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Quick Tour, 6
Has Human Nature Outrun History?
A Context for Contents of our Summer '99 issue
by Don Williams
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photo by
Kelly Wise
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Paul West, 138
The Cosmic Range of An Eccentric Genius Struts Across 10,000 Pages of Prose
by Vincent Czyz
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New Millennium Awards VII
Special Section - Read the Winners, 103-137
Kim Trevathan,
1st Place, Fiction
Rubber Bullets, 105
'On the car seat next to Pike lay a .22 pistol, given to him by his long-dead grandfather, a tobacco farmer who had few words for mouthy young Pike...'
Suzanne Siteman Phillips,
1st Place, Nonfiction
Nepal: Creation and Destruction, 123
'All afternoon Gordon and I are drawn to the same tapestry for sale in dozens of kathmandu's carpet shops. It is a child's tapestry, an alphabet motif of letters and ... images: a rosy apple, an elephant, a tribal queen...'
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Ina Cumpiano,
1st Place, Poetry
Sections from Yo la Malinche, 119
'When, during the battle of Jalisco,
a frightened horse
rolled over Pedro de Alvarado-
perhaps the same sorrel
he took by force before Tenotchitlán-
his men asked
what hurt the most...
"Me duele el alma,"
He said, and the words dripped from his
mouth like old blood. As well they should...'
Honorable Mentions, 103
New Contest Guidelines, 137
Y2K Writing Prize
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Kim Trevathan |
Suzanne Siteman Phillips |
Ina Cumpiano |
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Cover Painting,
TEOTWAWKI,
by Mark Maxwell
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Sensuality and terror on another world
Quentin T. Laredo, 11
The Memory Pool
'The Memory Pool glistened in the suns, when Soph-thrf topped the hill on his seven supple legs. His eyes apprehended the pool through blurred memories of the time his parents had brought him across the Plain of Forever and placed him beneath those glimmering waters...'
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A sweet story of mistaken identity
Jess Wells, 23
The Garage Sale
'The acre of land that Florence Klepfinger called her front yard was dense with fine white birches, forty feet high, their trunks glowing in the afternoon sun. The delicate bark, improbably clean-looking, peeled in tiny ringlets and in broad swatches, dotting the ground like lost letters...'
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A martyr meets the collective mind
Jody Benson, 28
Jason and the Cockroach
'At first, Jason thought it was the moonlight caressing his eyelids with a presence like breath, that awakened him. Stirring slightly, he looked up to see th moon's glow coming through his tiny window to lay itself in a pool...'
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An odyssey of heart & soul
John Norman McLean, 39
Big Fish and the Prize
'Cal Ripken was born in 1991, the year you struck you father the first time. You were watching an Orioles games and he shoved your mom... You picked up the brass lampstead, swinging it down on him until he stopped moving. In jail, you missed high school graduation, then awkwardly returned home...'
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A shocking proposition
Kim Silviera Wolterbeck, 53
Rose's Story
'Thin and long-legged- Rose had a habit of unconsciously wetting her lips with the tip of her tongue that was seductive but not threatening. Seated across from Richard, a rising young star...'
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First Fiction, a tale of innocence betrayed
Ronald Lands, M.D., 69
Runaway
'Mom wouldn't of liked it if she knew the judge had sent me to live with her sister. She always said Harriet was trashy...'
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The Janus File - a fictive tribute to...
William Faulkner, 78
A ghostly reunion by Phyllis D. Kasler
'I became aware of a man sitting by the sam, his back leaning against an old moss-draped oak... His hair was thick and white and he wore a luxurious mustache on his angular and deeply lined face. There was a patrician quality about the way he stood and bowed to me...'
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Our largest selection yet
Poetry Suite, 86-102
Recent Poems by
Marilyn Kallet, Mirlande Jean-Gilles, Mary Elizabeth Parker, Anne Wilson, Christine Boyka Kluge, David Ray, Fredrick Zydek, Laura Still, Sabrina Orah Mark, Michael Van Dyke, Therésa Halsheid, Jeff Callahan, Joanna Anos, Kay Sloan and Beth Walker.
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