Shooting the Rat : Stories and Poems by Outstanding High School Writers

by Pawlak, Mark; Lourie, Dick; Schreiber, Ron; Hershon, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781931236232
• ISBN10: 1931236232
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr

Summary

Poetry. Fiction. Top selections from the famous high school section of Hanging Loose magazine.

Table of Contents

Shooting the Rat	17	(21)
Gemma Cooper-Novack
Pears of the World
Pears of the World	21	(1)
Sarah Nooter
On the Corner of Fulton and Liberty	22	(1)
Phoebe Prioleau
Driving Home at Night After Picking Up the Milk	23	(1)
Elizabeth Bear
1920	24	(1)
Katina Antoniades
Poem at a Quarter to Six	25	(1)
Windsock	26	(1)
A 1950s Televised A-Bomb Drill Aired for Educational Purposes	27	(2)
Lauren Brozovich
In the Girls' Dressing Room Before the Gulling of Beatrice Scene in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing	29	(2)
Fida Fida Fida Fida	31	(1)
Keystone
Farmacy	32	(1)
Matthew Moses
Iconography	33	(1)
Julia Kate Jarcho
The Twist of Her Head	34	(1)
Rebecca Givens
Image Retention	35	(2)
Jenny Jones
Destination	37	(1)
Erica Ehrenberg
During This Movie	38	(1)
Rebecca Givens
Vivian	39	(1)
Julia Schaffer
Attire	40	(1)
Ryan Hagan
Four Haiku: Nora/Winter Rocks	41	(1)
Ian Kain Amato
Three Poems: Shoes/Watermelon/Moon	42	(1)
Grace Lorentz
Ode to the Stove	43	(1)
Nadja Blagojevic
Cold Burn	44	(6)
Ben Patton
Poulsbo	50	(1)
Erin Beach
Faculty Christmas Party at Webster Middle School	51	(1)
Christopher Lew
Perception	52	(1)
Karen Emmerich
Field	53	(1)
Samara Adsit Holtz
Outcrop	54	(1)
Matthew Joy
A Poem in the Wave	55	(1)
Residential Whiskey in Hand	56	(1)
Morning Run	57	(1)
The Bicyclers	58	(1)
Alexis Goldberg
Schuylkill Valley Park	59	(1)
Shayna Strom
Casey	60	(3)
Beth Kinderman
A Wing in My Mouth
Lemonade	63	(1)
William Lopez
Missile	64	(1)
Christopher Lew
Journey	65	(1)
Han-Yeh Katharine Lo
East Jordan	66	(1)
David Konieczkowski
Considerations	67	(2)
Jeffrey Chiu
Pineapple Days of Sunshine	69	(1)
Anna Soo-Hoo
The Beginning	70	(1)
Julie Scharper
Revelation	71	(1)
Jessica Bulman
I Lose Constellations in Foreign Cities	72	(1)
Rebecca Givens
The End of Our Manifest Destinies	73	(2)
Bliss	75	(1)
Emma Straub
This Day Was a Poem	76	(2)
Matthew Moses
The Original Gaither Farmhouse	78	(2)
Lauren Brozovich
The Pistachio Dress	80	(2)
Montana Storm	82	(1)
Erica Ehrenberg
After Rumi	83	(1)
Nadja Blagojevic
Amy	84	(1)
William Lopez
Two-Dollar Bills	85	(2)
Matthew Moses
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	87	(2)
Michael Mirer
Big Bang	89	(1)
Ben Lerner
There Is Water Here That Burns	90	(1)
David Konieczkowski
Ma Melts Things, Has an Orgasm	91	(1)
Mike Livshits
Prometheus at Coney Island	92	(2)
Quentin Rowan
High Way	94	(1)
Olivia Ophelia Harman
So Natural	95	(1)
Erin Hoover
As the Child Prodigy Grows Up	96	(2)
Gemma Cooper-Novack
Brambles	98	(1)
William Lopez
The Way She Burned	99	(4)
Sarah Nooter
Tell Them It's a Potato
Rain	103	(1)
Julie Scharper
Aeneas Leaving His Dido	104	(3)
Sarah Nooter
Seven Veils	107	(2)
Sara A. Newland
Regal Concubine	109	(1)
Annie Lee
4.5.199-235 [Exeunt Ophelia and Gertrude]	110	(2)
Rebecca Schonberg
Queen of Hearts	112	(1)
Renada Rutmanis
Letter from the Artist	113	(1)
Rebecca Givens
Picasso's Painting	114	(1)
Picasso Was a Fly	115	(1)
Eric Wubbels
The Voice of Robert Desnos	116	(2)
Kurt Wubbels
(French) Public Transit	118	(1)
Mishima on a Plate	119	(4)
Joey Roth
In My Grandmother's House
In My Grandmother's House	123	(1)
Ben Lerner
Nowhere	124	(5)
Marianna Green
In My Uncle's Kitchen	129	(1)
Phoebe Prioleau
Mother's Ritual	130	(1)
The Duel	131	(1)
Amy Kenna
Regard to My Parents' Weakness	132	(1)
Katie Nichol
Nine Months Before September 4, 1977	133	(1)
Julia Schaffer
What Protects	134	(1)
Samara Adsit Holtz
To My Father	135	(1)
Talia Neffson
Sage	136	(2)
Rina Noolaban
Why I Didn' t Visit the Doctor's Office	138	(1)
Monsoon	139	(2)
Rebecca Ciralsky
In the Basement	141	(1)
Rachel Schwartz
Rental	142	(1)
Jaime Halla
Country	143	(2)
Christopher Lew
North Wind Testament	145	(1)
Ian Demsky
Phone Booth, 10 p.m.	146	(1)
Karen Emmerich
Aftermath	147	(1)
Caitlin Doyle
Is Burning	148	(2)
Mike Livshits
Finding the Body	150	(1)
Sara A. Newland
Dreaming Grandfather's Funeral	151	(1)
Renascence	152	(1)
Marvin	153	(2)
David Konieczkowski
Dear Tony	155	(1)
Erica Magrey
AIDS	156	(1)
Ian Demsky
Jewels	157	(4)
Lucy Cutolo
The Shalimar Diner	161	(4)
Alexis Goldberg
Welcome
Welcome	165	(1)
Susan Currie
Fourteen	166	(1)
Nora Lawrence
Summer at Brooke's	167	(1)
Erin Walsh
Were There Children?	168	(1)
Ian Kain Amato
Morning Thoughts	169	(1)
Momentary Mastication	170	(1)
Alexis Goldberg
The Winter of My Life	171	(1)
Nafeesah Allen
Virgin Rhapsody: Pearls	172	(5)
Inside the City	177	(2)
Amy Kenna
Passage	179	(1)
Alison Stine
Stranger	180	(1)
Revelation	181	(1)
Bruce Morris
Lemons	182	(1)
Mia Alvar
Headlights	183	(1)
Nora Lawrence
One More Page in Insincerity	184	(1)
Lauren Argintar
Finding the Sky	185	(3)
Vanessa Kogan
Four Pieces of Transition	188	(2)
Jesse Dalbacka
When the Woman Is Contemporary, and the Kitchen Belongs to Someone Else	190	(1)
Perfect Pitch	191	(1)
Jeffrey Chiu
Tory Sitting on a Couch in a Coffee Shop on the Corner of Ninth Street and Avenue A	192	(2)
Alexis Goldberg
Poised	194	(1)
Emily Parker
Dead Moths	195	(2)
Jessica Bulman
Bright Snow Cold	197	(1)
Mark Tanno
Chestnut	198	(2)
Jenny Jones
Millstone	200	(1)
Core	201	(1)
Caroline Hagood
Petal	202	(1)
Lindsay Washick
I Had to Stop	203	(2)
Alexis Goldberg
Witch	205	(7)
Beth Herskovits
Jake	212	(1)
Emily Carmichael
Assembling Bodies	213	(1)
Amara Dante Verone
Boxing the Female	214	(2)
Natasha Le Bel
Foot Fire Burn Dance	216	(3)
Figure It Out
Figure It Out	219	(1)
Drew Tarlow
Sex	220	(1)
Rebecca Alston Milkman
The Glimmerer	221	(1)
Julia Kate Jarcho
Heat	222	(1)
Deborah Stein
A Hustler Leaves at Dawn	223	(1)
Philip Clark
Rain	224	(1)
Drew Krewer
Porn	225	(6)
Gemma Cooper-Novack
Crush	231	(1)
Bob Meyer
Sunday Night	232	(1)
Lindsay Washick
There Is a Girl in the Cafeteria	233	(1)
Dan Gruenberg
Kite	234	(1)
Shannon Hughes
Fingerprints	235	(1)
Alexis Kielb
Cold	236	(1)
Caroline Hagood
NC17	237	(1)
Sharon Zetter
The Octopus	238	(1)
Rebecca Ciralsky
For Dan	239	(1)
Jennifer Bonhomme
After She Was a Girl	240	(1)
Amara Dante Verona
Summer Crush	241	(1)
Sasha Haines-Stiles
Circuitry	242	(1)
Samara Adsit Holtz
Our Mercurial Bodies Make Their Own Grief	243	(2)
Rib	245	(1)
Sasha Haines-Stiles
The Spoon	246	(1)
Julia Cohen
Marrow	247	(1)
Zoe Konovalov
Leave-Taking	248	(1)
Karen Emmerich
Letter to a Ghetto Boy Three Thousand Miles Away	249	(1)
Annie Lee
Confessions from Gilcrease	250	(1)
Elizabeth Bear
Three Notes on a Kitchen Table	251	(1)
Jeffrey Chiu
Serendipity, I Thought	252	(1)
Ryan Hagan
Picayunes	253	(1)
Michael Casper
Youthful Gods Flirting	254	(2)
Grace Lorentz
The First Time	256	(1)
Erica Magrey
Unearned Chance	257	(1)
Deborah Stein
Laundry Day	258	(2)
Elizabeth Hazen
Expert	260	(1)
Nadja Blagojevic
Wrist	261	(1)
Annie Lee
Ginger Ale	262	(1)
Jaime Halla
Driving Miss Daisy: PG13	263	(1)
Julia Schaffer
The Zipper	264	(1)
Drew Krewer
Notes on Contributors	265