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Romance
by Ruth A. Rouff

Recently I was walking through “Bargain Book Warehouse,” a store filled with discounted books located in a nearby strip mall. The books were publisher’s overstocks: the unwanted step-children of the publishing industry. When I passed by the tables heavily laden with discounted paperback romances, I recalled how I used to heave armfuls of these books into stinking trash compactors in Kmarts throughout southern New Jersey. ...
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The Possibility of Her Parents’
Dismay Was the Cost of Privacy

by Kunle Abodunde
But Julia said her parents weren’t surprised at all when she explained to them that we’d moved in together. Once told, they invited us, as a couple, to meet them in Great Neck. Julia assured me that the invitation had been made with the best of intentions, that spirits were high, and retribution was the furthest thing from anyone’s mind....

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Blad Estevez
by Joseph M. Ditta
Now, a young man of twenty years, Blad Estevez is prowling the streets of Rockville Center, where he has just stepped off the bus.  He has left his old neighborhood in Freeport and with it his old way of life in order to find the justice for which he thirsts or, in the last extremity, to assail the injustice he expects....
  
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The Summer of Huffing Glue
by Jamey Gallagher

The National Guard was helping nurses and doctors wheel patients out to waiting buses. Above them, the sky was a purple mountainscape. The rain had momentarily let up, but floodwater already covered our ankles. Mrs. Grueller cupped a cigarette in her hand, exhaling smoke through her nostrils....

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Stone Song
by Mark Jacobs

It began in Delhi. It began with admiration, an impulse Cordelia no longer expected to feel. Early, east sun rising, from her room on the fifth floor at the Oberoi she stood watching a woman with an elegant long back do laps in the green pool. Such unthinking confidence in her strokes. With a body that worked so splendidly who needed mind? Cordelia basked in the woman’s visible vigor. When she sat, it was in the wheelchair....

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Kilauea
by Kori Frazier Morgan

Karen did not want to go to Hawaii.  Their parents made her.  She was a nursing student at Kent State, on her way to spend a weekend with her ex-fiancé Steven, who had been in Vietnam for a year, who did not know yet that he was her ex-fiancé.  For the last six months, she'd been trying to find the right way to break up with him, though her options were limited—a letter to Binh Phuoc, an abrupt change in subject during his brief, infrequent telephone calls....

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Aftertaste
by Tushar Rai

There was no aftertaste. No lingering sense of smell either. Maanas sighed. His torso fell back as if it had got bored of the constant need of a perfect straight posture. There was almost never a slouch in his gait. Whenever his urge for sitting at ease tried to manifest itself, an elusive neuron of his unsuspecting mind would bring forth words of his mother:...

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Crooners and Guilt
by Bob Skoggins
Charles could see his father peeking out the window as he walked up to the porch. Wade was waiting for him and opened the door before his son could knock. The house was messy. There were bags, wrappers, and napkins all over the coffee table. Different colored stains covered the couch. In the corner were stacks of records. Charles wouldn’t have been surprised to see a goat in the corner. …

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The Howls behind the Waves
by Richie Swanson
I knew my mom died having me, but Auntie never said anything about my dad, and I about hoped out my heart, hoofing it beside the surf, expecting a letter from him.  Every day the mail was due, I climbed Na’ah Rock and looked up the beach, waiting for Johnny Pederson to come around Nesika Head, and that’s why Otter Jack called me Puffin Ellie instead of Jean Ellie. 

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New Room
by Michael Welch
Rick recalled the moment he suggested to Amanda that they move in together, pulling her tight in the clutter of their friends Hosea and Lila’s kitchen, the hard morning light falling upon the piled, maculated dishes, a thin swinging door away from the uneven bursts of laughter, the noon party in honor of baby Che’s first step.  ...

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Dusan Colovic:
Not Showing the Direction,
Silent

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Colin Dodds:
The Labyrinth in the Third Millennium,
The New York Ouroboros,
Within Immense Luck,
The Forests Turn to Information

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Michael Estabrook:
Serious Sensory Overload:another fun
summer vacation at the beach,
”I married you anyway.” ,
Horseshoe Crab

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Mitchell Krochmalnik Grabois:
Sleep Apnea and Incontinence,
In the Master's Bed,
Buying Bitter Hatred

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Jennifer Lagier:
Peaches and Camille, Post Pinot Noir;
Transformative;
Humidity

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Ben Nardolilli:
8/6/1945,
Through a Wall,
By the Road

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The Cigar Box
by Sy Roth

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Raj Sharma:
Autumn Tones,
The Seed,
On Havelock Island (India)
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Steven Ray Smith:
Trialogues,
The house across the street,
Inside the Balloon

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Barry Spacks:
Dream-Masters,
On a Photograph by Barbara Parmet,
Trumpet Vine

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Jason Visconti:
The Epitaph I Scrawled in Kindergarten,
The Wake,
The Oath

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Allen Qing Yuan:
Wintertime Wildly High,
Komodo Monitor,
Spring Slumber

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Winter/Spring 2013 Issue of SNReview (SNR) ISSN: 1527-344X--SNReview (SNR) is a literary journal of short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry, founded in 1999. Member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Academy of American Poets (AAP). This work, meaning SNReview.org, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.