Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of January 16, 2005

8 articles in this issue.


Fever Dreams 027 by Sand Pilarski — Comic

The Man in the Moon and Raiders receiver Randy Moss gets a message.

Moonlight Sonata by Jerry Seeger — Literary fiction, cover story

The death of an unknown jazz legend passes as unnoticed as the man's tremendous talent, mourned only by a musician and the muse of modern sound.

Contests: Pacific Northwest Library by Gillespie and Queen — News

The first place winners in each category are presented with the Zola Award, plus $600. The winning works will be presented as a staged reading by the SecondStory Repertory Company Fall, 2005.

Websurfing 05 by Morris and Gillespie — News

Good reading on the web.

Meanderings 04 by Basil D. — Op_ed

What do you remember most from taking your children to the amusement park when they were young? Is it the animals, the rides, the vomit, the bad food -- or a child's innocent questions about those two "wrestling" turtles?

Oort Cloud Oddities: 2004 In Review by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

While other people have presented 2004 the way it was, this is a look at 2004 the way it might as well have been, but wasn't. Includes resolutions that may as well have been made and predictions for 2005 that will never happen, but should.

Fire Song by Terri Edwards — Poem

Poem

The Crayola Kid by Chris Miller — Short

Ah, the terrible twos. A headstrong boy doodles on the walls of the house, while his concerned father tries to discipline him. Is he being too harsh? A neighbor thinks so, causing Dad to say, "If you can't beat em, join em" in this Edgar Allen Poe-esque tale of child rearing.

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