2009 Issue

The Manatee came back in its second year even bigger, badder, and weirder. Twenty-five student contributors, ten editors, and three artists came together to produce this issue, and the result is 131 pages packed with awesome, disturbing, funny, sad, mysterious stories, poems, essays, and photos. It includes but is not limited to the following phrases: "She has the best shirt potatoes I have ever seen," "Boneless, Homeless, and Friendly," "Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc, pan-dimensional devourer of galaxies," "many older crones did I attract," "sp4rked a phat blunt," and "I am determined to slice off the part of me that makes me a man." You'll just have to read it if you want to get your head around those.
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Contents
- Mayra Gomez - Calculated (story)
- Alicia Beane - The Only Beautiful Thing (poem)
- Amanda Walley - Days of Summer (photo)
- Kevin Woods - The Old Man (story)
- Joshua Dick - Breathing (flash fiction)
- Mckendy Fils-Aimé - Bullies (poem)
- Myriam Labbe - Dissonance (story)
- Alicia Beane - Thumbelina's View (photo)
- Heidi Cruz - Flame (story)
- Cassandra Levesque - Blizzard (poem)
- Michael Roscoe - I Hate Your Blog (blog entry)
- Melissa Hurley - Cold Chai (story)
- Melissa Ngai - Old Ladies Keep Hitting on Me (and it sucks >_<) (poem)
- Alicia Beane - Thursday (story)
- Feroz Ilyas - Phone (photo)
- Ian Nicholas - Go the Extra Mile (biography)
- Kimberly McLaughlin - Loki's Trickery (poem)
- Mckendy Fils-Aimé - Heritage (poem)
- Shelly Petry - Graves (photo)
- Susan Kovach - Say Goodbye (story)
- Grant Herleikson - Imaginary Book of Short Stories (table of contents)
- Mayra Gomez - American Deviant (story)
- Nicole Escobar - The Dolls (flash fiction)
- Shelly Petry - Magnolia (photo)
- Joshua Dick - Common Grounds (flash fiction)
- Tara Junkins - Facing Reality (story)
- Nicole Doane - No Longer Them (flash fiction)
- Feroz Ilyas - Shoe (photo)
- Ashley Fandrich - I'm Sorry (poem)
- Vincent Casciato - Say Goodbye to Hollywood (essay)
- Heidi Cruz - Come My Sweetheart (poem)
- Melissa Falcucci - Forever (story)
- Alicia Beane - Crooked Path (photo)
- Kimberly McLaughlin - Butterflies (poem)
- Kevin Woods - Keep Moving (story)
- Mckendy Fils-Aimé - The Grief of Judas Iscariot (poem)
- Kimberly McLaughlin - Yar (photo)
- Alicia Beane - One Beautiful Wave (poem)
- Shelly Petry - Cherry Blossom (photo)
- Dillon St. Jean - Catapultboy (story)