BLUE LAKE REVIEW -- MAY 2013
Fiction
Hunters and the Hunted
Afghanistan Trilogy
In the Company of Crows
Matt
A Monkey's Nephew
Beautiful Raven
Poetry
Recess, Science, Social Studies
Village Roots Community Garden
Early Morning Train
The Loveless Marriage
Two by Sandi-Michelle Thompson
Essays
Primal Screaming
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Prior Issues
APRIL 2013
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Fiction
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Fog Music, 1981
To Hold
Shadows of Ourselves
Expiation
And I Asked the Gypsy
The Sour Smell of Pain
The Clock
Poetry
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Two by Lori Lamothe
City Morning
Tuscany
Oblivion
untitled
On Admitting my Mother to the Nursing Home
Two by Sandi-Michelle Thompson
Contributors
MARCH 2013
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Fiction
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Paris on Passyunk Avenue
Ferris Wheel
No Pancakes
Blood and Rain
Eye Contact
Ships Passing in the Night
Poetry
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Who will come to save me now?
2 by Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue
To Myself
The Resort
The Oracle
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2013
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Fiction
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Sweet the Sound
One Oh for Tillie
Crisis Hotline
Dirty Old Man
Lost Dog
Now and Then
Poetry
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Mother Approaches the Border
Knife in a Small Room
We sleep like snakes,
merciful darkness
I'd Like to Be
Contributors
JANUARY 2013
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Fiction
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A Wide Day
Counting Proper
The Fire Next Time
Quotes
It's All Very Satisfying
Rain Check
Poetry
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If I Had Known
The Harvard Moon Does Not Shine
South Side, Chicago Town Whore
Korea
Meditation
Contributors
DECEMBER 2012
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Fiction
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Two Victims
Liberty Turns
New Balance
Zora: Hysteria or Histamine? -- A Case Study
Poetry
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questions to the panel from don henley
Tainted Whore
A Ribboned Road Trip Through Wrong
tradition
Fetal on the Floor
Revelation at Supper
Two Hands
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2012
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Fiction
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The Stranger's Constellations
Criminals
In the Beginning
The Night Office
Alice
Poetry
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As I Lay Dying
At a Table
From "Pink Umbrellas"
The Asylum Walls
8
Faith
The Far Side of Heaven
Contributors
OCTOBER 2012
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Fiction
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Fly to the Moon, Amigo?
Butchie's Pecans
A Drop of Cruelty
The Long Drive Home
Cuppa Soup
Poetry
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Disembarking
Alter Ego
Prism
Sunday, 4:14 a.m.
This Poems Needs a Refrain
And tomorrow
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2012
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Fiction
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Girl, Too
Liberator
Fantasy Football and the Mistake of Unity
In the 100th Year of the War
Lying About Mustaches
Plans
Poetry
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tree
No Gin in my Ginsberg
The Back Field
Fullness of being (identity theft)
Quick, before
You Might Not Think This Story's Important Now, But
Contributors
AUGUST 2012
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Fiction
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High Noon
Veterans' Day
Flying to a New City
Habits
Average Joel
Winter Popsicles
Poetry
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Thoughts of a Woman in a Black Dress in the Park
Two Poems by Barbara Brooks
setting sun
Aftermath: A Photographic Exhibit of Female Survivors of the Genocide Against the Tutsis in Rwanda
Envy
Yes
Essays
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Bin Laden is Dead
Meredith
Contributors
JULY 2012
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Fiction
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Hand Upon the Brow
Shama and the Ghost
Are You Ready Now?
Bar Harbor
The World's First Literary Fade-Out Ending
Poetry
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When They Used to Call Me Heartbreaker
Sandinista Homes
Two by Crawdad Nelson
Stem
Essays
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Fossilized
Equemen, Men in Spanx and Other Advancements
Contributors
JUNE 2012
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Fiction
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That Morning Sun Comes Rising Up
This Is My Montauk
A Face to Die For
Flashback
Waiting for Annie
Poetry
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Fool
Starbucks
2 by Gregory Gunn
Pursuit
2 by Joey Nicoletti
2 by Matthew Woodman
Untitled
Essays
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On Reactionary Thug Rap, and the Black Lumpenproletariat
Contributors
MAY 2012
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Fiction
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The Bread Machine
Late September
Pigtails
Maybe Tomorrow
Goodbye Green and White
Poetry
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Emerald
I Brew in Broth
Elegy
I'm Getting My Act Together
21st day after
untitled
2 by David M. Pitchford
Contributors
APRIL 2012
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Fiction
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All the Places to Hide
Grey Matter
Hopelessly Sane
Properties
The Gate Keepers of Kosovo
Poetry
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Thunderstorm
Two by Jeff Burt
Meet Me at Barney's
Two by Sarah Rehfeldt
Two by Mary Shanley
Contributors
MARCH 2012
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Fiction
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Housekeeping
Rowing the Beach to Shore
Fast Trains
Butterflies
Dogman
Poetry
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Bowl of Petunias
Mystic Dawn
Two by Kenneth P. Gurney
Looking for the soul bone
Essays
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Shadows on the Wall
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2012
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Fiction
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Saving Aisha's Spiders
Three Vignettes
Bird Lady
Honoring Mike
My Brother Never Came Home
Poetry
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Wanted
PreHistoric
Thumbtacks
Peripeteia
Beside Her
Essays/Editorials
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Oh Brother
Contributors
JANUARY 2012
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Fiction
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Red
The Photographer
All Broke
This is Not a Romance
Ulysses in Old Cairo
Patina
Poetry
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Five Thousand Days
Loving You
Through Silence
American Happiness
Unidentified Female Outcry
Contributors
DECEMBER 2011
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Fiction
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Sad Lucretia
Corpus Christi
The Birthday Present
The Ice
Things About Callie
Poetry
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The Collector
Blue Tapestries
Beyond Your Yard
Chief Lake
Quilted
A thousand twangling instruments
Essays/Editorials
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The Tao of Flitcraft: Some Thoughts on the Ancient Art of the Near-Death Experience
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2011
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Fiction
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Evolution, Accelerated
Over
Paradise
Opportunity
Friction
Poetry
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The melting pot
When the water recedes
Request of a Manchu King
Cleaning the Kids' Room
Naked Ballerinas in Flight: Dream of a Dancer in Six Acts
Contributors
OCTOBER 2011
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Fiction
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Goose, it's a Danger Zone
The Plot
Bingo Man
Settling for a Continental Breakfast
Scene of the Crime
Poetry
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Five by Lyn Lifshin
Two by Bruce Lader
Two by Chris Crittenden
Two by Doug Draime
I Forget Your Name -- Benjamin Larsen
Contributors
SEPTEMBER 2011
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Fiction
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Two Characters Caught up in Chapel Town
Writer in Residence
Crossing the River Acheron
Another to the Multitude
Poetry
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Four by Lyn Lifshin
The Sadness of Gardens
Two by Corey Mesler
Three by Joan McNerney
Three by Janeen Rastall
Essays
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Missing in America
Contributors
AUGUST 2011
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Fiction
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Lake Effect
Bars
To Create Such a Thing
Esopus
Space For Rent
Poetry
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Five by Lyn Lifshin
Frankenstein by Clinton Van Inman
Paper pigeon by James H Duncan
Two by Caroline Misner
Song for a Massachussetts Fish by Amit Parmessur
Contributors
JULY 2011
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Fiction
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To a Dreamer, Night's the Only Time of Day
Heartbeat in Shadow
True Bee
Taking Care of Business
Billy Burroughs' Prediction
Poetry
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Two by Charlie Hughes
Two by Jim Davis
The Light Finding his Way
Two by John Repp
Meadows in Vermont
Contributors
JUNE 2011
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Fiction
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Do I Call You Dad?
The Manicurist
Silver Bells and Tiny White Lights
Luv (Summer of 1988)
Weird Sister
Poetry
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Three by Simon Perchik
Fish Eyes
Two by Corey Mesler
Two by Amy Billone
Contributors
MAY 2011
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Fiction
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Young Mr. Moyen
Grace
Cal's Last Call
Happy Times
Scar
Poetry
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2 by Lyn Lifshin
Dream of Fitchers Fogel
Speech as Flight
Menage a Trois
2 by Danielle Hanson
Negotiating
Be Still and Know
Lynn of the Tender Locks and Lovers
Contributors
APRIL 2011
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Fiction
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Tom and Marian
Home From the Dead
Bread and Coffee and Cigarettes
Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Poetry
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Where she saw God.
St. Jude's Guilt
2 by JohnTustin
2 by Lyn Lifshin
Inside Herself
Poem #27
Everlasting Life
On Frozen Ground
Contributors
MARCH 2011
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Fiction
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Suite Populaire Americaine
The Best Part of the Day
Discarding the Remains
The Dead River
Fifty Dollar Legs
Poetry
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Following the Thread
Good Morning in the Woods
Unveiling the Mind
Two by Henry 7. Reneau, Jr.
dandelions
Waiting for the Cops and After
Two by Britney Lipton
Contributors
FEBRUARY 2011
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Fiction
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Remember My Name
The Sky Over Virginia Beach
Waiting
The First Thing an Artist Should Learn (excerpt for ORGASMO)
The Campfire
Excerpt from THE VIRTUAL LIFE OF FIZZY OCEANS
Poetry
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On the Back Page
Midwest Metamorph
Neo-Platonic Mysteries
Some Information to Start With
3 by Judith Dickerson-Nelson
2 by Lynn Lifshin
Becoming a Man
Contributors
JANUARY 2011
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Fiction
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Small World
Disconnected
Ashes
Thin
Buried Things
Poetry
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Drifting
Cannonballs and Flowers
the earth stands
Nails in My Hair
Consignment
I/You/Her
Rafting the Middle Fork of the Salmon River
A Random Act of Kindness
The Quarter-Century Visit
Asking For It
Contributors
DECEMBER 2010
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Fiction
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Micah Unmapped
Half Groundhog
Esther and Virginia
Bear Country Discomfort
Inventing Aster
The Answer Man
Poetry
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Ursa Rumba
Geologic or Painterly Stasis
Unusual Lover
Through Blue Indiangrass
After The Storm
Ghosts, an Outdoor Cafe
Weekday Painter
Approbations 731; Approbations 732; Approbations 733
Contributors
NOVEMBER 2010
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Fiction
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Touch and Go
Le Caprice
Things That Never Come
Grandma,
Judith
The Young Man Who Said He'd Never Eat Chocolate Again
Essays/Editorials
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What Level Destruction
Poetry
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Planting the Sacred Turnip
Trespassing Fondly Enough
Good Morning Gulliver
Issue 79 - The Silver Surfer
People Who Live Above Stores
Lemon Underwear
Twenty Years of "Nobility of Blood"
Plague of Frogs
War Story # 116: Tom Brady Look-Alike
Hiroshige: Near Komakata
After Reading the Master I Stay Inside
Contributors
OCTOBER 2010
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Fiction
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Big Alabama and the New Girl
We Measure All This Distance in Longing
A Dedicated Customer
In Search of the Perfect Former Communist Beach Town
Dinner Party
Poetry
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Bedlam
It Doesn't Matter What People Think
Bingo
Anniversary Poem
Small Italian Town Embraces Wind Power
The Tetons
Empty Your Pockets
Burst Mode
If Only a Thousand Heartbeats
Empty Boats
On Writing an Obituary
Kansas
Mexican Street Children
Essays/Editorials
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Letters to Nonexistent Editors
Contributors
ESSAYS/EDITORIALS
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