Best of the Net 2008  
F I C T I O N Teju Cole's "Modern Girls" from Qarrtsiluni Barry Jay Kaplan's "His Wife" from Apple Valley Review Christopher Lowe's "A Pattern of Chaos" from Fiction Weekly Jill McCorkle's "Magic Words" from Narrative Magazine Wayne Shannon's "Sin Nombre" from blossombones P O E T R Y Pat Daneman's "Thanksgiving" from Apple Valley Review Deborah DeNicola's "The Bacchanalia of Trash" from The Externalist Jehanne Dubrow's "A Brief Ontology of Guilt" from Mezzo Cammin Jehanne Dubrow's "The Amber Brooch" from Mezzo Cammin Patrick Ryan Frank's "Virginitiphobia" from The Boxcar Poetry Review Rob Hardy's "Jane Austen's Toes" from Apple Valley Review Mary Crockett Hill's "Newton’s Cradle" from Juked Paul Hostovsky's "To A Motion Activated Paper Towel Dispenser" from Thick With Conviction Youna Kwak's "Petal" from Left Facing Bird Amy Fetzer Larakers's "It begins in anise and ends in Asheville" from blossombones Diane Lockward's "Idiosyncrasies of the Body" from Rattle Clay Matthews's "Poem in Which I Sort of Break Down" from No Tell Motel Jeff Newberry's "Deep, Like Blood" from Memorious Susan Slaviero's "The Noir Wife" from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal Maggie Smith's "Manic Panic" from failbetter Cheryl Snell's "Fire on the Cuyahoga" from Juked Lafayette Wattles's "Sometimes a Deer is Just a Deer" from The Boxcar Poetry Review