We changed this year. New look. New format. We’ve been publishing columns, comics, and non-fiction all year, but now it’s time for the poetry and prose to explode from our virtual pages. This is the first of three Defenestration issues that will appear this year, and it’s ten kinds of excellent. We recieved a lot of great submissions during our first reading period, and we chose the best of the best.

I don’t want to say that this issue “has it all,” but it’s pretty damn close. You could go down your internal list of Awesome Things and find a good chunk of them here. This issue has monkeys and robots and ghosts. A Norse god. A faerie queen. Love. Sex. Amusing typographical errors. And a few ducks thrown in for good measure. If you’re not pissing yourself with anticipation, then you’ve come to the wrong place–The Magazine Full of Lame Crap No One Wants to Read is three doors down and full of dorks.

You can explore the April 2010 issue of Defenestration from our front page, or you can follow the links below. This issue is also available as a free downloadable .pdf file that you can take with you or print of do whatever it is you do with one of these things.

And starting today, we are once again open to poetry and short story submissions. We’re reading for our August 20th issue. This reading period ends August 5th. Send us your best!

—Andrew Kaye, Editor-in-Chief

Table of Contents

Poetry:

David W. Landrum, Two Poems

Steve De France, Two Poems

Danny Adams, Two Poems

Laura Garrison, “Downy Nights”

Short Stories:

Gabe Durham, “Film 401 – Robotic Pitfalls in Contemporary Cinema”

Phoebe Nir, “My Favorite Thing”

Josh Peterson, “An Infinite Amount of Monkeys”

Mark A. Rayner, “Rebranding Thor”

Chris Tarry, “City Hall”

Jeromy Henry, “The Really Serious, Angst-Filled, Dark Story”

Nathan Pensky, “Jacques Derrida Strikes Again!”

Micah Cratty, “A Completely Voluntary Letter of Recommendation for Robot Model TX-9”

Downloadable Copy:

Defenestration, April 2010

Follow the above link to view the entire October 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following, some of which may be NSFW:

Poetry:

Allison McVety, “Bloodline”

Daniel Gallik, “My Wife’s Marriage, Defined In Third Person”

J.D. Fuller, Two Poems

J.D. Nelson, Two Poems

Michael Internicola, Two Poems

Prose:

Benjamin Graber, “Camels Light but Unfiltered”

Alison Burke, “Hot Summer Hippie Love

Greg Richard Bernard, “Hindsight”

J.M. Becker, “ The Mystery of Michael Landon and the Destiny of Jon”

J.R. Salling, “The Six Beards of Henry VIII”

Martin Green, “Advice on the Debate”

Todd Werkhoven, “Please Don’t Make Me Shower”

Visuals:

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Daniel Willingham, “Man vs. Nature”

Jerry Rychlo, A Comic

Ricky Garni, “The Pressures of the Office”

Follow the above link to view the entire September 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following, some of which may be NSFW:

Poetry:

Bryan Thao Worra, Two Poems

Cindy Puzak, “White Trash Lament”

J.D. Nelson, Three Poems

K.T. May, “Misguided Haikus”

Karen Ashburner, “What The Freudians Need More Than Anything Else Is To Acquire One Or Two Poet-Minded Interpreters”

Prose:

Alex Keegan, “Deborah Tavistock’s Problem”

Allison McVety, “Boys Own Club”

Antony Davies, “The Day Death Missed The Bus”

Mike Fowler, “A Brief History of Machismo, With Attention to the Male Mystique”

Nathan Graziano, “Pete And My Peter”

Ross Eldridge, “The Brightest Invention Under Heaven”

Vanessa Gebbie, “A Ride For Miss M”

Visuals:

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Elise Ure, “The Art of Ass Talking”

Valerie, “Boozin’ Monkeys Are Awesome”

Follow the above link to view the entire August 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following:

Poetry:

Bentley Snow Davis, “Overeducated, Underemployed”

John Bryan, “when I am a hundred”

John Tiong Chunghoo, Some Senyru Poems

Richard Gibson, “Scurrilous Poetry”

Prose:

Adam McGrath, “Resignation”

Alex Keegan, “Riot at Halifax Town Hall”

Brendan Bouffler, “The Café Latte Guide to Bad Karma”

Jose Tungol, “Four Possible Personal Ads”

Kelley Cousineau, “Wax On, Wax Off”

Michael Hulme, In the Absence of Evil”

Stan Lyness, “Seven Counts of Lying to a Federal Investigator”

Visuals:

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

John Atkins, “Extinction”

Valerie, “Marshmallows and Cigarettes”

Follow the above link to view the entire July 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following:

Poetry:

Allen Coyle, “Toilet Stall Poetry”

Andrew T. Duncan, Two Poems

David Choate, “Ode to an Academic”

R. Roberts-Mesta, “The Pooter”

Prose:

Charlotte Jones, “I’m No Anna Nicole”

Dave Whippmann, “The Swashbuckler—Finding and Keeping Him. A Ladies’ Guide”

David Holub, “Found at the Dump” 3

Kane X. Faucher, A Selection from Tyranny Whenever

Rob Rosen, “Zen Cola”

Vanessa Gebbie, “Revisiting Luther”

Visuals:

Chris Katko, “W And His Trusty Steed”

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Matt Fletcher, “Legless Horse”

Follow the above link to view the entire May 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following:

Poetry:

Andrew T. Duncan, Two Poems

Kindra Ferriabough, Two Poems

M.J. Tenerelli, “Genius”

Stephanie Nordstrom, “Braces”

Prose:

Mark Kettlekamp, “Rants From An IT Professional (Wannabe)”

Paul A. Toth, “Sod”

Rob Rosen, “Costco High”

Ross Eldridge, “Tea and Therapy”

Shelley Ontis, “The Art of Truth”

Wayne Scheer, “Zen and the Art of House Painting”

Visuals:

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Jerry Rychlo, A Comic

R. Hutcheson, “The Bush Painting”

Follow the above link to view the entire May 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following:

Poetry:

Andrew T. Duncan, Two Poems

Jilly Dybka, “Psilocybin Mushrooms Sprout at the Arizona Community College”

Kelly Ann Malone, “The Cat”

Prose:

Al Bixby, “Morey Feldman—Private Detective”

Jay Wexler, “What Do You Like Best About Me?”

Jonathan Redhorse, “The War”

Julie Britt, “The Love Diet”

Michael Hulme, “Val Kilmer’s Revenge”

Sylvia Son, “A Walk In the Park”

Visuals:

Andrew Kaye, “Advanced Puppet Theatrics”

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Jerry Rychlo, A Comic

Follow the above link to view the entire April 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following, some of which may be considered NSFW:

Poetry:

Andrew T. Duncan, “A Haiku”

Brian Fuggett, Two Poems

Paul Dickey, “Why Are So Many Poems Boring?”

Prose:

Dave Clapper, “The Velocity of a Clitoris

Davis Schneiderman, “To Complete the Candidate’s Dossier”

Jim Donadio, “Dating”

Jonathan Redhorse, “I Hate Jonathan Redhorse”

Joseph Kim, “Majorly Fucked-up Assholes”

Tim Latshaw, “The Man in Manicure”

Visuals:

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Jeremiah Stansbury, “On The Range”

Jerry Rychlo, A Comic

Follow the above link to view the entire March 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.” This issue contains the following:

Poetry:

Justin Kibbe, Two Poems

William Fairbrother, “Cow-fishing”

Zack Tisch, “My Sparkling Buttocks”

Prose:

Allen Coyle, “The Dialogues of Huevo”

Christopher Woods, “Kevin”

Darby Larson, “I Hate Writing”

Kfir Luzatto, “Weird Vibrations” 6

Lauren Bonney, “Finding Mr. Right in a World of Mr. Wrongs”

Nicola Barry, “Dirt-Bag”

Vanessa Gebbie, “Miss Martin Discovers Safe Sex”

Visuals:

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Jeremiah Stansbury, “Pappa Fly”

Jerry Rychlo, A Comic

Follow the above link to view the entire February 2004 issue of Defenestration. You can also download it to your computer by right-clicking and selecting “Save As.”  This issue contains the following:

Poetry:

Brooke Bailey, “A Third Person Study of Myself”

Bryan Thao Worra, “Mischief in the Heavens”

Martha Braniff, “Joan’s Question”

Michael Levy, “Chicken”

Prose:

Deidra Garcia, “We All Scream for Ice Cream”

Guy Wilkinson, “The Office”

Jonathan Redhorse, “Mr. Crow, Volume 2”

Matt Norman, “The First Sentence”

Rob Rosen, “The IKEA Paraox”

Visuals:

Charlotte Jones, “The Two-Headed Rhino”

Chris Plehal, Some Ambiquitous Comics

Steven Paro, Jr., “Arse Kissing 101”