Portland Monthly features Wordstock Short Fiction 2008 competition winner "Calendar Girl Arrested, Freed"

Kurt Rheinheimer's 2008 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition–winning story, "Calendar Girl Arrested, Freed" appears in the December issue of Portland Monthly.

But it's comma, comma, comma, comma, comma chameleon over there at Portland Monthly, which features three variations on punctuating the title. We have the online version:

Calendar Girl, Arrested. Freed [comma following "Girl"; period after "Arrested"]

Then there is the title as it appears in the print version:

Calendar Girl, Arrested, Freed [comma following "Girl" and another comma after "Arrested"]

Finally, there is the title as it appears on the contents page of the print version:

Calendar Girl Arrested, Freed [comma following "Arrested"]

So which, if any of these, is correct? That would be the punctuation you find on the contents page of the print version: "Calendar Girl Arrested, Freed" (with the online version being, perhaps, the greatest violator of original intent):

But look at me, getting all hung up over some silly commas and a period. This story is so good it doesn't matter how you punctuate the title, and how many stories out there can make that claim? I could actually apply some simplistic literary analysis to justify each of these variations, and thereby reveal some hitherto-unsuspected genius to some carefully crafted editorial decisions, but Kurt would undoubtedly step in and tell me to just stop it, and stop it now.

To which I say, "OK, I, will, stop, it, now."