Magazine / webzine: A cappella Zoo
Editors (alphabetically listed): Colin Meldrum | Gina Ochsner
Language: English
ISSN: 1945-7480
Active: 2008 – 2015
Issues: 14
Websites: A capella Zoo | Galactic Central | ISFDB
Bibliographic comments: US magazine/webzine, publishing magical realism and slipstream. There was no Issue #13.
• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white and linked in blue.
A cappella Zoo, #1
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Fall 2008
Colin Meldrum
Trade paperback, 141 pages
$4.00
Notes:
Fiction: Lydia Williams, Oven of Dreams // Cicily Janus, Gold Brocade Dress // Corey Mesler, Memphis Movie: A
Wrap // Allan M. McDonald, Crumplezone // Drew Lackovic, Everything Ends // Brendan Connell, Kullulu //
Patricia Russo, Grandpa Lost His Toothbrush // Melinda J. Combs, The Fork // Tania Hershman, We Keep the Wall
Between Us As We Go // Heather Fowler, Beautiful Ape Girl Baby // Liza Granville, A-Z, in Descending Order //
Hank Kirton, Kidnapped // Ben Segal, My Collection of Books at the End of the World; or, Tan My Skin and Use It for
Binding // John Jasper Owens, Horrortown // Noel Sloboda, Rebirth of Tragedy // Robert J. Santa, Maker //
Matthew Falk, [lacunae] // Kathy Coudle King, Crossings
Poetry: Shellie Zacharia, This Is the House That // Yu-Han Chao, Not for Long // Nik De Dominic, A Problem in
Words // Marc Jampole, The Walk Away // Justin Hyde, Thinking of the Cedar River // Jane Knechtel, Archival //
C. E. Chaffin, Kentucky-Fried Christ // Margaret Bashaar, Dig // Rolli, Charlie // Carol Dorf, Horizon // J. R.
Pearson, Break Up // J. R. Pearson, Silent Instrumental // Omar Singleton, Carrion Bread // Miah Jeffra, The
Riots, from Behind Glass, with My Father // Krysten Tom, Pequeñita
A cappella Zoo, #2
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Spring 2009
Colin Meldrum
Trade paperback, 165 pages
$4.00
Notes:
Fiction: Nicole Miyashiro, When the World Ends // Ken Jaworowski, One to the Head, One to the Heart // Lesley
C. Weston, Too Far the Sea // Laura Joyce Davis, Slab City // Aaron Polson, A Sort of Honeymoon // Laura
Madeline Wiseman, Hands Like Drowned Stars // Clare Goubin, Mrs. Piccola's Hat [ also in French ] // B. Miller,
The Letter // Brandon Patterson, Pangaea // D. T. Friedman, Wayfare // Larry Lefkowitz, The Lady in the Bay
[ also in Hebrew ] // Ian Denning, Mark's Tattoo Parlor // J. L. Bramble, Tarantula Hawk // Patricia Mastricolo,
Voodoo Requiem // Ravi Mangla, Pest // Miles Klee, This Better Go As Planned // Lynn Maleh, Sugar Pills //
Brock Adams, Burn
Poetry: Jacqueline West, Residue // Michael Schmeltzer, Flowers, Shears // Robin Patric Clair, The Story of
Jimmy Draws-So-Small // Ron D'Alena, Marcus & the Whale // P. A. Levy, The DNA of Carbon // David McLean,
from the stones // Jason Fraley, Self-Portrait with a Fairy Tale in Which I'm Mostly Eaten // Rhian Waller, The
Uncanny // Linda Ann Strang, Magic Realists in Love // Aditi Machado, I Should Not Be Here // Laura LeHew, A
Frosted Web in the Brambles // Marcia Arrieta, all is not dead.
A cappella Zoo, #3
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Fall 2009
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4486-9747-2
Trade paperback, 165 pages
$4.00
Notes:
Fiction: J. S. Simmons, The Bluebird // Roxane Gay, Requiem for a Glass Heart // John Jasper Owens, Postcards
from Home // John Jasper Owens, LizardFoot // Eliza C. Walton, Ambulance for the Selkie // Alex Phillips,
Strung // Travis Hubbs, The Ghosts of Rich Men // Heather Momyer, You Drink Too Much, but I'll Still Come
Running // Alexander Weinstein, The Pyramid and the Ass // Sean Thomas, The Great Escape of Emily
Brockenridge // Deborah Walker, Nebuchadnezzar's Legacy // Pete Pazmino, Singing Bucket // Rachel
Lieberman, Damsel // Lora Rivera, Calling Rain // John McRae, The Week // Richard Radford, The Killer in the
Woods Cometh // Phoebe Wilcox, The Big Bang // Niall Boyce, The Return
Poetry: William Keener, Tale of the Avian Saint // George Seli, Subterranean School // Bryan C. Murray, Water
Babies // Luca Penne, Another Poetic Funeral // Margaret Walther, In the Emily Dickinson Museum // Dave Seter,
Winter Solstice, Yosemite Valley // Anindita Sengupta, The Kitchen God's Mistress // Nicelle Davis, Sideshow
Serpentina: The Last of the Split-Tailed Mermaids // Sarah Lucille Marchant, metallic // Kristine Ong Muslim,
Resurrection of a Doll from a Pop-Up Book // Rob Cook, At Night I Hear Animals Behind the Moon // Brenda Mann
Hammack, In Which a Taste for Tongue is Eloquently Debated // Mary Marie Dickson, Apple Parable // Rebecca
James, Weekends // Matt Dennison, The Sky I Think Is Up There // John Myers, Sigilism // Michael James
Martin, The Earth Suit // Prartho Sereno, Man Without a Wishbone
Essay: Orna Ben-Shoshan, Soul Brothers
A cappella Zoo, #4
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Spring 2010
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4515-1192-5
Trade paperback, 192 pages
$7.00
Notes:
• Interior art by Peter L. Scacco and Meagan Jenigan.
Fiction: Amber Sparks, When the Weather Changes You // Jennifer Koe, The Cloud Killer // Chris Wiewiora, Teeth
of the Cogs // John Thornton, Satan in Love // Ieva Melgalve, The Siren's Song [ also in Latvian ] // Rae Bryant, I
Keep a Vine Woven Basket by the Door // Matt Carney, William the Unready // Christina Murphy, Mrs. Sisyphus //
Eric Schaller, The Watchmaker // Rob E. Boley, Cat and Goldfish // Greg Gerke, My Little Life—Fully Steamed and
Mixed // Larry Lefkowitz, Introduction [ also in Hebrew ] // Laura Spencer, This Is Not a Love Story // Christopher
Ryan, Pogue // Karen Marie Vaughn, Rara Avis // Robin Rozanski, Tangy Glazed Carrots // Francis DiClemente,
Automat: An Interpretation // Ben Loory, The Snake in the Throat: A Fable // Randolph Schmidt, Larva // Robert
Hinderliter, Attraction and Attrition // Maria Deira, Stain // Gabe Durham, Hard Year for Everybody // Kurt Newton,
The Wooden Grandpa // Kyle Hemmings, Piranha Men and Cinnamon Girls // J. A. Tyler, Boy [n2] // J. A. Tyler,
Girl [n2] // J. A. Tyler, People [n1]
Poetry: Patrick Sugrue, Dialysis // Justin Petropoulos, 8.03 [folded like a crane] // Justin Petropoulos, 9.07
[refinery] // Audri Sousa, bildungsroman // Joseph Harrington, The History of Sexuality // R. Matthew Burke, Two
Evenings // Pedro Tejada, Perks of Desolation // Lois Beebe Hayna, 26 // Catherine Zickgraf, The Companions of
Dust // Eric Burke, Aphorism // M. P. Powers, Beelzebubstomp // Noel Sloboda, Richard of Gloucester's Machine
// Amy Rollinson, Un Balanced // Crystal J. Hoffman, How Myths Learn to Eat
A cappella Zoo, #5
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Fall 2010
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4538-0137-6
Trade paperback, 122 pages
$7.00
Notes:
• 'A Tale of a Snowy Night' translated by Toshiya Kamei.
Fiction: Nancy Gold, Showtime // Hayes Greenwood Moore, The Creature from the Lake // David Misialowski, In
Borges' Bookstore // Edmond Caldwell, The Collector of Van de Voys // Melissa Ross, Movie Man // Kate Riedel,
Birds Every Child Should Know // Mike Meginnis, The Snake Charmer's Teeth // Benjamin Robinson, The
Abandoned City // Alex Myers, Somewhere Near Gerasa // Jason Jordan, Pestilence // Tania Hershman, Einstein
Plays Guitar // Theodore Carter, The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob // Phillip Neel, The Crushing // Naoko Awa,
A Tale of a Snowy Night // Catherine Sharpe, Shades of Gray
Poetry: Feng Sun Chen, Eclipse // Kristine Ong Muslim, How Conrad Came Back // Kristine Ong Muslim, How
Conrad Got His Revenge // Kristine Ong Muslim, How Conrad Fell in Love // Barry Napier, Sleepmaps // Charlene
Logan Burnett, Circling of Cranes // Amy DeBevoise, Antarctica // Travis Blankenship, Molesting the Legend //
Joseph A. W. Quintela, :sign language: // Daniela Schonberger, Let This Be My Refuge // Lisa Grove, The Cat and
the Fiddle // Nathaniel Taggart, How to Fall Down // Rob Cook, What the Calf Daughter Knows // Anna Jaquiery,
Fragmentation
A cappella Zoo, #6
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Spring 2011
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4564-9310-3
Trade paperback, 146 pages
$7.00
Notes:
Fiction: Dora Badger, These Troubles, Oh No // Micah Dean Hicks, Oldjohn's House // Anton Baer,
Metamorefruitis // Anton Baer, Nights on Neptune // Jennifer Kelly-DeWitt, Annunciations // J. S. Khan, Someone
Must Stop the Bonapartists! // Emily Lawrence, The Legs Come Off Easily // Andrew Mitchell, The Rocket in the
Sky // James Carpenter, May These Characters Remain // Guy R. Beining, within the face what other faces swim?
// Maria Deira, Notes on Cork Tree Babies // Nancy Stebbins, Curiosity
Poetry: Felicia Zamora, the dead are very patient // Felicia Zamora, Ballad of Conjure // Felicia Zamora, A ghost's
sagacity for all things thimble // Nicelle Davis, Cheryl Gross, from In the Circus of You // Callista Buchen,
Becoming // Brenda Mann Hammack, Little Hermit Sphinx // Jessica Young, from the human-suit series, Part II //
Lindsay Miller, The Adventures of Starfish Girl // J. A. Tyler, Variations of a Brother War // Rose Hunter, Part
Pelican // Michael Jones, Reflections on an Alien Melon
A cappella Zoo, #7
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Fall 2011
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4564-9310-3
Trade paperback, 146 pages
$7.00
Notes:
• The three poems by Daniel Porder are collectively titled "from The Centipede Love Songs".
Fiction: Daniel Pearlman, A Giant in the House // Meryl Ferguson, Nandie in the Wall // Kate Riedel, Urban
Legends // Tania Hershman, Waving on the Moon // Julia A. Rosenthal, Trouble in Mind // Alexander Weinstein,
Painting God at Epcot // JP Kemmick, Moving Down // David Misialowski, ...Nothing to Lose but Your Chain Rules
// Chantel Tattoli, Take Up the Bonnet Rouge // Danya Goodman, Brunhilde's Escape // Anthony J. Rapino, Fixing
a Hole // Adam King, The Arc's Descent // Josh Denslow, Proximity // Claire Massey, The Sand Ship // J. David
Bell, A Very Small Child Called Eugene // Robin Lee Jordan, Mescal Reposado con Gusano // Walter Bargen, A
Theory of Music // Curt Seubert, The Message from Nature // Erich William Bergmeier, The Strong Salt Taste of
Living Things // Bill Jones, The Vampires in the Basement
Poetry: Elizabeth O'Brien, Ginny // Matt Dennison, Omaha // Holly Amos, poem in which your hat is a boat //
Caitlin Thomson, Teaching a Post Lunar World // John F. Buckley, Martin Ott, Leaving La Dulce // Joanna Pham,
Behavior // Will Cordeiro, Pick Up // Eleanor Paynter, Gumby Falls Hard // Adam McOmber, What Follows Us //
Ujjal Nihil, Factory // Cindy Hunter Morgan, The Bicycle Maker // Daniel Porder, To Those Crawled Across in
Sleep // Daniel Porder, To Those Who Crush Bugs // Daniel Porder, To Those Lovely Shadows
A cappella Zoo, #9
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Fall 2012
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4793-5244-9
Trade paperback, 140 pages
$7.50
Notes:
Fiction: M. W. Fowler, Inside Shadowboxes // Katherine Marzinsky, Of Love and Waste // Faith Gardner, The
Woman with No Face // Redfern Barrett, Transaction // Collin Blair Grabarek, Old Myths // Matthew Blasi, Briny
Tide // Rachel Adams, The Sacrosancts // Anton Baer, Atomic Summer // Brenda Anderson, The Dog Within //
Victorya Chase, Dreaming of the Manananggal // Faith Schantz, Grounded // Sam Grieve, Mrs. Coltsfoot's
Neighbour // Shellie Zacharia, Yesterday My Dog Talked // Julie Day, Finding Your Way to the Coast
Poetry: Jeanine Deibel, from Spyre // Paul Cunningham, Into Magma Town // Benjamin Clark, Colin Winnette, the
gun game // Vanessa Lessel, technology of health // Dylan Platz, Dreams of the Greenland Coast // Jeff Pearson,
Reintroduction // Jeff Pearson, Coyote // Changming Yuan, Crows, My Crows // Meaghan Hope, Isis
A cappella Zoo, #10
Gina Ochsner, ed.
< Spring 2013
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4839-2041-2
Trade paperback, 344 pages
$7.50
Notes:
• Subtitled 'Bestiary'. All contents have appeared in previous issues.
• Interior artwork (for 'Dearest Dirty') by Gavin Faherty.
Fiction: Hayes Moore, The Creature from the Lake // Theodore Carter, The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob // Claire
Massey, The Sand Ship // Edmond Caldwell, The Collector of Van de Voys // Danya Goodman, Brunhilde's
Escape // Josh Denslow, Proximity // John Jasper Owens, Postcards from Home // Rachel Adams, The
Sacrosancts // Randolph Schmidt, Larva // Amber Sparks, When the Weather Changes You // Joe Kapitan, War
Crumbs // Anton Baer, part one of Atomic Summer // Roxane Gay, Requiem for a Glass Heart // Micah Dean
Hicks, Oldjohn's House // A. A. Balaskovits, Three Times Red // Maria Deira, Stain // Chantel Tattoli, Take Up the
Bonnet Rouge // Walter Bargen, A Theory of Music // Eric Schaller, The Watchmaker // Emily J. Lawrence, The
Legs Come Off Easily // Kurt Newton, The Wooden Grandpa // Nicole Miyashiro, When the World Ends // Julia A.
Rosenthal, Trouble in Mind // Andrew Mitchell, The Rocket in the Sky // Tina Hyland, Dearest Dirty // Robert
Edward Sullivan, Popper's Choice // Redfern Barrett, Transaction // Adam McOmber, What Follows Us // Pedro
Ponce, The Paranormal Guide to Wedding Ettiquette // Jack Kaulfus, The End of the Objects // Julie Day, Finding
Your Way to the Coast // Bernard M. Cox, La Chanson de l'Observation // Nancy Gold, Showtime // Kate Riedel,
Birds Every Child Should Know // Lora Rivera, Calling Rain // Collin Blair Grabarek, Old Myths
Poetry: Elizabeth O'Brien, Ginny // Ali Lanzetta, Versions // Nicelle Davis, Cheryl Gross, from In the Circus of
You // Patrick Sugrue, Dialysis // Kristine Ong Muslim, How Conrad Came Back // Kristine Ong Muslim, How
Conrad Got His Revenge // Kristine Ong Muslim, How Conrad Fell in Love // Robin Patric Clair, The Story of
Jimmy Draws-So-Small // Jeff Pearson, Reintroduction // Michael Schmeltzer, Flowers, Shears // Daniel Porder,
To Those Crawled Across in Sleep // Daniel Porder, To Those Who Crush Bugs // Shellie Zacharia, This Is the
House That // Jessica Young, from the human-suit series, Part II // Alana I. Capria, from Lilith's Extra Rib // Mary
Lou Buschi, Beauty School // Lindsay Miller, The Adventures of Starfish Girl // Prartho Sereno, Man Without a
Wishbone // John F. Buckley, Martin Ott, Leaving La Dulce Vida // Feng Sun Chen, Eclipse // Caitlin Thomson,
Teaching a Post Lunar World // Margaret Bashaar, Dig // Benjamin Clark, Colin Winnette, the gun game //
Margaret Walther, In the Emily Dickinson Museum // C. E. Chaffin, Kentucky-Fried Christ // William Keener, Tale
of the Avian Saint // Felicia Zamora, Ballad of Conjure // M. P. Powers, Beelzebubstomp // John Myers, Sigilism
// Joseph Harrington, The History of Sexuality // Linda Ann Strang, Magic Realists in Love
Interview: Colin Meldrum, A Conversation with Gina Ochsner
A cappella Zoo, #11
Colin Meldrum, ed.
< Fall 2013
Colin Meldrum
ISBN 978-1-4922-9921-9
Trade paperback, 166 pages
$7.50
Notes:
Fiction: Erin Kate Ryan, Walking on Sunshine // Christopher DeWan, Voodoo // Emily Koon, Shame // Max
Harris, Funny Bones // Su-Yee Lin, Away They Go; or, Hurricane Season // J. P. Kemmick, Unmoored // J. T.
Torres, Stuck // Kenton K. Yee, Shooting Stars // Jen Knox, We Arrive Uninvited // Carmen Lau, We Creatures //
Ryan Forsythe, Subject: PLS YOUR URGENT ASSISTANTS IS NEDED // Scott Warrender, The Stereoscope //
Max Vande Vaarst, Roadkill Sasquatch // Patrick Kelling, Erosion // Thaddeus Rutkowski, Getting There from
Here // Michael Schmeltzer, Goodnight Nobody // Shannon Norland, Desert Song // Akil Wingate, Clara's Baby
// Zarina Zabrisky, Immortal // Sue Staats, The Natural Law of Eggs // Annie Bilancini, The Boy and the Window
Poetry: Noel Sloboda, Entrepreneurial Spirits // M. E. Silverman, The Never Boys & the Young Mermaid // Kristin
Camitta Zimet, The Doll Mother // Alex Grover, Dyad // Tarin Towers, The Gremlin of Self-Generated Complexity
// Rich Ives, The Potato Counters // Megan Peak, "Violence runs down my spine..." // Sidney Thompson,
Excavation // Hillary Katz, Where the Pit Should Be // Hillary Katz, The Girl Turns Herself Inside Out // Yim Tan
Wong, From the Quality and Patient Safety Department
