_ Issue 3 _ 2007 - 2008   Brady Rhoades What Your Dad's Underpands Have to do With Space Travel Been thinking of the astronaut who drifted away in his capsule, still drifting in the huge space out there, part of a loop. Eighty-five years old, going bony, brain splat on the steel hatch, mouth in a slush, thighs running around the cabin. Written off by the Russian government in 1960. Nobody wants to think of him this way. It’s better not to think of some things, like your dad’s underpants. “Where is the good in my dad’s underpants?” you ask. “And what’s it got to do with astronauts?” Which reminds me: he must have been wearing underpants. It’s not all about spacesuits, radar, physics. Nobody wants to admit that sad diaper was loosed on the universe, but it was, an artifact of the human race, and they’ll draw conclusions, you know. _ ___ _ Table of Contents _ Contest Winners and Finalists _ Allison Joseph _ Maureen Tolman Flannery _ Carissa DiGiovanni _ Dion N. Farquhar _ Willa Granger _ Sandra Soli _ Gerald R. Wheeler _ Poetry _ Michele Battiste _ Radames Ortiz _ Brady Rhoades _ Jennifer Weathers _ Helen Wickes _ Fiction _ Allen Gee _ Michelle Panik O'Neill _ Creative Nonfiction _ Susana Chavez-Silverman _ Susana Chavez-Silverman _ Liz Dolan _ Author Bios