New Millennium Writings, Volume 5, Issue 2

Volume 5, Issue 2 -- Winter 2000-01

Contents - Special Sections & Departments

Ernest Hemingway,
The late literary lion would be 101 had he lived on… but then… he did…
by John C. Pine, 132
Our Janus File Tribute

Hemingway as he appears on the front and back cover of Picturing Hemingway,
by Frederick Voss (1999, Yale Press)

New Millennium Awards X
Read the Winners, Special Section - 69 to 102

1st Place, Fiction Loren McAuley, What I Heard, What I Know, 70 'My mother was beautiful. She sat in a low sand chair, her long legs in front, one outstretched… I saw how her bathing suit burst at the top, how her arms were thin and graceful like a dancer's. Dark hair, red lips. She was beautiful. Sexy, too. I knew that from what my father said. Things I heard when they fought…'	1st Place, Nonfiction Catherine Reid, The Return, 86 'I think I know the night noises at last- the knock and scramble of mice in the walls; the huff of wind across the chimney; the bristle of windows in their loose frames. Yet tonight comes a cry that hauls me out of my sleep… a chorus of wailing above a percussion of yips, excited and eerie and twitching my heart.'
1st Place, Poetry Ken McCullough, All Around the Circle, 82 'In those days coal incensed the air and quirky sailors/ took their smokes from Players' cavalier square boxes…'	1st Place, 20th Century Writing Prize Askold Skalsky, The 30s in the Kingdom of Necessity, 99 'We are coming to terms with what has been revealed what has been recorded, unearthed-'
Honorable Mentions, 69 New Contest Guidelines, 102

Cover Art,
"Secret Stories: Queens' Game"
(French dyes on silk),
by Marybeth Boyanton

Cover Design
by Rhonda Swicegood
of Hart Graphics

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Departments --
Letters to the Editor, from Readers & Contributors, 6
Email to the Guestbook from our website, www.mach2.com, 7
Notes on Contributors, corrections & Acknowledgements, 152-54
Millennial Moments, photographs by Richard P. Remine, 155
Humor our biggest bunch yet: Cover Letter by Meg Larson, 156,
Observations by Don Williams, 157, Light Verse by Judy Digregorio, 159
Writing 101, 'Break These Rules', advice to writers by Don Williams, 160

Featured Writers

A mystic in the material world…
Robert Skidmore, 30
Saunter
'Ice: the object of his desire. The humidity of summer was in full blast. He had concluded a most satisfying yoga session…'

A love story in reverse…
Bruce Bauman, 40
Day Time
"This is how it ended. 'Good luck then. You can do it now with someone else. You're only forty-one. You've got plenty of time…'"

Reliving Vietnam at the office…
J. D. Kohler, 15
Operations
'Down by the river the trees turn soonest in the fall, so I parallel the river on my way to work. Fall is my favorite time, when the leaves might be a different color every day, and I wouldn't want to miss any of it. I've spent too much of my life in place where leaves don't change color…'

A recommended instrument…
Gina Ochsner, 8
Yard-a-pult
'On cloudless days, I love to watch the wingless flights of couches and tables. Dead anuimals are good, too, their feet and tails, wings and fins stiff and unbending, clipping the top of my laurel hedge, their bodies sailing into the abandoned dump on the other side…'

An incidental deflowering…
Diana Amsterdam, 24
Larry
'The first time I lost my virginity I was sixteen, but I didn't mean to, so I decided, with the wise counsel of my wise older sister Iris, who was eighteen, not to count it…'

NMW First Fiction- Death on a river deep Joe Pardue, 49 Catfish 'There is a desolate moment on the river at the end of night. It is when cold starlight above and warm flow below have compressed the haze into a chenille blanket all tucked into the riverbanks…'

NMW First Fiction- On mending walls Catherine C. Henn, 58 The Rock Wall 'Willie stood idly by the rock wall watching the old man sweat. Vernon heaved two more rocks into place before Willie becamse frustrated with being ignored…'

Poetry Suite, Our best assortment yet, 104-130, Recent Poems by
Michael Atkinson, Barry Ballard, Marybeth Boyanton, Geordie Buxton, Donna Doyle, Clifford Paul Fetters, Jeff Friedman, Rob Griffith, Jeff Hardin, Marilyn Kallet, Stephen Knauth, Florence Larson, Cheryl Latif, Walt McDonald, Michael McIrvin, John Rybicki, Bob Slaymaker, Laura Still, Dianalee Velie and… NMW First Verse by newcomer Sharon Goldyn.

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