Disappearing ,
2014
Western Michigan University
Cold Trial,
2014
Western Michigan University
Dreaming,
2014
Western Michigan University
Fire And Rye,
2014
Western Michigan University
I Y Yo,
2014
Western Michigan University
Side By Side,
2014
Western Michigan University
Grandmother,
2014
Western Michigan University
Brother Love,
2014
The University of San Francisco
Brother Love, Douglas Trevor
Ontario Review
Douglas Trevor, the recipient of the Francis LeMoyne Page Prize for his senior thesis (a novel) at Princeton University, is currently finishing up a collection of short stories. He is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in English Literature at Harvard.
X And O,
2014
The University of San Francisco
X And O, Jewel Morgan
Ontario Review
Jewel Mogan, of Lubbock, Texas, has published fiction in Mademoiselle, The North American Review, Ascent, and other journals.
The Match,
2014
The University of San Francisco
The Match, Maxine Kumin
Ontario Review
Maxine Kumin’s tenth book of poetry, Looking for Luck, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award of 1993. Her new book, Women, Animals and Vegetables: Essays and Stories, from which this story is taken, will be published by Norton in August 1994. She raises horses on a farm near Warner, New Hampshire.
"Interior Design",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Interior Design", Mary Marsh
Ontario Review
Mary Marsh is the nom de plume of a New York-based writer, artist and designer. This story is her first published work of fiction.
"Watch. Watching",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Watch. Watching", Karl Jirgens
Ontario Review
Karl Jirgens is head of the English Department at the University of Windsor. He is the author of four books, two of fiction, Measure of Time (1998, Mercury Press) and Strappado: Elemental Tales (Coach House Press, 1984), and academic studies of Bill Bissett (1992) and Christopher Dewdney (1996), both from ECW Press.
"Night At The Grand Hotel",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Night At The Grand Hotel", Sheila Kohler
Ontario Review
Sheila Kohler is the author of six novels, most recently Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness (Other Press, 2007), and three books of short stories including Stories from Another World (Ontario Review Press, 2003). Ms. Kohler's work will be included in the O'Henry Prize Stories for 2008. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Sunday Times, New Letters, The Antioch Review and elsewhere.
"The Little Wife",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"The Little Wife", Edith Pearlman
Ontario Review
Edith Pearlman has published more than 250 works of short fiction and short non-fiction in national magazines, literary journals, anthologies, and on-line publications. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize Collection, Best Short Stories from the South, and The Pushcart Prize Collection.
"From The Hour I First Believed",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"From The Hour I First Believed", Wally Lamb
Ontario Review
Wally Lamb, a resident of Willimantic, Connecticut is the author of numerous best-selling novels including She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True (both selections of the Oprah Book Club), and Couldn't Keep It To Myself: Testimonies. The excerpt in this issue of OR is from his next novel, to appear from HarperCollins.
"The Oath Of Office",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"The Oath Of Office", Adam Braver
Ontario Review
Adam Braver is the author of Mr. Lincoln's Wars, Divine Sarah, and Crows Over the Wheatfield. His work has appeared in journals such as Daedalus, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, Water-Stone Review, West Branch, and Post Road. He teaches at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, and is a Writer-in-Residence at the NY State Summer Writers Institute. His latest book, November 22, 1963, will be published in November 2008.
"Maternity Leave",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Maternity Leave", Matthew Dulany
Ontario Review
Matthew Dulany's stories have appeared in turnrow and the Kelsey Review. He has written a novel, called The Neighborhood Is Changing, about white flight and gentrification in New York.
"Susie On A Sunday",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Susie On A Sunday", L. E. Usher
Ontario Review
L.E. Usher is an Australian novelist whose books include Miss (1999), and The Sudden Spoon (2001). Her most recent novel Then Came October (based on the life of a Victorian murderess) will be published by Harbour Books, UK, in September 2008.
"Donors",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Donors", Andrea Marcusa
Ontario Review
Andrea Marcusa is a fiction and essay writer. Her work has appeared in Newsday, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. She was one of the winners of the Alabama Poets Society's 2003 writing competition and took first place in the Tiny Lights 2006 Essay Competition.
"Like Smoke" From Burning Green Sun,
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Like Smoke" From Burning Green Sun, David Joiner
Ontario Review
In 1994, David Joiner became the first American to live and work in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, the location of the largest American air base during the war. He has contributed to two Fodor's™ guidebooks, including Fodor's™ Vietnam, and has published travel and culture articles in Vietnamese publications. The novel excerpt appearing here is his first published fiction, and he also has a story forthcoming in the Madison Review.
