New Millennium Writings, Volume 3, Issue 2

Volume 3, Issue 2 --- Fall & Winter 1998

Contents

Quick Tour, 6
In the Beginning, You And I Were There...
A Context for Contents of our Winter 1998-99 issue
by Don Williams

Lee Smith, 11
The Hills that Imprisoned Her Are Now 'Stalking Grounds'
From Growing Up Southern
by Fred Brown & Jeanne McDonald

New Millennium Awards VI
Special Section - Read the Winners

Bob Levy, Mill Valley, CA
1st Place, Fiction
Three Stories, 29
'Every family has its story. A fable for each new generation. Try to be as smart, as brave as your great grandpa so-and-so, you great aunt so-and-so. Our family was no exception...'

Ann Peters, Greenville, SC
1st Place, Nonfiction
The Bridge Jumpers, 48
'Surrounded by hills, Mostar, a city in Bosnia Herzegovina, is a pile of stones at the bottom of a rocky bowl, a perfect target from above...'

Claire Bateman, Mankato, MN
1st Place, Poetry
The Fall, 45
'This is the Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Falling, conceived, researched, photographed, compiled, copyrighted, published, & distributed by me. In our family, falling is bi-directionally hologynic, "inherited soley in the female line, presumably through transmission as a recessive factor...'

Honorable Mentions, 27
New Contest Guidelines, 63
Y2K Writing Prize

Cover Painting,
In the Beginning, You,
by Mark Maxwell

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Departments ---
Letters to the Editor, from Readers & Contributors, 8
Illustrations, including cover, by Mark Maxwell, & 10, 28, 65 & 75
The Janus File, tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by Laura J. Underwood, 76
History's End, Deconstructing 'Decade-ism,' by Jack Neely, 149
Notes on Contributors and Acknowledgements, 154
Millennial Moments, photographs, Paul Efird & Richard P. Remine, 156
Humor cartoon & light verse by Charlie Daniel & David A. Goldstein, 158
The Writing Well, advice to writers by Linda Parsons Marion, 160
Display Advertisements, 3, 9, 93, 121, 135, & 143

Featured Writers

The story of a rabbi's haunting advice
David Hunter, 64
And Life Stands Explained
'So, the world stands on your shoulders today. You should change you name to Atlas, maybe. Now he had a reason for a backache, but a young man like you, it couldn't hurt to be out laughing with the girls, enjoying life...'

Photo by J. Miles Cary

The Janus File- a fictive tribute to...
Edgar Allan Poe, 74
Resurrected by Laura J. Underwood
'Midnight found me dazed from sleep deprivation and nodding into my keyboard, but with an essay on a nineteenth century gothic writer of American literature due tomorrow, I could hardly call it quits. Besides, I practically had the family library to myself... My only company was my black cat Raven...'

A young woman's quest for identity
Heidi Krauth, 80
Rococo Decisions
'Black stenciled sparrows fly on mirrors, over reflected double-decker buses... The people are duplicated and cut in half by lines and angles in the mirrors. Their features are warped...'

First Fiction, a story of evil transferred
Linda Seals (Talbert), 94
Eyewitness
'I never seen a mass murderer, I told Germy. Not in the flesh. Not to know one anyhow. That's why we need to get a loko at him when he's in the courtroom, I tried to sound convincing...'

A story of an artist and his mentor
Don Williams, 106
Marco and the Dead Man
'I knocked on Marco Mirandala's door that day and he opened it, pointed his bony finger at me and said 'You-are-a-dead-man,' emphasizing each word, so that the accusation entered whole, like a bullet in the heart...'

Let's start with Hemingway, shall we
Poetry Suite, 122-134
Recent Poems by
David Ray, Jeanne Lutz, Judy Ray, Thomas Rain Crowe Keith Flynn, Deborah Scaperoth, Julie Moulds, Dagan Coppock, Rockard Elman, and Roger Ladd Memmott

The NMW Poetry Interview
Lucille Clifton, 136
by Marilyn Kallet
'I like to think of you at five years old writing sonnets in Depew, New York, and I'm wondering who helped you to get started with that writing. Who opened your mind to poetry?...'

A Tale of Mythic Ritual
Tara L. Masih, 144
The Sin Eater
'Most days, like this one, he lives like a snake coiled peacefully on a warm rock ledge down in the gorge, listening...'

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