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Special Section --- New Millennium Awards V, 27
Read the Winners...
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| A Commanche brave's guest for buffalo medicine Allen Wier, 54 Two Talks ~ From 'Tehano,' a work-in-progress ~ 'Two Talks blew air from his chest. He felt as if he could breathe out forever, so full of his good life was he. He sat back down on his saddle and White Rump slowed to an easy, rocking gait. A dark shape crossed the sky far ahead, and Two Talks followed...' |
A bittersweet chronicle of disposable lives Anthony Wallace, 66 Upstairs Room 'I had been gone three days, shacked in Beasley's Point with a bad-tempered cocktail waitress named Irene Smith, but Irene Smith was not entirely the point of it, as Irene herself eventually learned...' |
| A mission to appease that goddess Love John Baird, 74 Sounding Stones 'When Billy Amos married, folks along the river smiled a faint incredulity or laughed behind their hands.' |
One girl's nightmares and dreams Julie Anne McNary, 87 Blessings from the Sandwoman 'The first time I saw a horse die was at the slaughterhouse in Kingston. I was twelve. I was helping my Uncle Mike at the time. He was a "knacker-man;.' At least that's what Daddy called him when they were fighting' |
| First Fiction, a girl, a boy and a motorcycle Rebecca C. Branam, 104 Bettering Ourselves 'His name is Arthur, but I call him Chris, because his last name is Christie and everyone calls him that. He grew up in my neighborhood, two blocks away in the direction of the river.' |
Dramatic, accessible, delicious... Poetry Suite, 122-133 Recent Poems by Marilyn Kallet, David Hunter, Katherine Smith, D. James Smith, John Sweet, Mariahadessa Ekere, Nzuriwatu Tallie, Christine Boyka Kluge, Linda Lee Harper, Anthony Russel White, Ben Passikoff and Jody Zorgdrager |
| Memories of early life from a Southern icon Shelby Foote, 134 Excerpted from 'Growing Up Sothern,' by Fred Brown and Jeanne McDonald 'Just off a busy street in midtown Memphis, Shelby Foote's grand old Tudor house sits cloistered behind a brick-walled garden of tangled vines and flowering shrubs. To enter that secret place is to be transported to an old Southern setting that might have been created by Faulkner...' |
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