The Stories: 2000-2005 - Carve Magazine

Archived Listing of Stories Published 2000-2005 Bold denotes published in Best of Carve anthology for year. Volume One, 2000
March	Adam Smyth Cait Coogan JoAnn Miller Jerry Craven	In Pasadena The Dairy Farmer U-Wash U-Dry Demons of Memory
May	Adam Smyth Steve Mueske Alexandra Thompson Stephen Kimber Robert Pollock Pieter Hudson	His Absent Presence All The Difference in the World The Beautiful Boy Nothing Like Chocolate A Queer State The Old Car
July	Alexandra Thompson Tanya Egan Gibson Daniel Greenstone Suzy Spraker Lad Moore Patrick Noakes Cait Coogan	Driving Over Mozart Glass Sky Inauguration Day Keeping the Joy The Firmament of the Third Day The Last Bagatelle In the Darkness
September	Evan Palmer Nanette Rayman Lad Moore Richard Messer	The Pretense We Can Be Free The Second Birthing of Young Tim The Wounded House
November	Gratitude Contest Winner: Nan Leslie Second Place: Barbara Jacksha Molly Layton Scott Wolven Lad Moore	Bijou Sweet Dreams Senseless Controlled Burn The Untattling of the Tale
Volume Two, 2001
January	Michael McGregor Robin Parks Andrew Agwunobi XuXi Katherine Eittreim Devin Oatway Richard Messer	Restoring the Lost Women, Bears, and Other Dangerous Things Earnest at School Until the Next Century The Ponderosa The Green MG Family Thought Disorder
March	Carver Award Winner: Robin Parks Second Place: Gina Ochsner Finalists: Victoria Branden Amy Ramsden Molly Melina Sultan Cheryl Stayed Laura Scholes Tania Casselle Kathy Hayes Anne Stewart Hendry Sarah Shaw Middleton Andrew Bomback	Las Golondrinas From the Fourth Row Metamorphosis Trespass A Story You Won’t Believe if You’re Human American Indian Memorial Highway Oracle Road Safe Behind Glass The Restoration Sincerely, Elvis Presley Sacred Duty Myron Kaplan and Bobby Dee
May	Jan English Leary Jon O’Shea Dana Crum Ralph Wanderer Andrew Bomback J.M. DeGross Tahnee McGuire Molly Layton	Skating on the Vertical The Voice in Your Night Nothing Can Remain Unchanged Zeus Limping From the Stretch A New Millennium Drunken Song Gathering Joe
July	Graham Catt Benjamin Saenz RoseMarie London Thomas J. Cox Adrian Khactu Shannon K. Dunn Lad Moore Patrick Noakes G.W. Kimura Pushkar P. Apte	Love Song Another Name for Exile Tattoo Names Disneyland, 1979 Divinity The Accounting of Java Ray Circle Line Prom The Crossroads
September	Nicole Louise Reid Teresa Funke Gary Sloan Jesse C. Dunn Peter Kokovich Joanne Miller Ronald F. Currie, Jr. Stefan Kiesbye Avital Gad-Cykman	Elision of Pleasure What He Might Have Been Prisons Journey Neon Humming Penance Killing Scottish Elvis What I Will Tell Him After The Orbit of a Newborn World
November	Gratitude Contest Winner: Gina Ochsner Craig Platt Robert Kaye Laura Gabel-Hartman Spencer Ellis Nanette Rayman Pieter Hudsen Janice Nabors Raiteri Diane Farrington RoseMarie London Peter Nolan Smith Ryan Miller Ginny S. Wray Victoria Branden	Dance With the Dead Van Gogh Dreams The Man Who Ate Cars Bud How I Learned to Hate the Last Day of School Luv’s Baby Soft Spray Man’s Best Friend The Music in Me When You’re Downsized Three Day Expedite Blows Against the Empire A Small Chance Our Lady of Miami Beach Living Behind the Paper Curtain (essay)
Volume Three, 2002
January	Lisa Polisar Margaret Karmazin David Barringer Jordan J. Vezina Michael Allen Felicia Sullivan Thomas J. Misuraca Frederick Schoeneman Michelle Lisi Andrew Bomback Victoria Branden Antoine Duchastel de Mont-Rouge Steven J. McDermott Lyle Nelson	The Outside Clan Before The Duck Graves of Sarajevo Cubical Man Undone To The Letter Mr. Browning is a Dick Bunny and Sue The Tom Harmon Incident Et in Arcadia One Week in Summer Seven Blocks North, Two Miles East Crib Notes
March	Carver Award Winner: Allsion Ryan Second Prize: Scott Nadelson Finalists: Heather Russel Cathleen Horan Michael George Yasmina Madden Leona Cully Anna Martemucci Stephanie Kallos Christine Granados Elizabeth Iddon Jessica Scalise	The Whole of It Kosher The Save Rabbits Where Are You People, anyway? Piper The Shape of Things Less Black FSBO Enough Bunny Hollow My Brother Mace
May	Keith Cronin Greg Russell Ashley Shelby Maggie Kast Jason Steed Krista McGruder Gillian Law Patrick Tobin Jacinda Townsend Gides Shaun M. McGuire	I’d Like to Thank the Academy Pensive Days I Don’t Know You, What Have I Done Moonlight Clown Wild Boar The Southernmost Point Rebuilding 14 Things To Do in Stockholm in the Winter The Golddigger’s Bible Just Ask the Piano
July	Katherine Kulpa Rebecca A. Moon Barbara Yost Kiki Delancey Chris deBolt Angela Tung Lisa Polisar Kerrith Bell Matt Carreon Steven J. McDermott	Pleasant Drugs and Terminal Liquors Sleeping Naked South of Eden Story of the Bread What Cannot Be Left Behind Spies The Fishing Quarter Varnish Thanksgiving Hotel Room My Summer Vacation
September	Maryanne Stahl Ava Pawlak Bill Forseth Charles King Steve Young Chris Duncan A.C. Koch Bruce Taylor Mark Pearson Josh Capps Ruth Lacey	Angel of Mercy Real Men, Ghost Parts Water It’s Illegal For One Thing A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square The Swimming Pool Deadland Story Is Circling Over Ithica Hellraiser Night
November	Gratitude Contest Winner: Krista McGruder Sefi Atta Ginny Wray Patty See Richard Heady R.C. Cooper Kathryn Kelly Andrew McKenna Christopher A. Daniels Paul Andrew Smith Anisha Mason	The Bereavement of Eugene Wheeler Hailstones on Zamfara The Fresh Young Thing Everybody’s Wisconsin Confluence and Divergence Keep Smiling Recuerdos de Burgos Staring at Angels On Sticky Things VirtuAlice Tricks
Volume Four, 2003
January	Katherine Eittreim Stephanie Kallos Bill Forseth David King Xu Xi G.K. Wuori Leona Cully Elizabeth Iddon Brian O’Sullivan Ruth Lacey Penny Feeny Debbra Mikaelsen	Shrug Blanche Before and After Dinner With the Boss Letting Paddy Fly Access Star Loon Father’s Day A Legacy of Sorts Foreign Correspondent The Telescope The Sluice Room Name for Blue
March	Janet Thornburg Donna George Storey Susan Henderson Anna Levina Earl LeClaire Angela Tung R.C. Cooper Pamela Schoenwaldt Josh Capps Herbert Biegel Tony O’Brien Ann Morissett Davidon	Pink Rods, Red Clouds, and a Rhubarb Pie At the Shore Camus Beat You to It Ciao, Feruccio Sea of Huracan One Fish, Two Fish Still Smiling Disturbing the Peace Dealing Doppelganger Grafton Bridge Death in Paris
May	Carver Award Winner: A.C. Koch Second Prize: Susi Klare Third Prize: Dominic Smith Finalists: Randolyn Zinn Rebecca A. Brams Morgan McDermott William Wall C.B. Anderson Shaun Levin Rebecca Godwin Joshua Weil	The Only Cuauhtemoc in Town Naked Glass String Theory Risi e Bisi The Crossing Traction Surrender Taken Professor and Mrs. Painter Saved The Rules of Dirt and Trees
July	Shann Ray Bob Sloan Jessica DeStefano Tracy Alig Dowling Adam Stumacher Crystal Allene Cook Cass McNally Mariana Romo-Carmona Joseph DeQuattro Adrian Onyando Kefi Chadwick Jennifer Cody Epstein	The Great Divide The Window Dreams Desiderata Weightless We Ain’t Egyptians Sweet Tracks The Last Cigarette in New York The Gun, the Spear, and the Word Cheers, Thanks, Bye Auld Lang-Syne
September	Ann E. Bergin Gail Waldstein, M.D. Richard Lewis Alex Mindt Barry Baldwin Elizabeth Smith David Fromm Elise Valmorbida Andy C. Davidson Elissa Minor Rust Janice Nabors Raiteri Michael Conn Mia Gallagher	Drive Through Anatomy of a Gift Maggot An Artist at Work Boys and Girls Come Out to Play Loveland This Time Last Year In Permits True Love Vital Organs Stained Glass Hatch Headhunter
November	2003 Gratitude Contest Winner:
November	Gayla Chaney Arielle Agababa Levites Rober Gray Leni Zumas Diana Potter Lisa Simeone Maria Manilla Malcolm Eva Robert McGee Andrew McKenna Daniel Robert Jones David Burns	Helena Montana Franklin Cox and the Redwood Forest Rocks and Bones The War Channel How He Was a Wicked Son The Man Who Invented the Socktopus Sophie’s Garden Distillation Margaret’s Air On The Verge of All This Gone to Air Counting Lampposts Do I Love Him?
Volume Five, 2004
January	Second Prize, 2003 Gratitude Contest
	Sean McCormick	A Report From Chekernassy
	Third Prize, 2003 Gratitude Contest
	Bill Cyr Rebecca Cook Sara Lippmann Frank Vick Jeffrey Faas Bob Sloan Judith Beck Audrey P. Johnson Murzban Shroff Colin O’Sullivan Walter L. Maroney	As Seen on TV God Helps Those Breakfast at Denny’s Writing Exercise Cockroaches Saved What We Don’t Discuss Verisimilitude Babu Bara Takka Kanashibari A Response to My New Lover’s Persistent Questions About My First Sexual Experience
March	Jeffrey Stayton Bev Vincent Mariana Romo-Carmona Richard Heady Joseph DeQuatro Will Gorham Katya Uroff Andrew McKenna Grettir Jacobs Heather Fleming John Cologrande, Jr.	Chisanbop Diver Down Death of the Rabbits AKA A Day in the Life of Michael Burns The Widower Where We Go From Here The Beatification of Ali Obeid The Catalyst What I Have Always Remembered Looking for Margarita
May	Winner of the 2004 Raymond Carver Short Story Award:
	Mary Winsor	Halfsies
	Second Prize, 2004 Raymond Carver Short Story Award:
	Clarinda Harriss	Bone to Bone
	Third Prize, 2004 Raymond Carver Short Story Award:
	Lynn Stegner	Catch and Release
	Finalists:
	Editor’s Choice Prize
	Kate Braverman	Mrs. Jordan’s Summer Vacation
	Best Story by a non-North American Author
	Brian Dixon Jane Eaton Hamilton Yunny Chen Kerry Madden Guy Thorvaldsen Sallie Bingham	Songs of the Sea Wart’s Ugly Pachang Creek Seeds of Destruction Church Burning Dancing Man
July	Melanie Culbertson Chavie Fiszer G.K. Wuori Desmond Meiring Rose Glickman Kumkum Amin Judi Moore J. Boyer name withheld at author’s request Beth Manca Miranda Hersey Christopher Shelley	At the Strip I Am Eve Infidelity Dasturi Missing Persons The Sanskrit Teacher Suffer Little Children Allegiances Tomorrow is Another Day Radioactive Learning to Cook What Follows
September	Twister Marquiss Lisa Siegel Laura Hunter Jamey Genna Cyn Kitchen Robert Daseler Grace Jolliffe Robin Winick Catherine McNamara David Sroaf Phoebe Kate Foster Anne Leigh Parrish	Little Bighorn The Bloom Exotic The Prodigal X-Ray How to Avoid Sex Death of an Illicit Lover Sunstroked A Foot of Land The Small Shriveled Eyes Dog Door Sadistic Shoes When Every Part of You Breaks
November	Christiana Langenberg Vincent Lam Bruce Taylor Joanne Miller Kathryn carissimi Sean Mackel Dustin Wells Margo Feeley Stace Budzko Gary Guinn Suzy Spraker Linda Holmes	Tumble Dry, Low Heat Before Light One of the Guys How You See It Mastering the Swedish Fall Yellow Ochre H-U-S-T-L-I-N-G Temporary Dwellings La-Z-Boy The Scar Naked Bereft
Volume Six, 2005
January	Benjamin Percy Susanne Davis Cherise Saywell Bernadette Smyth Ned Bachus Katy Darby Pierre Hauser Crin Claxton Bill Miles Gail Bartley Ronder Thomas Young John Colagrande, Jr.	The Funeralgoer The Object of Desire How Not to be Deflowered Cider Home Sepia Romantic Getaway A Fortnight in Whistable Ain’t Nothing a Plumber Can’t Fix What Happens Next Weather is Large Chez Whitey’s
March	Jodi Angel Richard Rothman Nicole Caroll Mary Kalfatovic Soma Guha Thomas Benz Miriam Kotzin Mark Kjeldgaard Jane Ratcliffe B.H. Ebert Srdan Papic Sara Fraser	Push Party by Sartre Contigo The Writer and the Sellers Rabbil Trouble With the Magi Secret Remorse The Bunny Cage Your Mother’s Smile The Mechanisms Floaters
May	First Prize, 2005 Raymond Carver Short Story Award
	Adam Stumacher	Slipknot
	Second Prize, Raymond Carver Short Story Award
	Peter Fong	This Melancholy Bait
	Third Prize, Raymond Carver Short Story Award
	Stephanie Kallos	A Heart Like Sarajevo
	Best Story by a non-North American Author:
	Judy Crozier	First the Chicken
	Editor’s Choice Award:
	Bryan Meckley	Personal Effects
	Finalists:
	Dorene O’Brien Paul Cronin Susan Montiel Robert S. Williams Louella Bryant	Way Past Taggin’ Death and the Maiden Aboriginal Highway Jersey Cowboy Chrysalis
July	John Minichillo Uma Dasgupta Rochelle Ratner Deborah Bauer Catherine Blackwell Valerie Smith Barry Baldwin Rhoda Weber Mack Raymond Morrison Ian Madden Bill Miles Dana Liu	Loyalty Storms Her Special Trip Flying Angels The Secret Life of Peonies The Venetian Mask Too Close For Comfort Peerless in Africa Wrightsville The Velvet Keyhole As Normal as Rhubarb Pie Orfevre
September	W.H. Saayman Marsh Rose Aaron Sitze Paul Currion Bill Ransom Laurel Ostrow J.D. Blair Amy L. Mowrey H.E. Lowe Susan A. O’Doherty	A Line of Boxes Landlady Letters Runner Taking Care of the Boat Scraps Fall Away Jump Shot The Cello Player ISO Clarence The Brother King The Tower
November	Dina Mehta Sharon Zink Desmond Meiring Scott Nadelson Lizzie Harwood Kris Broughton Mike Lubow Peter Selgin Emily Franklin Bryan Islip Scott Goldberg Louis Malloy	Moments of Truth Park Pelican Vanishes The Flesh and the Devil Half a Day in Halifax Rome Separate But Equal The Ladder The Sea Cure A Map of the Area Claws Monday City of Mr. Jiang