Blue Mesa Review 10
Love & Sex

The 21st Century Sex, Love and Death Goddess Jane Caputi
Blood Brothers Wendell Ricketts
Winner, 1997/98 BMR Graduate Student Fiction Writing Contest
On Forgetting MIchelle N. Pierce
Winner, 1997/98 BMR Graduate Student Poetry Writing Contest
Shopping List Cesslie Pharr
you remind me Evelyn Shockley
Nitrogen Joshua Roberts
In The Name Brittney Corrigan
Things to do When the Video Rental Store is Closed
Michael Gregg Michaud
Strawberries Bruce Snider
Nightlights Martha Elizabeth
Hands Joseph Skinner
Ode to Waiting MaryHelen Snyder
Undressing for Rodin MaryHelen Snyder
I Think I Must be Beautiful Because Your Hands MaryHelen Snyder
Natural Disasters Melissa S. Stein
Wood Spirits Melissa S. Stein
A Brief History of Fruit Chris Pusateri
Vaseline Walt McDonald
Honky-Tonk Blues Walt McDonald
The Lady with the Laptop Michael Downs
Embracing the River Matthew Thorburn
The Chimps of Tanganyika Matthew Thorburn
Fantasia, Like the Movie Janice Levy
Who He Thought I Was Traci Paris
First Husband Kim Summers
From the Vagina Nancy Dickinson
Eclectic Bones Gene Keller
Salmon and Carp Gene Keller
Top Ten MAtches: Love Cactus May
After Viewing The Queen of Outer Space (1958) John Bradley
Short Story Elizabeth Varendoe
Laurels Hervena Richter
Love Letter to China Will Barnes
An Introduction to Philosophy S.P. Thomas
Male Machismo Tina E. Matthews
Larry Kramer, Priest of Love Steve Turtell
True Mermaid Story Lara Chetkovitch
A Maze of Mango Trees James Miller Robinson
Carpetbagger Carol Coffee Reposa
Calf Implants Chris Alan Miller
Simon Says Maurya Simon
Winter D. James Smith
It Is D. James Smith
Garlic D. James Smith
The Tattoo Artist Lisa D. Chavez
Geronimo at the World's Fair Lisa D. Chavez
Cowbird Scott Ward
Scare Scott Ward
The Comet Came to Mt. Pollux Marilyn Shelton
Dominica Resurectionis Marilyn Shelton
'Au'a'la Wendell Ricketts
The Way It Happened The Way It Happened Lee Varon
Why the lonely cowboy kicked a hole in the bathroom wall of room 235 at the Budget Inn, Evanston, Wyoming Chris Ransick
Drinking Beer with Lincoln Chris Ransick
The First Roller Coaster (1846) was Tested with Flowers and Eggs
Frank Sauers
Lost in the U.S.A. Iqbal Pittalwala
Bells Phyllis Hoge Thompson
Mexicali Brickmaker's Wife Tamar Diana Wilson de García
The Call Susan Dewitt
Nothing but Good Susan Dewitt
Before I Knew the Word Abuelita Andrea C. Mendoza
Losing Battle Tina E. Matthews
Lunchroom Tina E. Matthews
The Piano Tuner Jo Ann Baldinger
The Lemon Kind of Baseball Alberto Rios
Appointment Houses Alberto Rios
Netleaf Hackberry Robert Burlingame
My Father's Flea Circus Judy Hendon
E.B. White Remembered Carol Coffee Repoza
Ocotillo Patricia Hartz
To The Moon Agustín Maes
Tito the Mambo King Patrick Sylvain
Griffins & Marionettes Patrick Sylvain
Along the Road to Chilpani Jackie Bartley
In the Nursing Home Kim Summers
Call Me Alejandro Carol Lem
The Basics of Writing Jill Talbot
Museum Saloon Jill Talbot
For Hemingway Christ Pusateri
Hunter Ariel Smart
Sopa de Gallina Hugo Rodriguez
El Viejo's Official Statement to the Miami Police Hugo Rodriguez
Autumn Leaves Joseph Somoza
Balance Joseph Somoza
Norms Wasabi Kanastoga
Stolen Blackberries Kathleen Spivack
I Saw the Crow Today Sheila Golburgh Johnson
Washington Circle Sheila Goldburgh Johnson
Report From Boca Raton Jeffrey L. Dye
El Cabrero Gaylord Brewer
The Burden of Fossils IV Gaylord Brewer
Winter: The Upper Peninsula John Gorman
Falling Through Night Sky Nathan Pritts

Review Essay
An Interview with Benjamin Alire Sáenz Bronson Elliott

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction Jeannette E. Riley

Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit Pat Califa

Keepers of the Earth Patricia Anaya

Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line
Anne Foltz

At Cultural Crossroads: Study of a Sculpture Kathy Freise