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Quick Tour, 6
No. 6 Billion checks in, as an over-booked century bears down...
A Context for Contents of our Winter '99-2000 Issue
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Leslie Garret &
Cormac McCarthy,
As one lay dying, the other realized his greatest fame
Don Williams, 116
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New Millennium Awards VIII
Special Section - Read the Winners, 119-153
1st Place, Fiction
Sarah C. Honenberger,
Deep Breathing, 120
'After he backed out of the garage, he toyed with the idea of running in and sweeping her off her feet, kidnapping her. One time she'd pretended she was abducting him, mask and all, fake gun...'
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1st Place, Nonfiction
Jodi Varon,
When Quizzac Was Cherry, 136
'Quizzac did not tell me the answers to the questions I longed to ask, like why my mother had begun to sleep in the cold basement or why my father, a pacific man, began a rant against Red baiting...'
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1st Place, Poetry
Sam Witt,
Late Summer Fever, 132
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'Once, as a boy, they laid me in a bathtub of ice
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To break my fever.
The bird with a tail of so many bright colors that whispered its heat into my ear
Was my only friend. Not those tall shapes
Those tall shapes moving so far above me, but a blue ripple,...'
Honorable Mentions, 119
New Contest Guidelines, 153
Y2K Writing Prize
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Cover Painting,
"Mother and Child",
by Mark Maxwell
Cover Design
by Rhonda Swicegood
of Hart Graphics
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Introducing 'Pacific-northwest Gothic'
Lance Weller, 10
The Seven-League Boots
'A soft, hollow knock as the shovel blade stikes the box. Trevor stops singing. The trees stand thick to hoard the shadows, seem to bend over him as though to hide him from the sky. He leans the shovel against the lip of the grave and kneels to touch the thin soil that separates him from his father's grave...'
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Creative Nonfiction about the bride she loves
Diana Sabot, 29
Best Woman
'When Melissa meets me at the Madison airport, she smells different. A sweet delicate musk- very adult. Liz Claiborne? I can't tell. She's cut her hair short around the ears and wears a blue linen dress that pulls across her waist. In one glance I take in her body, notice where it's heavier, where she shows...
I see the envy in her eyes...'
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A spiritual odyssey aboard Apollo 14
Tony Taddei, 42
Man and the Moon
'We are all alone and he is one of us. Astronaut. Edgar. Ed Mitchell. The 'brain.' He levitates under the crew couches in a state of suspense... in zero gravity- not up, not down... alone with his secret sense of space. And time. It is winter night on earth, February, 1971, and inside Apollo... Edgar chooses a number...'
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NMW First Fiction- Words carved in stone
David E. Joyner, 52
'Il Premio'
'Matteo Verrocchio is in his studio. He's been talking to the stone again. He sits beside it on a drafting stool, his chisel in his lap. He's tired. His chin keeps dropping to his chest... He's back in Tuscany. Fifteen years old. Thin, but strong and muscular from working in the quarries... blessed with stature...'
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The meaning of live revealed... sort of
Scott McNutt, 60
Forgetting Salvation
'What do you do when you have an epiphany? My immediate impulse was to share it with someone. I didn't suffer a religious conversion, and I was not humble and awed. I was excited... proud, because I knew I had in my head something that would do a beat-up world good...'
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The Janus File- a tribute to...
Howard Nemerov, 107
Sarah Maté recalls a rich encounter
'I was out waling early when I heard my name. There he was, ambling my way, his middle-aged gray complementing his tweed jacket... We were both early morning walkers in a world where coffee was not served until eight.'
'Sorry to hear you've had a rough time.'
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photo by
Herb Weitman
courtesy of
Washington
Photographic
Services
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Poetry Suite, Our largest selection yet, 84-106, Recent Poems by
Fredrick Zydek, Laura Still, Kay Sloan Beth Walker, Marilyn Kallet, Heather Joyner, Linda Parsons Marion, Geraldine Connolly, Wendell Ricketts, Lavinia Andrei Jennings, Mark Terrill, Bill Noble, Ellen Bass, Walt McDonald, Glori Simmonxs, Emma Trelles, Jonathan Berkowitz, John Rybicki, and NMW First Verse by new-comer Carolyn Miller.
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