Issue 23 Contributors

Perigee is pleased to announce the work which will appear in our upcoming 23rd issue, due out January 15th. It's going to be another watershed issue for us, with an extra large fiction section (9 stories), a handful of meticulously chosen poems (6, from about 300), three reviews, an interview, and 5 memoirs which will haunt and inspire you.

Issue 23 also features the watercolor paintings of Derek McCrea, a US Army Infantry Combat Soldier with two tours in Iraq with the 3rd Infantry Division, who has been painting since the summer of 1984.

Our thanks to all who submitted work—that which we've chosen to publish and the many other notable submissions which didn't make the final cut. We hope you will keep gracing us with the kind of submissions which make Perigee's corner of the Internet a warm one.

Fiction:
"Pretty When She Was Young," by Camilla Collova
"Gingerbread," by Jeannie Galeazzi
"The Overlook," by Ethan Joella
"A Pretty Face," by Marisa Labozzetta
"Compulsion," by Brendan McEntee
"Ten Dollars for Live Ones," by Michael Onofrey
"The Sound One Hears," by Bruce Rutherford
"The Storekeeper," by Tom Sheehan
"Orion," by Dennis Vannatta

Poetry:
"Having No Children," by Ann Cefola
"At Rexall's," by John Dutterer
"Umbrella," by Paul Hostovsky
"Plate Sharing," by Ethan Joella
"Omission," by Tony Leuzzi
"Lookout on Perdition Ridge," by Ann Walters

Memoirs:
"Loneliness Goes for Distance," by Garry Cooper
"Letting Go," by Joel Harris
"The Last Punch," by Randy Kohl
"Book," by Richard Reiss
"Darkness and Insanity," by Andrea Rosenhaft

Interview:
"An Interview with Jack Marshall," by Sam Hamod

Reviews:
"Global Psychology, by Benjamin Katz," reviewed by Thomas E. Kennedy
"Katherine's Wish, by Linda Lappin," reviewed by R.A. Rycraft
"Speaking for Others: The Poetry of Sam Hamod," by Kristen Scott

Visual Art:
Featuring watercolors by Derek McCrea