Cover Art Gallery: John Abrams

Contents

• Editor's Note by Emily Pohl-Weary

• Thirteen More Reasons I’m Single and Shameless Love by Evie Christie
• The First Time by Helena Kvarnström
• An Eighties Elegy by Adrienne Weiss
• The Video Shop by David Burke
• Poem for the Other Side of the Apartment Door by Zoe Whittall
• Interview with Cover Artist John Abrams by Kiss Machine
• Quenched by Joanne Huffa
• Password Protection by Katharine Tillman
• The Urban Condition by Byron Barrett
• from Human Resources by Rachel Zolf
• Dirty Laundry by Kelly McCarthy-Maine
• Undertow by Byron Barrett
• That Does Not Pass by Paola Poletto
• Canada Day by Kristi-Ly Green
• Dead Motorcycle Cops by Darryl Berger
• Contrasts by Stacey-May Fowles
• Checking Out by Kate Sutherland
• Reasons I Quit Drinking Hard Liquor by Christen Thomas

ALL NEW! The Kiss and Tell: Shameful Things We Love and Hate
Anti-interview with Shary Boyle. Reviews of reality TV, music, a Margaret Christakos performance, Camilla Gibb’s novel Sweetness in the Belly, Andrea Dorfman’s film Love That Boy, and Shameless magazine.

Columns

• Reality Hacking by Jesse Hirsh

• Present Preoccupations by Tamara Faith Berger
• Gonzo Stro by Greg Majster
• Good Advice by Paul Hong
• Up and Anti-Up by Sally McKay