ISSUE DIEZ Y SEIS

EDITOR'S SCRATCHING POST
Catatonically Speaking

A Note to Clockwise Cat Writers and Artists

FIKSHUN

Fisherman's Splatter by John A. Ward

Bus Ride by Jack Fairlane

New Kid and 3 by Joseph W. Patterson

How Madame Skeeza Bit the Dust Thereby Creating Krala into the Monstrous Mother Kralick by Mark Spitzer

New Moon by Rebecca Nazar

The Iowa Horror by Noah Savage

Betsy's Adventure by Nicholas J. Carter
Ah Bottle by David Mac
Skin!, or When Allegories Attack by Eirik Gumeny
Flash Fiction by Christopher Capelluto
Crash by Jennifer Brown

Magpie by Eric Miller
100% Godfrey by MJ Nicholls
A Poor Player by David Rasey
Le Chat by Christamar Varicella
Confusion of Lines by Brian Edward Bahr

My Dear Mother by Devin Drover

POESIE
Written on the Backs of Speedway Gas Receipts by Grace Curtis
Two poems by John Grey
Caught by Linda Leedy Schneider
4 by Brittany Durk
Three poems by Mark Cunningham
Two poems by David Mac
Victimization by Robert Louis Henry
Three poems by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozobal
blue in august by Carl Kavadlo

Two poems by Changming Yuan
Three poems by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Three poems by Felino Soriano

Dear Citizens of the World by Vibha Batra

Three poems by Constance Stadler
x, marks for spotted owls by Kat Dixon

Three poems by Alan Britt
Three poems by Joan McNerney

There's a Strange Gray Cloud in the Otherwise by Mather Schneider

More Nadir Than Zenith by Joseph Jengehino

Two poems by Christopher Sahms

ablaze by Michael McAloran

Pluto's Friend by Scott Orris

Melting Clocks by June Nandy

Three poems by CL Bledsoe

POLEMIX/SATIRE

Special Mission (Satire) by William Blick

Politically Ill (Satire) by Gil Waters

War is Peace: Obama's REAL Nobel Peace Prize Speech (Satire) by Alison Ross

Serenity's Minimal Requirements (Polemic) by Edwin L. Young

Victory (Satire) by Jon Wesick

Five Passive-Agressive Letters to my Foes (Satire) by Ami

America's Doctors are for Universal Healthcare (Polemic) by Edwin L. Young

Is Zombie Porn the New Frontier? (Satire) by Kane X. Faucher

Being on Bottom (Satire) by Wanda Morrow-Clevenger

Walk a Mile (Polemic) by Sheila Samples

The Riddle for Ages Past and For Ages to Come (Polemic) by Edwin L. Young

The Objectionable Other (Polemic) by Edwin L. Young

If Bozo the Clown Were President (Satire) by Kevin Brown

An Irresistable Force with Insane Rationale (Polemic) by Edwin L. Young

An Exclusive Excerpt From Rod Blagojevich’s Highly Anticipated New Book (Satire) by Thomas Sullivan

ART
Artwork by Diana Magallon and Jeff Crouch

Artwork by Chantel Schott

Unwanted Ads by Jeff Crouch and Christopher Woods

Artwork by Michael Brandonisio

APPRAISALS

Spitting in Your Face: David McLean's laughing at funerals by Wolfgang Carstens (Book Review)

Vagina Monologue: The Second Sex Dissected by Alison Ross (Book Review)
Wolfgan Carstens' crudely mistaken for life by David McLean (Book Review)
The Hurt Oscar by Alison Ross (Film Review)
Invictus, The Movie and Mandela, The Man by Edwin L. Young (Film Review)
Speaking of Love by Alison Ross (Book Review)
The Mythical Masterpiece of the Emaciated Mutt by Alison Ross (CD Review)
Puma Perl's knuckle tattoos by David McLean (Book Review)
Jack Henry's with the Patience of Monuments by Puma Perl (Book Review)
Jack Henry's crunked by David McLean (Book Review)