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Issue One

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the Orphan Leaf Review, Issue One
November 2004

The very first issue surpassed all expectations both in quality and breadth.  An eclectic mix of orphan leaves ranging from Shane Allison's powerful A Poem for Matthew Santoni to Andrew Pack's intriguing pastiche the Man Who Was October .

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Oblique Exhibit
"first, then Gull on her side.
     'There she is,' says Piotr, meaning the vast ocean..."
(prose, fiction)
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Ways of Looking at the Polar Bear
"way of looking at the gray polar bear.  Whatever else she was thinking earlier, she knew she had just realized..."
Chrissy Williams (prose, fiction)
 

the Man Who Was October
"and  some do say that he keeps the lower quarters of the submarine stocked well with corned beef, well salted..."
Andrew Pack (prose, fiction)
 
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the Meaning of Heaning
"uncomforatble feeling I acquired early this morning. For once, even Thelonious Monk doesn't help — his music has become just a steady stream..."
Tim Major (prose, fictional autobiography)
 

London Portraits
Jo Valdes (photography)
 
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A Poem for Matthew Santoni
"Matthew Santoni
Sweet boy of North Hampton..."
Shane Allison (poetry)

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I'm No Marlowe
"'And Vick, how's she?' and knew before Sarah answered that was what this lunchtime was really all..."
Stu Bryan (prose, fiction)


Breaking the Skin
"Walk past Metro Drugs where
The items are drastically reduced..."
Shane Allison (poetry)
<Read "Rugged Thug" in full>


the Single Line Quarterly
"Biography of Q. Gordano
An artist tramp creeping drunk round his big house..."
Abi Hirschmann and James Paul Wallis (single lines)


Secret Voices
"missed his friends and spent long hours writing to them.  He had very little desire to tell them about his new life; the..."
Abi Hirschmann (prose, fiction)


Pasadera
(sheet music)
<Read More / Hear a Recording>

 

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Homebuilding
"broke ground on the new house in two thousand and seven, this in late spring when the trees were already grown thick with leaf..."
(prose, fiction)


Professor Habib
"opens the door and leads me up a narrow staircase ..."
Jane Alexander (prose, fiction)


Nicaraguan Cookbook
"Gallo Pinto is a typical Nicaraguan dish which is eaten daily, sometimes for every meal. This is a vegetarian dish, which is so called because it..."
These recipes were taken from SOL’s forthcoming Nicaraguan recipe book. SOL (Swindon Ocotal Link) is a charitable organisation linking the communities of Swindon (England) and Ocotal (Nicaragua). For more information or to order a recipe book please visit www.swindonocotal-link.org


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