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Caketrain Issue 04

Caketrain Issue 04

Released January 2007

First printing, 200 copies

5 3/8 w × 8 5/16 h × 178 pages of sixty-pound acid-free white text stock, perfect-bound with a ten-point glossy cover stock

$8.00 US  |  Out of Print


Okay. This is the remix. Han, you said it, sketched it, made it stick: fuck death. Today it’s the motto, the mantra, more. On tonight’s episode: Melissa Ginsburg deconstructs and extracts the ghosts from seemingly benign fragments like in the and even in; John Domini sits the kids down for a story to teach us how not to tell a story; Jason Fraley breaks our prayer, but we’re left feeling surprisingly grateful; Margaret Bashaar’s Viking ex wants his ear-spoon back; Allison Titus makes with the long-lost art of narwhal-whispering; Rachel Dacus turns a trip to the dentist into the stuff of gripping, shocking transformative myth; William Walsh twists the yiffniff of Calvin Trillin into maddeningly interrogatory spin-art; and, among many, many, MANY other delights, Matthew Derby puts the icing on this gray train with an excerpt from his new novel-in-progress, complete with Nauseateds, nanomeals and a basketball game that quickly devolves into an absurd, hilarious, horrifying sitch. So please, give the fourth a try. It’s weirder than the usual fare, but it lives, lives still, flourishing with unprecedented coils of inspired language and strange new people in strange new lands, and we love it, and you will, too.


Han Hoogerbrugge

Fuck Death [cover image]

John Domini

Wrap Session, Story Seminar

Melissa Ginsburg

Anniversary Poem

Medicine

One Year

Pink Book

Wild Birds

Allison Titus

instructions from the narwhal

Brian Evenson

Dread

Margaret Bashaar

My Summer with the Norsemen

Twilight Greenaway

Of Your Lean, Long-Legged Life

Expectation

Scoliosis

Porter Fox

Runner

Michael Rerick

Hand Ends

Liberty Kohn

Village Well

Pedro Ponce

Fortune Fish

Viola Lee

conversation with the color of salt

conversation with the water in the pond

Marie Potoczny

The Moscow Subway in December

J.D. Schraffenberger

Fixture

Joe Bonomo

Gazing

Ian Harris

Breach

Douglas S. Jones

Passing Through

Notes on Rising Sherman Hill Summit

On the Morning of the Last Funeral of the Year

Jason Fraley

In Order, A Broken Prayer

Liam Callanan

Flush

Sarah Goldstein

Untitled (Saxon)

Untitled (Pilot)

Untitled (Antigone)

William Walsh

Question: Can You Say Something Nice?

Claire Donato

I have some things to tell you

Kuzhali Manickavel

The Unviolence of Strangers

Robert Lopez

Your Epidermis Is Showing

Bernard Quetchenbach

The Hermit’s Family

The Hermit’s Companion

The Hermit’s Bath

The Hermit’s Friend

The Hermit and the Arrowhead

Who Was the Hermit?

Matt Bell

A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths

Rachel Dacus

Fistulas

Wild Ranunculas

Stephen Frech

Rachmaninoff Through the Wall

Julia Idlis
Peter Golub, tr.

(“someone walks on the parquet”)

Jennifer Chapis

Fish Whisper

The Arc of Air

Rain Lost at Sea

Kristi Maxwell

Cycle (Action/Figure)

Cynthia Atkins

Family Therapy (III.)

Matthew Derby

An Excerpt


Cover image “Fuck Death,” 2006, Copyright 2006 Han Hoogerbrugge. Used by permission.

“Question: Can You Say Something Nice?” derived from If You Can’t Say Something Nice, Copyright 1987 Calvin Trillin. Used by permission of the author.

Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our interest is in bringing you, reader, the very best in contemporary creative writing, full stop. Our goals are for each issue of our journal to submerge you in a birthing tank for gelatinous language monsters, young masses of tentacular foci undulating as directed (in all, at once) by our eclectic stable of contributors; for each new book to seduce and ensnare you, sometimes intangibly, always undeniably; and for you, reader, to be able to draw at least one passage from our banks that prods your mind with a precision and power that feels as if it was written for your eyes alone. To wit and to whet, here is a snippet, a slight nip of our delicious lit mix:


New and Upcoming

afterpastures, by Claire Hero
(“Where did that feather come from?” asks Jen Tynes; let's find out)

Caketrain Issue 05
(Now bigger and with more gunbirds! New work from Alan DeNiro, Lisa Jarnot, Blake Butler, Angela Woodward, many more)


Boo. Arf.

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