• Cochran, George, "Windsong"
• Kirtland, Robert, "St. Thomas Aquinas"
• Fleck, Richard L., "Resurrection"
• Henry, Wales B., "Clouds"
• Fitz Simmons, E. P., "Simplicity"
• Henry, Wales B., "Soap"
• Doherty, Robert, "On Gertrude Stein"

Volume 26, Number 3 - March 1948

The Alembic

Volume 26, Number 3 - March 1948. 105 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Alembiscope"

• Eagle, George, "Another Vintage"

• Brott, Clifford J., "Those Tender Years"

• Kurguz, Peter William, "A Students Prayer"

• Meagher, Francis T., "History's Lesson"

• Lynch, John J., "Modern Trends"

• Henry, Wales B., "The Dim Red Glow"

• "$64 Question"

• Cochran, Hunter George, "Modern Poetry and the New Slavery"

• Doherty, Robert E., "Memoirs From Bedlam"

• Weir, Fantasy, "Illustration"

• Scungio, Raymond, "Things Are Really Racy In Rio"

• "Football and the Friars"

• Eagle, George L., "Hearse-Verse"

• Doherty, Robert E., "From Europe About the Marshall Plan"

Volume 26, Number 2 - January 1948

The Alembic

Volume 26, Number 2 – January 1948. 71 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Editorial
• Poutray, A.R. "Three for a Dime"
• Cochran, George Hunter "To St. John of the Cross"
• O'Brien, John J. "Design for Intellectuals"
• Doherty, Robert E. "Austrian Interlude"
• Eagle, George "How Far We've Come!"
• Henry, Wales B. "The Twelve Steps"
• Scungio, Raymond "The Commander's Husband"
• Knickerbocker, Jr., M.R. "The Catholic Novel: Its Problems"

Volume 26, Number 1 - November 1947

The Alembic

Volume 26, Number 1 - November 1947. 71 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Editorial"
• Henry, Wales B., "The Uncertain Mind"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "Man To His Soul"
• D'Ambrosio, Raymond, "Turret and Tree"
• Goulet, Norman, "Social Justice"
• Doherty, Robert E., "Resume"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "Infinitus"
• Deasy, John, "Looking Down The Years"
• Boning, Thomas, "Tears"
• Fitz Simmons, Edward P., "The Village Art Show"
• Eagle, George, "Peculiar Company"

Volume 25, Number 1 - February 1947

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 1 – February 1947. 58 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Editorial
• Doherty, R.E. "The Beast"
• O'Brien, John J. "On Coffee"
• Eagle, George L. "A Stranger in Strasbourg"
• Shanley, Joseph V. "Reflections"
• Doherty, R.E. "Thoughts on New York"
• Gnys, Edward L. "Chaos"
• Morrison, Coleman "On Floorwalkers"
• Eagle, George L. "Moment of Vision"
• Deasy, John "Living History"
• Fortin, Andrew G. "Effects of Studying the Essayists"
• Critique

Volume 25, Number 3 - March 1943

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 3 - March 1943. 49 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Stafford, John, "Frustration"

• Davitt, John H., "Among The Missing"

• "War And Nutrition"

• Weintraub, Jerome Irving, "A Study Of Sir John Falstaff"

• Fournier, Conrad A., "Come Follow Me"

• Carroll, Jr., Walter F., "Auntie's Favorite"

• Buckley, John F., "Isaac Hecker And Brook Farm"

• "Reveille"

• "Divertissement"

Volume 25, Number 2 - December 1942

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 2 - December 1942. 54 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Fingers In The Pi"

• Lee, Edward A., "In God We Trust"

• Gorman, Jeffrey, "On Etiquette"

• Davitt, John H., "Before The Wave"

• Stadnicki, Francis A., "Saroyanism And Surrealism"

• Shiel, James F., "Rauschning Has The Answer"

• Fournier, Conrad, "Check--$50,000"

• O'Shea, Joseph C., "Blueprints For A Just Peace"

• "By The Way"

Volume 25, Number 1 - October 1942

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 1 - October 1942. 58 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "New Fingers in the Pi"
• Hughes, Riley, "A Catholic College and War"
• Gerhard, John, "The Father"
• Kelly, Matthew "Fast Freight"
• Kenny, Joseph, "Revolution in the Making"
• Holleran, Thomas, "Journey to Scotland"
• Kiernan, Leo, "Cancer Research"
• Fay, Michael, "We Shall Meet Again"
• Gerhard, John, "By the Way"

Volume 24, Number 4 - Summer 1942

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 4 – Summer 1942. 55 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Kenny, Joseph "A Woman of Letters"
• Rosen, Louis "The Gazette Goes to Press"
• Gerhard, John "When the War is Over"
• Young, Peter "Need Money?"
• Shiel, James "Alembichords"
• Gerhard, John "The Truck"
• Sherman, James "Conquistador"
• Gorman, Jeffrey "On Late-Comers"
• Sharkey, John "St. Georgie and the Dragon"
• "By the Way'

Volume 24, Number 3 - March 1942

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 3 – March 1942. 49 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Cavanaugh, Paul "Captain Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N."
• "New Fingers in the Pi"
• Mulligan, Thomas "Writing for the Alembic"
• F.M., Extension School "God Bless Them"
• Bracq, Edward "'Liberal Education'"
• McCormick, William "Certitude"
• Young, Kenneth "The Chinese Language"
• Murphy, James J. "In the Land of the Shamrocks"
• O'Shea, Joseph "The New Fleet"
• Maguire, Frank "Alembichords"
• Rosen, Louis S. "Futility"
• "The Enchanting Young Ghost"
• Shiel, James "By the Way"

Volume 24, Number 2 - December 1941

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 2 - December 1941. 62 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Dedication"

• Sharkey, John S., "Poets At Sea"

• Shiel, James F., "Keating and the Four Masters"

• Hickey, Vincent J., "The House of Rurik"

• McWeeney, Leo, "The Hero of the Russian Peasants"

• Gill, James, "The Political Police of the Soviet Union"

• McCool, Edward, "Peter the Great"

• Kaminski, Robert, "The Soviet Press"

• Krupowicz, Z.A., "Some of Russia's Leaders and Governments"

• Greenstein, Maurice, "Stalin"

• Garber, Martin, "Social Life in Russian Farm Communes"

• Gennaro, Anthony, "Social Conditions of Russia"

• Maddren, Herbert, "Russian Language and Literature"

• Mulligan, Thomas, "Damon Runyon At College"

• "Alembichords" …

Volume 24, Number 1 - October 1941

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 1 - October 1941. 49 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Dedication"

• "New Fingers In The Pi"

• Gerhard, John, "Defence Efficiency"

• Whalen, Jr., Frank J., "A Few Minutes Of Rest"

• Gerhard, John, "Brains"

• Cottam, Charles F., "Strawberry Love Song"

• Sharkey, John, "On First Looking Into Newspaper Rumor"

• Doyle, Thomas J., "Her Majesty The Cook"

• J. A. C., "Alembichords"

• "By The Way"

Volume 23, Number 4 - May 1941

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 4 – May 1941. 66 pages including covers and advertisements. (Only 36 pages available in archival copy.)

• The Quality of Decorum
• Conway, Joseph A. "For the Fatherland"
• Rich, Harold "End of a Visit"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "How Long, O Lord?"
• Murphy, James J. "Holy Man of Dublin"
• J.A.C. "Records and Discords"
• Greene, John "Thought"
• Maguire, F.J. "In Quest of Arcady"
• Jodaitis, Annie T. of the Extension School "Women's Posiition in the Early Social World"
• "By the Way'

Volume 23, Number 3 - March 1941

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 3 – March 1941. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Editorial
• Kaylor, Edward "The Rivals"
• Williams, Jr., Ira T. "Fool's Folly"
• J.A.C. "Records and Wrecked Chords"
• Sweeney, Charles E. "Children of the Sun"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "The Master"
• "By the Way"

Volume 23, Number 2 - December 1940

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 2 – December 1940. 64 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Dedication
• Perrotta O.P., Rev. Paul C. "The Soul's Lasting Armistice with Christ"
• Murphy, James J. "Queen at the Crib"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "A Bow-Legged Saint"
• Sharkey, J. "The Hunt"
• Murphy, Leo "The Hill"
• Conway, J.A. "On Not Having Seen the World's Fair"
• Smith, Raymond C. "A Child's Christmas"
• Whalen, Frank J. "Jim Scares Me No Longer"
• Mulligan, Thomas A. "Go to the Office"
• McGovern, Charles "A Footnote to History"
• Williams, Jr., Ira T. "The Still of the Night"
• "By the Way'

Volume 23, Number 1 - October 1940

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 1 - October 1940. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Traumwelt"

• Sweeney, Charles E., "Men Against A Tide"

• Rosen, Louis, "Fantasy At Night"

• Gallagher, Matthew P., "The Kettle"

• Maguire, Francis J., "Excuse Please"

• Conway, J.A., "The Wines of Germany"

• Falcas, John M., "To Prince Henry The Navigator"

• Williams, Jr., Ira T., "Lest We Forget"

• Anonymous, "Home of the Brave"

• "By The Way"

Volume 22, Number 4 - May 1940

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 4 - May 1940. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Jalbert, Russell R., "Fyodor Dostoievsky"

• O'Connell, James, "Escape"

• Mulligan, Thomas A., "Reward"

• Whalen, Jr., Frank J., "Monday to Monday"

• Napolitano, Ralph, "The Good That Men Do"

• Smith, Raymond C., "Shakespeare On Sleep"

• Hayes, J.T., "Lifter, Love and Butterflies"

• Conway, Joseph A., "The Old Harrington House"

Volume 22, Number 3 - March 1940

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 3 – March 1940. 67 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Gallagher, Matthew P. "Only the Valiant"
• Rosen, Louis "King O' Old Time Fiddlers"
• Landry, Lionel J. "A Man of His Times"
• Kaylor, Edward "Vignette"
• Conway, Joseph A. "Traumerei"
• Bowen, George "Stand-Up"
• McGovern, Charles "The Earth and the Stars"
• Ryan, Mark John "Catholic Action and the Catholic Collegian"

Volume 22, Number 2 - December 1939 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue)

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 2 – December 1939. Twentieth Anniversary Issue. 63 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Foreword
• Editorial
• LaCroix, John "Christmas Bells"
• Healey, Robert C. "Eroica"
• Geary, William Denis "Song of Experience"
• Beaudro, William George "Jovial Embroidery"
• Lynch, James J. "A Barbarous Epic"
• Skehan, Paul F. "Franklin, the Self-Made Man"
• Hughes, Edward Riley "Vox Ex Umbris"
• Hayes, John T. "Dance of the Years"
• Walsh, John P. "The Holy NIght"
• O'Reilly, Thomas J. "On the Art of Worry"
• Sweeney, Charles E. "World Beyond"
• Houlihan, John "Winter"
• Lynch, James F. "Ramelium"
• Samaan, Anis "Voltaire"

Volume 22, Number 1 - October 1939

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 1 – October 1939. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Dedication
• McGowan, James R. "The Anglo-Saxon"
• Sherman, Seymour A. "On the Appian Way"
• Sasso, Anthony B. "The Hoarders"
• Landry, Lionel J. "Take, for Example, Wagner"
• Kaylor, Edward "The Way of the Cross"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "A Veteran's Tale"
• Houlihan, John "Loss and Profit"
• Hayes, John T. "Lesson in Liquid"
• Lehner, Francis "Charles Peguy"

Volume 21, Number 4 - May 1939

The Alembic

Volume 21, Number 4 - May 1939. 67 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "En Avant"
• Crowley, Francis, "Tick-Tick-Tick"
• Farrell, Thomas, "To Her"
• Healey, Robert C., "Alas, Poor Cobb"
• Gallagher, Matthew P., "The Glory of an Empire"
• Landry, Lionel J., "The Common Touch"
• Hayes, John T., "Solitary Solitude"
• Williams, Jr., T., "One Never Knows"
• McGovern, Charles T., "Loved I Not Honor More"
• Kenny, Herbert, "Well Done, My Son"
• Honnen, Jr., William H., "Papist Propaganda"

Volume 21, Number 3 - March 1939

The Alembic

Volume 21, Number 3 - March 1939. 56 pages including covers and advertisements.

Contents

• Editorial, "Urbi et Orbi"
• Wardle, Irving, "Tavern on the Turnpike"
• Carignan, Norman J., "Bad, Bad Benny"
• Landry, Lionel, "A Clear Prophet"
• Williams, Jr., Ira T., "Welcome Home"
• Houlihan, John T., "Adaptation of XXI of Les Regrets"
• Hayes, John T., "Bag of Oats"
• Sasso, Anthony R., "The Old Masters"
• Houlihan, John T., "I Hold a Drop of Water"
• Gallagher, Matthew P., "Armageddon"
• Ryan, Mark John, "Climbing Mount McHenry"
• Reidy, John J., "I Lose a Friend"
• Sherman, Seymour A., "On Water"