introduction xii
last night's violent math
Janan Platt 4
family lore
Dan Brodnitz 5
seven times 7
Galinsky 7
the ice cream man myth
John Labovitz 10
remember the woolworth's
Spike Gillespie 11
getting the hang of yin and yang
Gael Morlan 15
life with father
Joseph Squier 19
cat in a tree
Ben Cohen 34
amy beauty rose
Xander Mellish 36
jerry was
Jamie Fristrom 47
almost awake
Malcolm Humes 55
no bird but an invisible thing
Christian Crumlish 72
flux
Various Artists 91
like magic
Freeman Ng 100
bigamy in the desert
Christy Sheffield Sanford 102
8 minutes
Martha Conway 109
the damnation of richard gillman
Greg Knauss 131
the valentine thief
Carl Steadman 145
intervention
Walter Miller 153
contacting sun ra
Scot Hacker 169
very short stories
Steve Seebol 172
negative space
Mark Napier 174
art world rag
Gregory Severance 196
a geography of smell
Briggs Nisbet 199
the understanding (2525)
David Keith 205
why my town is redneck
Mike Watt 211
some people
John Humpal 218
lotto
Alison Dorfman 220
the weight
Steve Silberman 221
fragmented geographies
N.G. Meriwether 227
double truth on the second level
David Alexander 242
dry popcorn
Sudama Adam Rice 251
farewell letter
Gregory Pleshaw 253
keepers
Lee Ranaldo 264
fragments from africa
Meg Wise-Lawrence 265
the second-to-last night at skank's
Michael McCullough 277
double sun
Robert Hunter 282
apparition
Levi Asher 283
a personal history of alternative music and the internet
E. Stephen Mack 297
Appendix A finding good writing on the web 301
Appendix B how to write for the web 312
about the editors 315