the Review
 
Issue Number 25 - Spring 2004

 
Editorial Comment Highlights
 
We tend to think of our lives in terms of certain significant numbers, the years that represent transitions form one phase to another. Adolescence, the age of majority. For the Claremont Review, the number twenty-five has a nice ring. It suggests that we're no longer young, that we've hit our stride. It's a nice thought.

Some of our past contributors have continued their writing careers and now have books of their own or a history of publication in mainstream adult journals. Some are married and are raising children. Their maturity attests to our own. Surely, we can relax knowing that we have finally grown up.


The truth is that each issue in a new beginning, a new birth. The truth is that we are only as old as the ink that sets a fresh crop of poems and stories onto the page. For us, the clock rewinds each time we finish another mail-out. We are a literary Sisyphus, as all literary magazines are, and we push our rock happily up the hill. We don't age. We don't grow up. We are a conundrum, a paradox. And we love it.

 

"She'd promised her father that if there were enough snow, she would build a mini snow version of the Eiffel Tower in the backyard, to make him feel at home."

Skipping, by Chantelle Aquino

 
Table of Contents
 
cover art: couches by Alandra Miller
fiction
 

Sarah Obee

Adelante
Claire MacKenzie

Climbing the Water Tower

Leilani Wong Close Enlough for Sunset
Shannon Corregan Friday Nights in Quidi Vidi
Alandra Miller Someday You Will Ache
Sarah Cain Joe
Samantha Wilde Dogs and Dishes
Chantelle Aquino Skipping
Claire Battershill New Merchandise
Chelsea Bigalky Watching it Burn
  Falling in Love with James
Bronwyn Craigie Waiting for the Sun
Sarah Cain Noir
Sarah Obee The Girl Who Saw the Moon Split Open
Julie MacFarlane Northern Lights
   
poetry  
Melanie Paget Untitled Tribute
Lilian Cheung What I Remembered from December
  I Have Been Thinking
  Baltimore
L. Povitz Carpentry
  To the Amateur Burglar, Watching a Sleeping Girl
Jess Auerbach The Skipping Song
  The Drum
Chelsea Bigalky La Belle Europe
  Twin Orphans
  Ed's Coral Palace, Florida
Justin McElroy At the Intersection of 19th and McDowell
Bronwyn Craigie I Like It
  Steal me a Shopping Cart
Brendan Inglis The Uselessness of Spain
  The Sex of the Number 15 Bus
Bing Li Catharine and Cherry
Jessica Prette Les Crêpes du Poulet
Saratoga Schaefer Pearl
Emma Kennedy Dumb Fish Dying
Erin Hartley Evening in the Queen Charlottes
Zoe Grams Splendour
Erin Hartley Shades of Yellow
  "Hospital...don't worry...luv Mom"
Annie Deng Home Entertainment
  The Subway in Hamburg
Devon Lord Grassland Natives
  Focus
Samantha Wilde Apple Cinnamon
  Thin Ice
Meredith Lewis Red Dust Refraction
  Cinecenta
Jeremy Hanson-Finger The Prime Mover
  Cut
Clare Hauser The Night My Daddy Cried
  The Hanging
Alex Lo November
Stephanie Glover Melissa
  Counting Clouds
Rowan Melling Atomic Culture Shock
  Beacon Hill Wishing Pond
Tali Cherniawsky Half Way
Patrick Grace I Want to Go Home
Leanna Wong Plum
   
visual arts  
Stephanie Glover Just a cup of coffee, please
  The Illustrated Version
Alandra Miller Front Cover
   
miscellaneous  
Notes on Contributors