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Archives (Printer-friendly pdf compilations of the weekly issues) Volume 3, Issue 2 (April-June 2009) Volume 3, Issue 1 (January-March 2009) Volume 2, Issue 4 (October-December 2008) Volume 2, Issue 3 (July-September 2008) Volume 2, Issues 1-2 (January-June 2008) Volume 4: 3.28.2010—Dani Raschel Jiménez, "Cihuateotl" 3.21.2010—Taylor Graham, "The Devil and Saint Michael of the Rock" 3.14.2010—Kenneth P. Gurney, "Craftswoman" and "Wet Spot Drying" 3.7.2010—Amy Jo Huffman, "The Blood of a Believer" 2.28.2010—William L. Alton, "Persephone and her Pomegranates" 2.14.2010—Paula Kolek, "Mythology" and "There were two natures in her" 2.7.2010—Robert Arthur Reeves, "Bible Verses" 1.24.2010—John Grey, "The Usual Magic" 1.17.2010—Paul Fisher, "The Boat" 1.3.2010—Rosa Mundi, "Reunion with Obàtálá" Volume 3: 12.27.2009—Buff Whitman-Bradley, "The Unhappy Prince—an opera" 12.13.2009—Ray Hinman, "Apollo Runs a Theater in Harlem," "Whitman's Ghost Takes a Tour of the City," "Artifacts" and "The Shaman Considers His Craft" 12.6.2009—Susan Landon, "To Pharoah Cheops" 11.22.2009—Maura MacDonald, "Pandora," "Orpheus Turns" and "Descent" 11.15.2009—Connie Vaughn, "Prometheus Unbound," "The World and the Fall" and "Waking Up" 11.1.2009—Kathryn DeZur, "Stripped" and "Jocasta" 10.25.2009—Robert Brown, "About Hades" 10.11.2009—E. Louise Beach, "Daphne" 10.4.2009—Nicelle Davis, "Duende" and "Lotus" 9.20.2009—Sheila Kaveny, "Sisyphus" 9.13.2009—Shadwynn, "Tumbleweed Theophanies" 8.30.2009—John Manesis, "The Ascent of Icarus" 8.23.2009—Israel Wasserstein, "Conversation with Zeus," "The Gods Play Poker" and "Stepping into the Woods" 8.9.2009—Robert Arthur Reeves, "Adam Expelled" 8.2.2009—Roberta P. Feins, "Inanna in Vegas" 7.19.2009—Alexandra Isacson, "Salem 1692" 7.12.2009—Nicola Fucigna, "Mark 8.24" and "Deconstructing Helen" 6.28.2009—J.V. Foerster, "Fairy Tales Simply Put" 6.21.2009—Barbara J. Williams, "A Tale of a Tree" 6.7.2009—Susan Koefod, "Turbulence" 5.31.2009—Donna Vorreyer, "Your Mind Wanders During the MRI" and "Reprieve" 5.17.2009—Dorie LaRue, "A Tale From Old Iona" 5.10.2009—Buff Whitman-Bradley, "The legend of unJim" and "In the myths of parrots" 4.26.2009—Sankar Roy, "Epic Lies," "Extreme Makeover" and "Land of Lotus Eaters" 4.19.2009—Paul McCann, "Tereus in Texas" 4.5.2009—Martha Oliver-Smith, "Shrift" and "Teiresias" 3.29.2009—Charlotte Pence, "Loss and Attainment," "Date Night" and "At Opry Mills Mall" 3.15.2009—Susan Slaviero, "Bluebeard's Clockwork Bride" and "Briar Rose, In Cryostasis" 3.8.2009—Larry Turner, "Krishna and the Cowgirls" 2.22.2009—Sean Thomas, "Freidrich Nietzsche and the Birth of Tragedy" 2.15.2009—Kenneth Pobo, "Voice from Niflheim" 2.1.2009—Carolyn Adams, "Sweet Cybele" and "Building the God" 1.25.2009—Kathleen Kenny, "Eve Realises Her Purpose, Then Becomes Catholic" 1.11.2009—Jason Mccall, "Gioll" 1.4.2009—Stephen Bunch, "No Possum, No Aesop, No 'Gators" Volume 2: 12.21.2008—Donna Lewis Cowan, "Virgo" 12.14.2008—Anna Alexandra Isacson, "The Delphic Oracle" 11.30.2008—Kenneth P. Gurney, "Waiting to Cross" 11.23.2008—Annette Basalyga, "SLEEPING BEAUTY: in three acts" 11.9.2008—Kean Kaufmann, "Reverse Persephone" and "Clotho" 11.2.2008—Cynthia Belmont, "Valentine" and "Lady Godiva, Twenty Years Later" 10.19.2008—John Grey, "Underworld" 10.12.2008—Nicole Hanna, "A Poet Meets the Lost Queen of Egypt" 9.28.2008—James C. Burbank, "Cartesian Kangaroos" 9.21.2008—Jennifer Jabaily, "Not Even Wolves" 9.14.2008—Angela Maria Williams, "Waking the Beast" 9.7.2008—Alan Price, "The Minotaur Salesman" 8.31.2008—Jacqueline West, "Teenage Atlas, in the Kitchen" and "Life through a Black Net Veil" 8.17.2008—Doug Ramspeck, "Cocytus" and "Rhapsode" 8.10.2008—Romana Iorga, "Rip Van Winkle" 7.27.2008— James B. Nicola, "Ariadne" 7.20.2008—Joanne Lowery, "Rape Crisis Center: A Myth" and "Demeter's Deal" 7.6.2008—Ki E. Russell, "Bedtime Story," "Ivan the Sweet" and "Baba Yaga Gets a Student" 6.29.2008—Michele Madigan Somerville, "From Gods' Mouths to My Ears" 6.15.2008—Jason Mccall, "Father to Father, Sun to Son," "No Search Engines in Valhalla," "Ulysses Discovers That His Son Wants to be Batman for Halloween," "Homecoming" and "Scope" 6.8.2008—Michelle Lerner, "For Percy, a month short of her 20th birthday" 5.25.2008—Howard Camner, "The Man in the Moon for Real," "Kismet" and "Bonus Eventus (god of happy endings)" 5.18.2008—Margarita Engle, "The Longing of Pegasus" and "Madre-de-Agua" 5.4.2008—Paul Hostovsky, "The Sneeze of Telemachos" 4.27.2008—Anca Vlasopolos, "The Eastland Daphne" 4.13.2008—Pamela L. Laskin, "Bare and Blistered" and "The Naked Emperor" 4.6.2008—Sheila Kaveny, "The Truth from Baba Yaga" 3.16.2008—Kenneth Gurney, "Glow," "Patter" and "God" 3.9.2008—Susana Roberts, "Lethe-ward" and "Hades at Work" 2.24.2008—Donna Lewis Cowan, "Daphne & Apollo: Meditations" 2.17.2008—Eric Martin, "The Cross" 2.3.2008—Suzanne L. Frost, "Kali Puja" 1.27.2008—Gale Acuff, "Confession" 1.13.2008—Saba Siddique, "To be a goddess" and "Al Hambra" 1.6.2008—Paul Hostovsky, "Young Orpheus," "Job" and "Pygmalion" Volume 1: 12.23.2007 – Liz Dolan, "A Kitchen Legend" 12.16.2007 – Wesley Biddy, "Society of Icarus" and "Vesper" 12.2.2007 – Stephen Bunch, "Five Retablos" 11.25.2007 – Billie Bernard, "Little Red" 11.11.2007 – Alan Morrison, "Ganymede" 11.4.2007 – Jeanne Wagner, "Medusa's Version" and "Penelope's Song" 10.21.2007 – Alex Galper, "Daring Winter Escape" 10.14.2007 – John Dutterer, "The Bathtub of Proteus" and "Tantalus Sells Out" 9.30.2007 – Kenneth Gurney, "Twenty-Nine July Two Thousand and ..." and "Naming Names" 9.23.2007 – Sherre Vernon, "Elijah Dreaming" and "Of Penelope and Calypso: ca. 1973" 9.16.2007 – Joanna Sit, "On Fire" 9.2.2007 – Felicia Mitchell, "Minerva at 48" and "Cerberus Revisited" 8.26.2007 – Andre Monserrat, "Flotsam" 8.19.2007 – Mary Langer Thompson, "School of Hard Rocks" and "Myth-Take" 8.12.2007 – Wayne Crawford, "Echo Teaches Her Daughter to Sing" 7.29.2007 – Annette Basalyga, "Two Wives," "Fairy Tales," "Blonde Burning" and "In Seclusion" 7.22.2007 – Teresa Middleton, "Demeter's Sunroom" and "Earth Mamas" 7.15.2007 – Janice D. Soderling, "Centaurs" and "The Unicorn and the Rider" 7.1.2007 – Doug Ramspeck, "TKE" and "Epimenides" 6.24.2007 – Kenneth Gurney, "Poem for Cafe Tazza" and "Shedding Centuries" 6.17.2007 – Billy Reynolds, "Rhea" 6.3.2007 – Chuck Rybak, "Homer-Erotic" and "Atlas on the Stairs" 5.27.2007 – Dale Harris, "Penelope" 5.20.2007 – Maureen Seaton, "Venus Examines Her Breast" and "Pele" 5.13.2007 – Jennifer Koiter, "Thoreau’s Last Hunt," "Karna Waiting" and "God in the San Juans" 5.6.2007 – David Wright, "The Three Graces Unite" and "After Myth" 4.29.2007 – Bertha Rogers, "To Orpheus" 4.22.2007 – Angela Maria Williams, "Artemis' Rousing" 4.15.2007 – Cassandra Labairon, "Hera Spies on Zeus From the Corner Booth at the Diner" and "Bodhisattva" 4.8.2007 – Saba Siddique, "Ballad 2" and "Ballad 3" 4.1.2007 – Carrie Cutler, "Cain's blessing" and "Bluebeard" 3.25.2007 – Cathryn McCracken, "[in the scrying bowl]," "hagging," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Sleeping Beauty 2" 3.18.2007 – Andrea Potos, "From His Ribs" and "Cinderella Gets Smart" 3.11.2007 – Taylor Graham, "Daphne in the Mining Claims" 3.4.2007 – Tony Zurlo, "Still Without Rhyme" and "Household Disharmony" 2.24.2007 – kat heatherington, "In the Wild Wood" 2.18.2007 – Kevin Klein, "Orpheus at the Florist's" 2.11.2007 – Stephen Bunch, "News from the Ultra Deep Field" 1.28.2007 – Margarita Engle, "Taino Petroglyph" and "Baucis and Philemon" 1.21.2007 – Carol L. MacKay, "A Gift for a Gift" and "Three Poems of Kathlin Hermandsdottir" 1.14.2007 – Robert Arthur Reeves, "The Last Ship from Atlantis" 1.7.2007 – Jeannine Hall Gailey, four poems from "Becoming the Villianess" – "Little Cinder," "The Selkie Wife’s Daughter," "The Snow Queen" and "Persephone and the Prince Meet over Drinks" Volume 4: 6.6.2010—Pippa Goldschmidt, "Turning" 5.15.2010—Lo-Ann Z. Trembley, "Russelka" 4.25.2010—Terence Kuch, "Boon" 4.4.2010—Mary Sue Penn, "The Proper Tool" 2.21.2010—Jessica Gleason, "Confessions of a Decapitated Gorgon: The Medusa Story" (a play) 1.31.2010—Tom Fillion, "My Savior Floyd" 1.10.2010—Kelly Mathews, "Sanctuary in Mind" Volume 3: 12.20.2009—Richard Bell, "The Flintlock and the Feather" 11.29.2009—K. Elizabeth Cornwell, "SHAPES: A Retelling of 'Tam Lin'" 11.8.2009—Dani Raschel Jiménez, "Reasonably Unforseeable" 10.18.2009—David Macpherson, "Breaking Lions" 9.27.2009—David W. Landrum, "The Grave of Kokomo" 9.6.2009—Sucheta Dasgupta, "The Courtesan's Bed" 8.16.2009—Kaitlin Phillips, "The Frost Giantess and the God of the Sea Fall in Love" 7.26.2009—Linda Ferguson, "Why I Ran From Apollo" 7.5.2009—J. Jones, "Icarus" 6.14.2009—Fran Walker, "First Love" 5.24.2009—Harry R. Campion, "Gold and Straw" 5.3.2009—Sean C. Hayden, "The Cobbler of Buttercup" 4.12.2009—Lillian Wheeler, "A Thing of Many Facets" 3.22.2009—Lisa D. Chavez, "House of the Fox Spirits" 3.1.2009—Alan Lewis, "The Gae Bolg" 2.8.2009—Michael Panush, "Puck Out of Luck" 1.18.2009—Helen Patrice, "Fair Winds" Volume 2: 12.28.2008—Tinney S. Heath, "The Patience of Griselda" 12.7.2008—Vicki Kimmins, "The Magician" 11.16.2008—Vivien Jones, "Water Sprite" 10.26.2008—Dave Siddall, "The Wind, the Sea and the Thief" 10.5.2008—Jeanne Shannon, "Ileana" 8.24.2008—Anna Bennetts, "Shiva and Uma" 8.3.2008—Joanna Gardner, "After Vespers" 7.13.2008—Darcy Bruce, "A Four Star Spicy Curry At the Edge of the World" 6.22.2008—Margaret Hammitt-McDonald, "Elvenwood Acres" 6.1.2008—Ryan P. Standley, "Blizzard" 5.11.2008—Beth Camp, "Rusalka" 4.20.2008—S.V. Wolfland, "The Mathematical Box" 3.23.2008—Susan Hazen-Hammond, "Mudbow" 3.2.2008—Daniel Braum, "The Ghost Dance" 2.10.2008—Miriam Sagan, "Winged Victory" and "The Reader" 1.20.2008—Sam Leng, "Consulting Hermes" Volume 1: 12.30.2007 – Nick Padron, "Papa's Bastard Son" 12.9.2007 – Mary Rae, "Corvus The Crow: An ancient star myth" 11.18.2007 – Harry Youtt, "First Night" 10.28.2007 – Stephanie Johnson, "Thesmophoria" 10.7.2007 – Melody Mansfield, "The Rape of Persephone" 9.9.2007 – Stefan Kiesbye, "The Mill" 8.5.2007 – Elizabeth Furiga, "How Stars Came to Be" 7.8.2007 – Virginia M. Mohlere, "How it Came to Gingerbread" 6.10.2007 – Stephen Bunch, "Ad Astra" 5.20.2007 – Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton, "Fickle Myths" 2.4.2007 – M. M. De Voe, "From the Leaf Lore" Volume 2: September 2008—Essay by Ronald Pies, "Dionysus on Park Avenue" January 2008—Essay by Lloyd D. Graham: "The Origin of Evil and the End of the World" Volume 1: May 2007 – Book Review: Keri Hulme’s “The Bone People” January 2007 – Book Review: Jeannine Hall Gailey's "Becoming the Villainess" Volume 4: May 2010—"Pandora’s box" and "Becoming" by Magdalena Taber April 2010—"Rising" by Elena Kubler March 2010—"A Tale of Two Houses," "Crystal and Pond House" and "The Road Veers Away" by Christopher Woods February 2010—"Somebody with a Body" and "Self-Portrait with Ring" by Paula Kolek January 2010—"Citiscape" by Adam Yeater Volume 3: December 2009—“Route 66 Gas Station” and “Route 66” by Derek McCrea November 2009—"fern babies" by Annie Dawid October 2009—"The Obsessive Gardner" and "Blood Web" by Jeremy Couturier September 2009—"Pieces" by T. Rorstrom August 2009—"oil sun" by Derek McCrea July 2009—"calla" by Annie Dawid June 2009—"Dawn Abstract 1" by Christopher Woods May 2009—“Santa Monica Pylon” by Amy Bernays April 2009—"Circus Cave Drawing" by Stephen Mead March 2009—"Morning Dream Place" by Christopher Woods February 2009—“‘18’x‘24’ lady veronica” by Charly Clerge January 2009—"The Strangers are Tuning" by Jesse Lindsay Volume 2: December 2008—"Bast Temple" by Clyde Grauke November 2008—"Hovering" by Kimo Pokini October 2008—"Vortex 1" by Lindsey Terrell September 2008—"The Silent Witness" by Clyde Grauke August 2008—“As This Lay Burning” by Kimo Pokini July 2008—“Locust” by Jeff Foster June 2008—“the maiden lay dreaming” and “palmleaf with a twist” by Cran Herlihy May 2008—“Serpent” by Kat Heatherington April 2008—“gargoyle lion” by Steve Cartwright March 2008—“Lantern with Words” by Annie Dawid February 2008—"Tree Dream Encaustic" by Stephen Mead January 2008—"Dragon 2" by Jill Brooks Volume 1: November 2007 –"Clothesline 1" by Annie Dawid October 2007 – "Open to Source" by Micah Schatz September 2007 – "fractured reality" by Gregory Dolnikowski August 2007 – "Ode to Vulcan" by Stephen Mead July 2007 – "Titaness" by Leslie Fox June 2007 – "Contract on America" by Lenny Krosinsky May 2007 – "Sunset" by Joseph Biondi April 2007 – Art by Phyllis Bertoni Krosinsky March 2007 – "Gong" by Steve Cartwright February 2007 – "Phoenix" by Andre Monserrat January 2007 – Illustration of "The Last Ship from Atlantis" by Lenny Krosinsky |
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