Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary

Volume 3

• 1996 QAE Prize in Prose, First Place
  In the Belly of the Beast
  Walter Bargen
• 1996 QAE Prize in Prose, Second Place
  The Last Bunch
  Jeff Goldstein
• Right Now, As We Speak
  Marilyn Krysl
• Whining Prairie
  A Story of Stonewall
  Maureen Seaton
• Doer
  Clifford Browder
• X-Rays
  Corky
  William Heyen
• first time the construction worker came to the house
  far side of the moon
  signs of the times
  Friedericke Mayrscker (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)
• Throwing Stones at Mina
  Joe Bonomo
• Wild Pennies
  Sleeping with the Words
  Kathryn Stitt
• A Last Letting Go
  Sean Thomas Dougherty
• Momming It Up With Sylvia Plath
  Wendy Dutton
• Damascus, March 23
  Down to the simplest wire in the human voice
  Monday, March 28, Private Dinner Hosted by Bohemian Syrian Writers and Dissidents
  Diane Glancy
• The Canonization of Madame Arce Saez
  Randal Ford
• Hank Williams First Vision of the Bhudda
  Hieronymus Bosch Drinks from the Petri Dish
  David Tomasovitch
• Individuation
  Haog Holmgren
• Raw Nerve
  Dion Farquhar
• The Theory of Hooks
  Little Corrie
  Paul Christensen
• Inlet
  Simulcast
  Donald Morrill
• Spagryic Red
  Clayton Eshleman
• Wilderness and Witness
  John Haines (interviewed by Matthew Cooperman)
• Mistress Mary
  Kika Bomer
• If the Ground Would Open It Would Be Better
  Jane C. Blue
• an excerpt from Tiny Tales
  Ben Miller
• Maternity Ward
  R. C. Ringer
• Permission to Lie: #1
  Lee Gutkind
• Permission to Lie: #2
  Fern Kupfer
• What's to Light
  Mary Kuryla
• an excerpt from The Triumph of the Water Witch (Triumful Parudei)
  Ioana Ieronim (translated by Adam J. Sorkin)
• Cleaning Kill
  Anne-Marie Oomen
• an excerpt from The Ghost and the Woman in the Origami Village
  Jim Elledge
• Pater Noster
  Peter Michelson
• Two Prisoners
  Late-Night TV
  Steven Wingate
• Looking Forward
  Tsipi Keller
• Windows: Of Shape and Consequences
  Molly Tenebaum
• The Loneliness of Art
  Thomas David Lisk
• Baseball and Poetry
  Helen Ruggieri
• The Fat of the Land
  Peter Szatmary & Joseph McDade
• Prepare a Photograph for Framing
  My Father, from a Photograph
  Shelia E. Murphy
• Desperate for the Story
  George Yatchisin
• Baltic Days
  Walter Bargen
• Graham Swift and Me: A Reminiscence
  John Lloyd Marsden