Another Five Favorites, Some Recent and Some That Have Stuck in My Mind

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"The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers (a short story which originally appeared in The North American Review in 1998 and is reprinted online at Tales of the Decongested; there is also a short student film by Ian Schranz based on this story, and it is available on YouTube)

"Favors" by Beth Ann Fennelly (a poem from Blackbird, Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2004)

"For a Newly Divorced Friend Whose Ex-Husband Claims She Stole His Favorite Tupperware Bowl" by Jeff Worley (a poem from Indiana Review, Volume 19, Number 2, Fall 1996, and reprinted in Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, ed. by Ginny Lowe Connors)

"Disconnect" by Donna Vorreyer (a prose poem from Flashquake, Volume 4, Issue 3, Spring 2005)

"Dinner Parties and Post Nuptials" by Emilia A. Phillips (a poem from The Pedestal Magazine, Issue 38, February/March 2007)

The Spring 2007 issue of the Apple Valley Review

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The Spring 2007 issue of the journal features an essay by J.W. Young; fiction by Jenny Steele, M. Thomas Gammarino, Kerri Quinn, Srdan Papic (translation by Marija Panic), Eva Eliav, Julia Curcio, Patricia Gosling, Danielle Lapidoth, Peggy Duffy, and Wayne Scheer; prose poetry by Sean Lovelace; poetry by Karen Schubert, Rosa Salazar, Ona Gritz, Brian Gilmore, Anna Evans, Adam Tavel, Mary MacGowan, James Cihlar, Simon Perchik, Raymond Wachter, Shaindel Beers, Diane Tucker, Bob Bradshaw, Gina Marie Mammano V., Sandy McIntosh, Terrance Wedin, Rachel Bunting, Anca Vlasopolos, Edward Byrne, and Christine Vovakes; and artwork by Sarah Browning.

The Apple Valley Review is a semiannual online literary journal. The current issue, previous issues, and complete submission guidelines are available at www.applevalleyreview.com.