Issue 138
Summer & Fall 2010
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Welcome to the debut issue of TriQuarterly Online. After a distinguished history as an international literary magazine, this university-sponsored print journal, which has been edited by Charles Newman, Elliott Anderson, Reginald Gibbons, and Susan Hahn, now launches in electronic form. You'll find outstanding new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, plus book reviews, interviews, commentary, and a lively blog. The electronic format also allows us to present work from TriQuarterly's extensive print archives. We hope you enjoy this new form of what has been one of the premier literary journals of the nation, and we look forward to receiving your comments and responses on our blog.
Faculty Advisers: Gina Frangello, Susan Harris
Managing Editor: Cheryl Reed
Technical Adviser: Matt Wood
Copy Editor: A. C. Parker
Staff: Charles Berret, Danielle Burhop, Aaron DeLee, Tedd Hawks, Julianne Hill, Sarah Jenkins, Mimi Nguyen, Dana Norris, Hana Park, Lana Rakhman, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran, Gina Vozenilek, Jeremy Wilson, Whitney Youngs, Nate Zoba
Five Shorts
What Hair Does
“I’d trust Jane with a pair of scissors . . .” I was cross-legged on the vanity bench aiming to slingshot my mother with a garter belt.
She looked up from the sewing machine and peered over the top of her bifocals. She had on a stretched-out, once-white bra, and a dainty roll of pale freckled skin lopped over the waistband of her half-slip. “You’d let anyone with a rusty kitchen knife and a DustBuster at your hair! Thank god those bangs have grown out.”