The Writing Disorder - A Literary Journal

S PRING forward. The Writing Disorder is now in its third year. And every issue gets better and better. We now feature novel excerpts. If you're working on a novel with a self- contained chapter, send it to us. This issue features some very talented writers. The stories and poems collected here are some of the finest we've read. So enjoy the work. —C.E. Lukather, Editor

IN THIS ISSUE: NEW FICTION
THE PUZZLE by Eliezra Schaffzin
MRS. MacMILLAN'S GARDEN by Melissa Palmer
DEEP TISSUE by Pamela Lindsey Dreizen
THE LOCAVORE'S TALE by Claire Noonan
IT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED IN NIAGARA
by Ben Orlando

NEW INTERVIEW
Author of new Thomas Pynchon book, DAVID COWART

NEW POETRY
EQUINOX by Gale Acuff
NECESSARY PARTS by Susan King
JUNG'S POETRY by Ivy Page

NEW NONFICTION
HIPSTERS:
A SPECIAL SPIRITUALITY
by Lily Murphy

NEW PAINTINGS
PLANETARY CLIMATE
by Leonard Kogan

NEW FICTION
A GRIM, DARK BAR by Joe Kilgore
MASTER OF NONE by Francis Chung
SUPER COOL FUN SET
by Kevin Ridgeway
ATLANTIC CITY, 1980
by Karoline Barrett

NEW POETRY
LOTOPHAGI by Sonali Gurpur
THE DITCH by Holly Day

NEW NOVEL EXCERPT
THE ALLIGATOR POND
by G.L. Williams

NEW MEMOIR EXCERPT
DEMONS
by Henry F. Tonn

NEW ARTWORK
D'OGOERECTUS
by Orlin Oroschakoff
DEATH BY ACTION ICON
by Chad Kaplan