(click on the title to be taken to the text of any story) PERIQUITA SHOES a story by Liliana Blum (translated by Toshiya Kamei) Liliana Blum is the author of The Curse of Eve and Other Stories (forthcoming from Host Publications). Toshiya Kamei has published translations of Liliana's stories in over a dozen journals, including Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, and storySouth.   CONTROL , FEEL THE VOID , THE THIRD PILE , and ALL THE PROPHETS IN HER HOUSE stories by Ken Brosky (from the collection LEAVING DODGE COUNTY) Ken Brosky is a writer of short fiction and the author of the novel Grendel.  The stories comprising his collection Leaving Dodge County will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.   DRIVING CAB excerpt from the novel by Jack Daley Jack Daley is the author of the novels Tasting The Whitewater and Sunday Mornings.  His novel Driving Cab will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.   MOTHERHOOD , DIA DE LOS MUERTOS , BRINGING IN THE SHEAVES ,  and THE HOUSE OF VENUS stories by Carol Culver-Rzadkiewicz (from the collection THE SECOND COMING AND OTHER STORIES) Currently an instructor for the University of Phoenix, Carol Culver-Rzadkiewicz holds a Masters Degree in English from the State University Of West Georgia.  She is the author of the novels Mustang Summer and Remembering Della.  Her short fiction has appeared in Sante Fe Writers Project Literary Journal, Toasted Cheese, Zine5, The Remington Review, Horseman Magazine, The Mariner, The Phoenix, The New Review, The Eclectic, and The Sun.  The stories comprising her collection The Second Coming And Other Stories will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.   ADJUNCT a story by Clifford Garstang Clifford Garstang is a longtime resident of Asia who now lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In addition to degrees in law and public administration, he holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.A. in English from Indiana University, and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. His work has appeared in Shenandoah, Baltimore Review, The Potomac Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Ledge, RE:AL and elsewhere. His story Nanking Mansion won the 2007 GSU Review Fiction Contest. He is a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.   HOLLYWOOD ENDING excerpt from the novel by David S. Grant David S. Grant is the author of the novels Corporate Porn, Bleach/Blackout, The Last Breakfast, and the collection Emotionless Souls.  His novel Hollywood Ending will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.   LOOSE EYED SMOKE a story by Ian Grody Ian Grody is a screenwriter, playwright, and author who earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch (NYU). He is the recipient of the 2004 Artistine Mann Award for Fiction, the 2006 Hemingway Society Hinkle Award, the 2006 Cinequest Film Festival Award for Screenwriting, the 2006 Ivy Film Festival Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay, the Venable Herndon Screenwriting Award, the 2007 Bristol Drama Society Playwriting Award, The 2007 Prague Post Audience Award, and the 2004-2006 Goldberg Fellowship & Scholarship (Tisch). Ian's plays have been presented by The New York Collective For The Arts (NYC), The Kennedy Center, The American Globe Theatre (NYC), Manhattan Theatre Source, 13th Street Rep Theatre (NYC), Center Stage Theater (Santa Barbara) and The ArtsCenter (North Carolina)- as well as by theatres in Prague, England, New Zealand, Canada, and Singapore.   IDLE DOODLINGS: ON DRUGS , THE ONLINE REFRIGERATOR , JOSHUA’S FIRST TIME , and EMILY TRIES…BUT MISUNDERSTANDS   stories by Mathew Klickstein (from the collection L.A. RHAPSODY) Mathew Klickstein is the writer of Sony Pictures' upcoming film Last Night and the co-founder of Better Bacon LLC, a nascent clothing line that melds high fashion with outsider art.  The stories comprising his collection L.A. Rhapsody will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.   TITUS AND THE BITCH a story by Hope Klocker Hope Klocker is a writer of fiction, a freelance copyeditor, and an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine/Story Quarterly.  She lives and works in Minnesota.   69, 70 excerpt from the novel by  Natalija Grgorinic and Ognjen Raden Natalija Grgorinic and Ognjen Raden hold a joint MFA Degree in Creative Fiction and are currently working on a joint doctorate on the subject of collaborative literary authorship.  They edit Admit Two, a bi-monthly online journal of collaborative writing.  Originally from Croatia, they have published two novels and a collection of short fiction.  Their first novel in English, Mr. & Mrs. Hide, will be released in the United States later this year.  Their novel 69, 70 will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.   LISTEN (TALK: A SLIGHT RETURN), HYPNOTIC INDUCTION , GARDNER SPEAKS: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEGENDARY ROCK MUSICIAN BUDDY GARDNER , MITMENSCH , WHERE’S THE GAME? , and WRITE EM RIGHT: A COLLOQUY stories by Corey Mesler (from the collection LISTEN: 29 SHORT CONVERSATIONS) Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store in Memphis, Tennessee and the author of the novels Talk: A Novel In Dialogue (Livingston Press) and We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon (Livingston Press), and the full length poetry collection Some Identity Problems (Foothills Publishing). He has been extensively published in literary journals, nominated for the Pushcart Prize numerous times, his poetry has been selected for Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac and his work has received critical praise from John Grisham, Frederic Barthelme, Robert Olen Butler, David Markson, Lee Smith, Steve Stern, Suzanne Kingsbury, Marshall Chapman, George Singleton and others.  His collection LISTEN: 29 Short Conversations will be presented in installments throughout the next several editions of Predicate.