2004 Backwards City Review Contents

Novelettes

• "Speeding Away", Adam Berlin (Fall 2004)

Short Stories

• "Local News", Alix Ohlin (Fall 2004)
• "Results for Novice Males", Michael Parker (Fall 2004)

Poems

• "How to Create Your Own Amnesia", Erica Bernheim (Fall 2004)
• "Summer Crookneck", Erica Bernheim (Fall 2004)
• "from Secured against Hares", Johannes Goransson (Fall 2004)
• "Membrane", Arielle Greenberg (Fall 2004)
• "On a Return to Being a Polemic against Light Verse", Arielle Greenberg (Fall 2004)
• "Policy", Gabriel Gudding (Fall 2004)
• "Religion", Gabriel Gudding (Fall 2004)
• "Poem in Which I Seek Consoloation in the Etymology of a Word", Paul Guest (Fall 2004)
• "Victoria's Secret", Paul Guest (Fall 2004)
• "DIY Foot Washing", Kristin Hall (Fall 2004)
• "The Flight Area", Kristin Hall (Fall 2004)
• "Poetry Blogs in Zurich", Kent Johnson (Fall 2004)
• "Gadabout", John Latta (Fall 2004)
• "Umbrage", John Latta (Fall 2004)
• "What Prayer Is", Sarah Manguso (Fall 2004)
• "Architectural Digest", Joyelle McSweeney (Fall 2004)
• "The Great White Fleet", Joyelle McSweeney (Fall 2004)
• "Demerol Chillout", K. Silem Mohammad (Fall 2004)
• "They Call My Car Illegal", K. Silem Mohammad (Fall 2004)
• "Circumstantial", Ander Monson (Fall 2004)
• "Me v. January", Ander Monson (Fall 2004)
• "Eviction", Karri Harrison Paul (Fall 2004)
• "If You've Got Something to Say, Then Say It", Marcus Slease (Fall 2004)
• "from Complex Sleep", Tony Tost (Fall 2004)
• "Sex ('Is that right, Dr. Kinsey? Doc, we're talking')", Greg Williamson (Fall 2004)
• "Sex ('Right then, some words on Procreationist Science')", Greg Williamson (Fall 2004)

Excerpts from other works

• "Excerpt from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town", Cory Doctorow (Fall 2004)

Non-Fiction

• "Alfred Whitehead Is Alive and Well in Corpus Christi, Texas", Stephen Kuusisto (Fall 2004)
• "Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?", Kurt Vonnegut (Fall 2004)