Issue #8 of Whalelane (archive URL: http://www.whalelane.com) has been published and is available online. This issue has writing by Christopher Barnes, R.T. Castleberry, Melanie Faith, Alan Girling, Brandon Shiimoda, and John Sweet; new media works by Esselia Ferron, Dorothee Lang and Garret Lynch; books by Janet Goldner; and landscape paintings by Nina Kuriloff.