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2009
Issue One, October 2009
The Legend of the Jersey Devil
Jersey Fresh
One Hundred Seconds of Solitude
Decisions
Manual Criticism
Letters to Wolfhaus
Dog Days
The Werebear Who Wished to Come in from the Rain
Issue Two, November 2009
Sister
Foreign Exchange
Of Seagulls and Fishes
English Degree
Thinking Man’s Metal
Bound
Exodus
Issue Three, December 2009
Formula Romance
Gnosis Kardia
Time Machine
White Hallways
The Boy Who Threw Rocks at Trains
You and Me and the End of the World
2009 Holiday Half-Issue
Feliz Navidad
For Piano and Voice
River Girl
September’s Christmas
2010
Issue Four, January 2010
Dead Sharp Tail
Why the Walls Haven’t Been Painted Yet
The Hair
Three Dates in Orlando
Navels
Tête-à-Tête
Issue Five, February 2010
The Golden Streams of Babylon
52 Pickup
My Walk to Gamal Abd el Nasser
Kali’s Dance
Run for the Border
Issue Six, March 2010
Big Girl
Hand Me Down
To Do List
Normal After All
Out of Steam Punk and Zombie Comes Bruce Lee
Issue Seven, April 2010
The Newcomers
Nothing Up His Sleeve
Sigourney Weaver Stole My Shadow
Two Stories
Enclosure
Snowpocalypse
Issue Eight, May 2010
Album of the Year
The Last Goodbye
The Old Man and the Shark
Family Tree
Like I Wasn’t There
Pulling Feathers Off a Phoenix
Issue Nine, June 2010
Business with an M
Hey-Zeus, Can You See?
Big Girls
The Athlete
Slice of Life
Issue Ten, July 2010
Honesty Spree
The Socratic Method
The Bargain
The Downside to Undying Love
Demons and a Dead Duke
The New Mercury Ghost Dancers
Issue Eleven, August 2010
Crawfish Noon
The Tools of Amputation
Too Much Blood
Theo
The World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzle is a Bitch to Solve
Thinking of Ewe
Issue Twelve, September 2010
Stupid
How to Spend $40
Tesh
Road Test
Autumn Harvest
A Terrifying Moment of Contentment
Issue Thirteen, October 2010
A Robot’s Sonnet
Hole in the Garden
Morning Birdsong and the Hell Demons
Brave Young Americans: Some Assembly Required
Captain Neptunium and Lady U-boat
Issue Fourteen, November 2010
The Pragmatist
The Ballad of Done Me Wrong and Maybegirl
The Rodeo Clown
The Seven Stages of Sorrow
That Was Called Love
Issue Fifteen, December 2010
The Carpenter
You Can Take the Boy Out of Jersey
Gooseflesh
Nimrod!
Devil in the Details
One-Fourth
Holiday Half-Issue 2010
The First Thing I’ll Need is a Goat
Mall Satan
Blitzenkrieg
2011
Issue Sixteen, January 2011
In A Pinch
Brown and Green: A Love Story
The Unanswerable Question, Answered
If No, Then Else
Jenny
Apocalypse Wow!
Issue Seventeen, February 2011
The Monster at Baggage Carousel #3
The Fortune Teller
Space Creature Versus Earth Creature
Courting Aleksandra
Out of Sight, Out of Time
Issue Eighteen, March 2011
Night of the Garter
Bubble Wrap
Chimp
The Zombie Wish
Laika Wins the Race
Issue Nineteen, April 2011
Trapped in the Bathroom at the End of the World
Third Guard
Dry Heat
The Badlands
Armageddon’s Jester
Issue Twenty, May 2011
Socko and Roy
A Discourse on the Impending Apocalypse
Detachment
Eli and the Empty Lot
Julia and Raul
Issue Twenty-One, June 2011
A Chimaera Story With Four Morals
Literary Ops
The Swell Foop
The Six
The Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Heard
Issue Twenty-Two, July 2011
Golden Hours
Red
Jesus’ Nephew
Mammy’d Give Me Minds To Eat
Jolly Roger
Issue Twenty-Three, August 2011
Exposure
The Toad and the Butterfly
Pentecostal
CPA of the Sith
Issue Twenty-Four, September 2011
Where Did My Balls Go? or, The Story of Oliver: A Canine Memoir
Colony
Projekt Gesichtskreis
Fear and Loathing in Western Sweden
We Love Lucy
Issue Twenty-Five, December 2011
Conversations with My Vestigial Tail
Bones
Infested
Me and Gatsby
Rodents from Beyond: Part Two
A Nice Jewish Golem
Red Hot Panda Love
Holiday Half-Issue 2011
Almost Every November
The Resurrection of Old Saint Nick
Chinese Take-Out
The Long Happy New Year of Dora Wellington
2012
Issue Twenty-Six, January 2012
Night of the Living
Sonny Boy
The McElroy Family Hole
Beta Geminorum
We Left Him with the Dragging Man
The Final Word
Issue Twenty-Seven, February 2012
About the Hiding of Buried Treasure
The Remarkable Case of Lily Temple
Like I Say
SOCKS
Death Car Alley
Red and Blue Makes Purple
Untitled
Issue Twenty-Eight, March 2012
Inside the Ellipse
Body
No Suits Allowed
What’s Yours Is Yours
Awful Gods
Devil Smile
Issue Twenty-Nine, April 2012
Epics Reduced to Sentences
Winning for Losing
James Joyce, Herman Melville, and God Get Rejected!
Sylvia’s Kitchen
Bubbling Over
A Brief Survey of 19th Century North European Art
War Zone
Mademoiselle Ponceau
The All-Star Issue: Issue Thirty, May 2012
Cleopatra the Alligator Empress and What She Left Behind
Murmuration
The Last Bird
The Artist and the Asterisk
Fictional Ruins and Finger Bang
Issue Thirty-One, June 2012
Big Lonesome Monster
Bonnie and Clyde
Change-Me Chelsey
McRib Ending Soon
Paper Heart
Crumplezone
Beneath the World Teeth
Issue Thirty-Two, July 2012
Night of the Living Thespians
Love I Get So Lost
Salome
Longing to Play the Oboe
Wide Right Game
You Know What To Do
TextureX
The Novella Issue: Issue Thirty-Three, August 2012
Merdeux
Surface Interval
Lazy Daze
Issue Thirty-Four, September 2012
In The Drink
Dad’s Barracuda
The Tickets
El Legarto Gigante
The Youguru
Slug Love
Jetpackin’
Ouroboros
For Kylie
The Guitarist
Super, Not Nova
The End of a Day
Writer’s Block
Issue Thirty-Five, October 2012
Sum Quod Eris
Gate Night
A Shirt of Bears
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Mermaids at St. Abbs Head
The Magician
Grime 107
Issue Thirty-Six, November 2012
Men of Blood
Lorissimo
G.V.M.
Toasty
Hard Travelin’
Union Beach
Special Issue: International Human Rights Day 2012
How I Upstaged Anne Frank
Another Novella Issue: Issue Thirty-Seven, December 2012
Keeley Kunoichi
from Book of Shadows
2013
Issue Thirty-Eight, January 2013
Together, We Can Save a Life
Monsters: A Series of Non-Chronological Vignettes
Of Lullabies and Lightning Storms
Elephantine
Good for the Gander
My Headphones
Issue Thirty-Nine, February 2013
Brace
Death Valley
Correspondence*
How to be a Celebrity
Us: A Retrospective
The Fall
Blanket of Ash
Godzilla Reading Haiku
Deconstructing Poe
Issue Forty, March 2013
Spike
Killer Interview
Chestnut Trifold
Bakkheia
The Snake Eaters
Heart of Darkness, Page 065
Issue Forty-one, April 2013
Black River
The People They Became
Seeking Sunday
Dippin’ and Dustin’
Salivate
Sword Fight
Issue Forty-two, May 2013
Storybook Romance
Squirrel
The Puzzle
Hey, Brother
Bazaar
Back and to the Left
Church
Slow Betty
Inspiration’s Well
Forgotten
Issue Forty-three, June 2013
Drones
Arrhythmia
What The Hell Is A Bread Van?
Middle-Class Man
Sleeping Saints Lie
It Scares Me When It Gets Like This
The Last Time I Saw Her, She Was Doing Fine
The Next Screen You See May Be Your Own
Issue Forty-four, July 2013
The Hunter in the Darkness
Interior Design
The Madness of Fluffytown
Whispers to the Moon Are Always Heard by Cats
The Watchers in the Dark
Tentacle
Issue Forty-five, August 2013
Liz Kicak
Ed Higgins
Jason Braun
Skylaar Amann
Mike Cole
Ben Nardolilli
William Doreski
M. R. Lang
Trevor Tingle
Amanda Chiado
Changming Yuan
Richard Prins
Eric Westerlind
Uche Ogbuji
Mark Burgh
Robert Buswell
JeFF Stumpo
Sigrun Susan Lane
Hamlet, Prince of Uranus
Issue Forty-six, September 2013
Blood and Dirt
Prophet
The Hermitage
Hitchin’
The Laws
The Big One
Being Judged
Issue Forty-seven, October 2013
There is No Joy between the Last Thing and the Next Thing
Painting Dragons
The Art of the Dedicated Cyclist
Your Room
Giant Kewpie
Issue Forty-eight, November 2013
Saving Jesus
Only One Good Reason to Get a Haircut
Katelyn
The Particular Human
The Grey Egg
Amazing Human Post-It Note
Gutted
Issue Forty-nine, December 2013
AetherHex
My Sunshine
The Sweeper of Flies
Zombies Near the Fence
Forest Thinker
2014
Issue Fifty, January 2014
Ash Wednesday
Fox and Tiger
He Was, After All, a Gopher
Are You Man Or Aquatic Ectotherm?
Why’s Wally
The Blind Toast
Issue Fifty-one, February 2014
Raritan, New Jersey. 2012
Things That Float
My Horns Hurt
A Bad Case
Path of Stones
Carnecupulus; Dismissed Messenger of Cupid
Issue Fifty-two, March 2014
Little Monster
By Good Angels Tenanted
Joe’s Theory
The Memory Thief
The Scuttlebutt on Pluto
Revenge
Issue Fifty-three, April 2014
Del, We’re Sorry, Please Stop
Natural Birth
Them Oranges
The Strangler Fig Slide
Anguish
Issue Fifty-four, May 2014
The Many Incarnations of Blazer Chief
How to Wash a Magic Carpet
With Spider
Relics
The Dog with the Rhinestone Eyes
Reading Between the Lines
Issue Fifty-five, June 2014
Tank Full of Fumes
San Francisco
. . . leave a message
Hurrah Boy
Robot 5: Rupert
Issue Fifty-six, July 2014
One Percent Rumsfoord
The King of Green Street
Anton Toller, The Man with an Upside-Down House
Pest Arrest
Moth Man
Serling
Issue Fifty-seven, August 2014
Behold the Monster in Repose
Return of the Feathered Octopus
Tricks Man
Once They Sainted a Mermaid
The Dragon
Pterodactyl
Gargoyles
Dinosaur World
Myakka Skunk Ape
The Dragon Slayer
Gorgon
Green Man
Δείτε τι θέλετε; Θέλετε να βλέπετε
Xenophobe
Ring Rock Riot
Birds Attack Man on Bike
Issue Fifty-eight, September 2014
The Perfect Zen Dance of the Boulder
Substitute Angel
Two Haiku
Unexpecting
Back garden, 2 AM
Even
Question Mark —
Wrong Dream
Two Poems
Walvis
Issue Fifty-nine, October 2014
Gräfenberg Fulfillment
Cold Spell
Long Term Unemployment
The Baby
The First Last Mermaid Porn Queen
Karaoke for the Deaf
Horror House
Issue Sixty, November 2014
Birth of A Surrealist
Bitches Be Like 5 Seconds
Two Poems
The Right Bait
We Burn the Formal Scarecrow
Butterfly Loop
Elephant Head
Issue Sixty-one, December 2014
Asbury Park in the Off-Season
The Festival of the Lamb
haiku
Two Tanka
The Lottery Game
In Memoriam
Dragasaurus Rex
The Special Issue for Eirik and Monica
They Call Him Bigfoot Avert Your Eyes No Autographs Please
The View from the Backseat
Lifeguard
Think Tank
My First Curse Word
Vital: A Love Story
The Devil Smiles Again
2015
Issue Sixty-two, January 2015
Date
Terrible Scenes of Mutilation
Burp
Brontosaurus
Stone Umbrella
Issue Sixty-three, February 2015
The Action Never Stops at Action Park
The Nature of Johnny’s Medicine
The Girl with Black, Black Hair and The Golden Snake
Built To Last
Death At Burger King
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventure
I Am a Skin and a Lotion Soaking Up Myself
Issue Sixty-four, March 2015
The Little Duck
Hunger
We Break Up in Multiple Universes
In the Stairwell
Divine Message
The People Outside Your House are NOT Monsters
Drowning
Issue Sixty-five, April 2015
The People of the Pit
Mandelbrot Chaos
Self-Condemned in the Tunnelbana
Conversational Distance
My Friends Live on My Bed
Sacrificial Lamb
Issue Sixty-six, May 2015
Obelisk
Two Prose Poems
The Last Breakfast of Corporal Ashton the Blessed
A Woman in Tech
Jasper’s Gone Fishing
New York Noir #9, ink and wash, 2013
Issue Sixty-seven, June 2015
The Woman on the Couch
The Smell of Green Onions
How to Write About Sand
Baby Calzones
The Blue Spruce
Hunger
Issue Sixty-eight, July 2015
Riding the Hog
Because Sometimes Little Boys Do Not Listen to Their Mothers
Alchemy
Old Bill and the Zombie Stripper
Wall
Dino Scraps
Issue Sixty-nine, August 2015
The Incident at Ong’s Hat
Yoel the Chickenkeeper
Transition
Spawn
Scorpion Midnight
Western Dark
An Open Mind: frog with exposed brain in formaldehyde
Issue Seventy, September 2015
When the Bees Came
Sue Nguyen Sees No Ghosts
No One Died on the Moon
Our Lady of Fire
Loveteeth
Japanese Snowy OctoBunny LULU, porcelain doll
Issue Seventy-one, October 2015
Where’s the Best BBQ in This Town?
Nothing Contributes So Much to Tranquilize the Mind as a Steady Purpose
Fingers
Paper Cities
A Taste of Fame
Weed
Issue Seventy-two, November 2015
From Sedna’s Hands
Dishroom Supervisor
In Response to the News
Heatseeker
We Cannot Become What We Need to Be by Remaining What We Are
French Bulldog
Issue Seventy-three, December 2015
A Limp
The Dream Before the Frog
The Dairy Aisle
Something About Nudity in the Kitchen
The 4 Star Theatre
Inventory of the World
Nun and Whore
2016
Issue Seventy-four, January 2016: The Sherlock Holmes Issue
Sexing the Detective
Bohemian Soul
Killing Sherlock
A Year in Sherlocku
The Adventure of the Etheric Projection
Issue Seventy-five, February 2016
Spirit of the Bidet
Two poems
Lady Zubaida’s Maid
Lessons in Lepidoptery
Two poems
Visitation
Lina
Issue Seventy-six, March 2016
The Pendulum
Imperfect, Appalachian She in Acrylic
Dinah Shore Visits CBGB in Preparation for Her Interview with Iggy Pop, 1977
Life on Mars?
The Prisoner
8 Ball
Want
Issue Seventy-seven, April 2016
My Papa, He Made Me a Frankenstein
What You Deserve
At the Old Ball Game
Omen
How They Lost Us
Everything That Matters in Life and Death
Nick and Nora
Issue Seventy-eight, May 2016
Magnets of Faith and Knowing
Dream Hard On
What Feasts Might Follow
Zoned
I Give It Six Months
Luminary
Of Mice and Rats
Issue Seventy-nine, June 2016
Dry Bucket
The Binge Watcher
Jezebel Behind the Cosmetics Counter at Macys
Dr. Bruce
Stitch
Issue Eighty, July 2016
So, Below
Mr. Senthil Chooses Love
Lenny
Provision
The Pieced Together Pet
Issue Eighty-one, August 2016
hinky man
The Banana Festival
Tiny Gods
Queen of the Moon
Fire Breather
Issue Eighty-two, September 2016
Itch Meat
Heads
City, this Baltimore
The Edge of the Universe
Lunar Condor
Issue Eighty-three, October 2016
Here Fishing
Jefferson Davis’s Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon: The Real Story
The Salwar
Double-Strength Demon Dogs
Infanta
Issue Eighty-four, November 2016
Hyena, Hyena
The Fortissimo Peacock
Coldcut
The Elixir Witch
Pollo: 43rd and Chestnut, July to October, 2015
The One That Got Away
2017
Issue Eighty-five, December 2016/January 2017
Gonzo Feline Dream
And a Time to Die
Mary Worth
The Bowls, the Buttons, and the Baskets
Mutually Agreed Upon
Georgie
Dead Reclining
First week after the election
Issue Eighty-six, February 2017
The Scandalous Banality of Edward the Normal Boy
All Praise the Night
The Goon Who Won
The Postman’s Wedding
This is Our Constellation
Issue Eighty-seven, March 2017
Snowball Wants to Go to Outer Space
We’re Not Dangerous
Were It So Easy
Save Us/Take Me
Issue Eighty-eight, April 2017
Moonpickers
Violence on Thursday
Sergeant Cuff names a rose ‘Catherine Earnshaw’
FTONA
Rope
Issue Eighty-nine, May 2017
What You Don’t Hear
An Invitation, and Virgil
The Silverware Club
Whitechapel
The Day the Circus Died
Unity
Issue Ninety, June 2017
Fifty Burghers
Two Poems
The Next Great Cowboy Poet
Prior to a Burning a Dodge Dynasty Falling With Grace
Android #3
Issue Ninety-one, July 2017
What Child is This
Two Poems
Thought Fox
The Air Conditioner
The Incident Above Delta Vega
Issue Ninety-two, August 2017: The Victorian Mash-Up Issue
In Which Liz Frankenstein Lives, Makes New Friends, Saves Nikola Tesla, and Fixes What She Can
Call Me Little Woman
Dynamics
The Satanic. Satan Sowing Tares
Issue Ninety-three, September 2017
Change
What Big Brains You Have
The House by the Banyan Tree
Stay a Little While
Kneel
Issue Ninety-four, October 2017
Midnight Plus Thirty
Free Association
The Man With No Outlines
Heavenly Creatures
The Unobserved Cat
Issue Ninety-five, November 2017
Take Me
After Lunch
Kafka in Paradise
The birds are stealing my dreams
UFO
Issue Ninety-six, December 2017
Villa de Leyva
The Monster Bazaar
Chick
References
Panic
2018
Issue Ninety-seven, January 2018
Jumpers
The Lights Are the Eyes of Animals
Travis in Hollywood
Venetian Ink
Einstein Owl
Issue Ninety-eight, February 2018
Socrates the Frog
The Man in Front of Our House
Beautiful Mite
The Last Ride
Untitled
Issue Ninety-nine, March 2018
The Stenographer
Puffer
The Lady of the House
Strange Affliction
Welcome to the Surreal
Issue One Hundred, April 2018
The Giraffe Whispers Human Words
Different Strokes
SuckMyDick7: A Ghost Story
We Will Walk the Earth Together, As Bipedal Hominoids, Hand in Hand
A Little Death
Always Leave Them Wanting More
The Falconer
Issue One Hundred and One, July 2018
A Legend Is Born
These Things — They Just Happen
Creaturehood in Contra Costa County
Lar-a-bowl
Stardumb
That Buzzing in Your Ear
Untitled
Issue One Hundred and Two, October 2018
The First Week in July
Yutu
The Distillation Process
Indeterminate Drives
Adaptation
Untitled (chair)
2019
Issue 103, January 2019
A late night thought
A Statue of a Crazed Horse
Tag
Takeover
Abecedarian on Drinking with Indians
Life in the Sky Circa 1998
The Secret Life of Randy
A Rose’s Reckoning
Earthly and Immediate Causes
Garysaurus
Issue 104, April 2019
Angler
Changing
Big Problems
12.17.18
Adolescent
Zora and the Zombie
Pony Boy
Issue 105, July 2019
The Shuffler
Quantum Summer
Birthday 10
What Breaks Us Is What Separates Us from the Animals
The Justice of Foxes
Triple Moons
Crazy Knights
Keyhole #584
Issue 106, October 2019
The Wolf Who Was Late
How the Ninja Turtles Almost Got Me Killed
They being (being there)
Chips and Cheers
How to Pull a Coin Out of an Ear
Throw Yourself Across the Earth
Untitled
2020
Issue 107, January 2020
People Who Live in Invisible Houses
Ferryman
Recalling the Creation Account
Heliophobes at Night
Admission to the Burning Ruins — 10 Cents
Beyond the Bardo
Space
Issue 108, April 2020
Weightless
Do Sacrifices Dream of Empathy?
Coiled
The Youngest Cannibal Returns to Texas for the Holidays After Her First Semester of College
Three Scifaiku
Ellen
Every single hand is just a tree
Issue 109, July 2020
The Spare Child
Drawing an Eyebrow
In the lands of landfill lords
Amid the Frolicking Penguins
The Yellowbird House
Magic Wand
Mind Over Matter
Issue 110, October 2020
Bayonne Bridge
The Identity of Indiscernibles
About People of Glass and Stone
Broadside
haiku
Rise and with the Valkyries Fly
2021
Issue 111, January 2021
At Stone Harbor
Night Diner
Unemployment
Diamond
A Locked Room Mystery
The Mesh
Untitled (cave)
Issue 112, April 2021
Stasis
Fangs
Tanka in Half-Light
To the person who stabbed me while I was sitting on my fire escape
Over the Board
Futuristic Funerals
Window Girl Alone
Issue 113, July 2021
Hassan Believed
Salisbury Frolics
Peaches
Necromancing Orson Welles
Body Bag
All Alright Now
Graffiti
Issue 114, October 2021
Inertia of the Noon Wraith
Might Have to Lose It
There’s nothing I love better than Jesus
The Garbanzo Gangster
Medley for My Banshee
The Songbird Thing
Dark Monster
2022
Issue 115, January 2022
Little Cartoon
The Start of a Bad Joke
Subway
Inside the Last Cinnamon Raisin Bagel
She
Jersey Devil Press
Issue 116, April 2022
One of Everything
A Pear
Fulfillment
Red evening light and the sky is a tantrum
Aerophobia
Five haiku
Directions for Surviving an Urban Legend
Marguerite Leucanthemum
Issue 117, July 2022
Expectation Nightmares
The Geese Are Back (in Town)
Dump Bear
Any Other Person
I Am Jacql
Drum as noun
Birds
Issue 118, October 2022
La Poesie Me Volera Ma Mort
Comma fortissimo
Worlds Crossing the Palm of Reality
Funeral Flowers
A Compass for Ariadne
Skulliosis
Elephant Smoking
2023
Issue 119, January 2023
tyrannosaurus morning
Waterloo
Independent Horror Movie: Post-Credit Scenes Explained
Mending
five haiku
Velma
Jersey Devil Soup
Issue 120, April 2023
Colander
haiku
Guitar Wolf
Immediate Release
Mirror of Orthrus
Issue 121, July 2023
Art Appreciation
A Museum
A Sandwich for George Orwell
Three haiku
Two Poems
Melting Woman
Issue 122, October 2023
two haiku
Mortar
Clue
two haiku
Astronaut Cat
2024
Issue 123, January 2024
Two Poems
If There Was a God of Salvation, the Thing You Need Would Not Evade You for So Long
Three Haiku
Aaron Rodgers
The Man Who Couldn’t See Heads
Solar Birdseed
Christmas
Issue 124, April 2024
The Kites All Turned to Animals in the Air
Precipitant
haiku
Familiar Territory
Goat with Boy
Brilliant Disguise
Something in the Night
Carbon
Seven of Swords
My Mother’s Bra Size
The Working Life
To Your Memory: New Jersey
The Dark Side of Serendipity
Devil’s Arcade
Coda
Carnival’s Last Show
Books
The 2015 Jersey Devil Press Anthology
Top Secret Contributor Page
Revenge-aroni
Shake Away These Constant Days
Excerpt from Shake Away These Constant Days
High Voltage
Dead Presidents
Excerpt from Dead Presidents
Exponential Apocalypse
Excerpt from Exponential Apocalypse
Love Me
LOVE ME Chapter One: A Dozen Wishes
Screw the Universe
Perhaps.
Jesus Was Broke
The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology
Events
Genghis Khan Versus a Velociraptor
2016
