Caketrain Issue 04. Jan 2007

5 3/8" × 8 5/16" × 178 pp.

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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 other delights, Matthew Derby puts the icing on this gray train with an excerpt from a novel-in-progress, complete with Nauseateds, nanomeals and a basketball game that quickly devolves into a hilarious, horrifying sitch.




Contributors
Cynthia Atkins, Margaret Bashaar, Matt Bell, Joe Bonomo, Liam Callanan, Jennifer Chapis, Rachel Dacus, Matthew Derby, John Domini, Claire Donato, Brian Evenson, Porter Fox, Jason Fraley, Stephen Frech, Melissa Ginsburg, Sarah Goldstein, Peter Golub, Twilight Greenaway, Ian Harris, Han Hoogerbrugge, Julia Idlis, Douglas S. Jones, Liberty Kohn, Viola Lee, Robert Lopez, Kuzhali Manickavel, Kristi Maxwell, Pedro Ponce, Marie Potoczny, Bernard Quetchenbach, Michael Rerick, J.D. Schraffenberger, Allison Titus, William Walsh.




Acknowledgments
Cover image “Fuck Death,” 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.