MAYDAY

MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 6 Fall 2012

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FEATURED
ARTIST		 José Ð Almeida Scenes of Catharsis: A Gallery
NONFICTION Bobby Neel Adams The King of Sixth Street
Rebecca Cook Yellow Cake
Joanna L. Grisham The Stranger
Bryan Paiement Reserved for the Son
FICTION Tetman Callis Yttat
Michelle Davis Broken
Jacob Doyle If You Were the Ice
Jeff Friedman Seeing Letitia
Micah Dean Hicks Dog Summer
Josh Peterson The Center for Religious Extremism
Richard Sonnenmoser Eating Cake
Brett Strickland Beautiful Teeth
POETRY Jason Lee Brown * Made in Part from Corn
or Corn-Fed Animals
Rob Cook

On the Four Train to the Ends of the Moon

Norwegian Deer Trails
Ron Czerwien Poem for the Next Stranger I Meet
Ellen Elder The Body
Benjamin Goldberg Born-Again Mystic
Anthony Jones Oh, So You’re an Actor?

Marcel Lecomte
translated by K.A. Wisniewski

 Carnival
John McKernan

Hello  Zero

This Thought of Susan
Eduard Mörike
translated by Maggie Roseneau		 Brimstone Butterfly in April
Tara Mae Mulroy The Family Pet
Kate Partridge For Tameness
Mark Parsons The Silver Surfer Goes Shopping for an Engagement Ring
Frederick Pollack Cities and Years
Derek Pollard Raggedy Andy
Mary Quade The Tomato
Maggie Rosenau you and self: do not force the lust weak-willed
Jeffrey Taylor Canyonlands National Park
Kirby Wright At the Memorial Park
Ryo Yamaguchi Cheat


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Further Reading

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THE READER by Robert Walser (translated by Daniele Pantano)

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