Air Fish
editors Joy Oestreicher & Richard Singer
(Catseye Books 0-9631755-2-1, November 1993, $16.95, 320pp, tp, cover by Shaun Tan)
  • xiii • Introduction • Richard Singer & Joy Oestreicher • in
  • 1 • The Ragnarockenroll Overture • Michael Andre-Driussi • ss *
  • 15 • The West Texas Sprouting of Loman Happenstance • Matt Clark • ss *
  • 26 • Down Bound Train • Th. Metzger • ss *
  • 39 • Crows • Pam Burr Smith • vi *
  • 42 • A Whiff of Cat • Mark McLaughlin • pm *
  • 46 • The Olfactory Inversion • Richard Gessner • pm The Ball and Other Micro-Tragedies, Rampike, 1987
  • 47 • Safety In Numbers • Jacie Ragan • ss *
  • 52 • ’Boons • W. Gregory Stewart • ss *
  • 63 • Another Story about Hippos • Rick Henry • vi *
  • 67 • Grovel for Treats • Ronald Anthony Cross • ss *
  • 78 • Ishtar Over Berkeley • John Sullivan • vi *
  • 81 • The Water Man • Ursula Pflug • ss Tesseracts 3, editors Candas Jane Dorsey & Gerry Truscott, Victoria: Press Porcepic, 1990
  • 91 • Spontaneous Human Combustion • Lisa Lepovetsky • pm *
  • 94 • The Stone Badger • Misha • ss Fiction International #20 1991
  • 100 • Cars Swing • Cory Doctorow • ss *
  • 105 • The Smell • Craig A. Strickland • ss *
  • 111 • Bringers of the Dead • Gerard Daniel Houarner • ss *
  • 123 • The Wound • Christopher Woods • vi Asylum v7 #3&4 1992
  • 125 • Alchemical Texts • Bruce Boston • co Mountain View, CA: Ocean View Books, 1985
  • 125 • The Alchemist Is Born in a Sudden Changing of Seasons • Bruce Boston • pm
  • 126 • The Alchemist in Transit • Bruce Boston • pm
  • 127 • The Alchemist Discovers a Universal Solvent • Bruce Boston • pm IASFM December 1984
  • 128 • The Alchemist in Place • Bruce Boston • pm Velocities #4 1884
  • 129 • The Alchemist Takes a Lover in the Infinite Variety of Fire • Bruce Boston • pm Velocities #4 1984
  • 131 • A Thousand Faces • Bruce Boston • pm
  • 132 • Tongues • Bruce Boston • pm
  • 134 • Resumé • Bruce Holland Rogers • vi Asylum Annual, 1992, Asylum Arts, 1992
  • 136 • The Five Year Plan • H. Andrew Lynch • ss EOTU December 1990
  • 145 • Spirit Journey • Sue Storm • ss *
  • 158 • Loopy Is the Inner Ear • Keith Allen Daniels • pm *
  • 161 • Altmann’s Tongue • Brian Evenson • vi The Quarterly #23, Fall 1992
  • 162 • Don’t Reject This!!! • Daveed Gartenstein-Ross • ss *
  • 169 • WORKBOOK
  • 170 • Introduction to a User’s Manual for Suicide • S. C. Hahn • vi *
  • 171 • What Is: Desire Fear Anger Hope Need Illusion • A. B. Emrys • ms *
  • 172 • Murder, Mystery • Bruce Holland Rogers • vi The Quarterly #23, Fall 1992
  • 174 • The Zoo-Brary • Richard Gessner • vi Excerpts from the Diary of a Neanderthal Dilettante & the Man in the Couch, bomb shelter props., 1991
  • 177 • The Square Planet • Raymond Federman • ss Witness Summer/Fall 1989; revised
  • 189 • Twenty Paradigms • Rob Hardin • ms *
  • 191 • Puzzled • Rand’l Griffin • ss *
  • 202 • Concluding Address to the Beheaders’ Convention • S. C. Hahn • vi *
  • 204 • Still Falling • Kurt Giambastiani • ss *
  • 215 • The Untethered • David Memmott • ss *
  • 220 • On Becoming a Fish • David Kopaska-Merkel • pm *
  • 223 • Your Faithful Servant • William Browning Spencer • ss *
  • 233 • Behind the Shaman’s Mask of Leather • t. Winter-Damon • pm The Tome Spring 1992
  • 237 • The Emperor’s Reply • Jeff VanderMeer • ss Magic Realism Summer 1993
  • 244 • Milk’s Mirror • D. F. Lewis • vi *
  • 245 • Old Blood • B. Chepaitis • pm *
  • 250 • The Texture of Stars • Wendy Rathbone • ss *
  • 268 • The Case of Mary Smith • Elsie A. Schmied • ss *
  • 272 • Devourings • Steve Rasnic Tem • vi *
  • 273 • Basement Flats • W. Gregory Stewart & Robert Frazier • pm *
  • 278 • Loving Kansas • Rhonda Eikamp • ss *
  • 285 • Place of Meeting • Cliff Burns • ss Bizarre Bazaar #2 1993
  • 289 • Dream Interpretation with Cows • Stephen R. Roberts • pm Red Dance Floor v1 #3 1991
  • 291 • Sweet Armageddon • John Shirley • ss *
  • 304 • The House of Nails • Adam-Troy Castro • ss *