Shirley Harshenin

THIRTY-SIX STORIES by
EDWARD Mc WHINNEY

Ash
Prayers
Lost
3 Stories: Blue, Friday & Fugitive
Kovacs
Seventeenty
Ghost
A Collapse
Limbo
On A Barge
To Ipswich
Strange birds
If For Days on End
The Hall Porter
After Reading Thomas Bernhard
The Myth of Sisyphus
Beginnings
Little Bird
A Funeral
Forty Nine
Who Do You Want to Be?
The Cat in the Kiosk
Weaver Fish
On Goya Street
No Further Need for Niceties
Locked Out
Conversations in the Tax Office
Incident in a Travel Agent’s
Olaudahs in the Rain
Infidelity, Almost
This House
An Ordinary Day
A Monday Morning
Advice: Get the Farewell Right

TWO DEBUT POETS

Travelogue: Day Before Departure
by Hilary Dobel

Three Poems
by Anna Ralls

TWO FICTION STARS

Vaucluse
by Laura Elizabeth Wollett

My Flickering Self
by Tania Hershman

CONTRARY’S INAUGURAL ISSUE
Autumn 2003