Contents
- Special Sections & Departments
Interviews & Profiles 1996-2001
The best of the best from our first five years, including…
John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, William Kennedy, Sharyn McCrumb, Shelby Foote, Lucille Clifton, Lee Smith, Norman Mailer, and more, page 8
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McCarthy
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McCrumb
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Updike
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New Millennium Awards XI
Read the Winners, Special Section - 37 to 65
1st Place, Fiction
Ann Bronston,
Reruns,
38
'The marriage went south, the kids went north; I moved into a trailer on a side street…. My neighbor to the right… has two dogs and a goat. Her name is Barbara and she scares me….'
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1st Place, Nonfiction
Melita Schaum,
The Weight of Spring Wind,
50
'Here in the Midwest, the ruin is rapid: one day nothing but blue light and air so thin it detonates with the gunshot sound of tree limbs cracking in the cold…'
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1st Place, Poetry (tie)
Donna Doyle,
My Mother Climbing Her Family Tree,
46
'...I understand
why my mother climbs her family tree…
further and further away from her
mother's unsteady touching…/ Why King Robert Bruce's heart is carried close….'
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1st Place, Poetry (tie)
Elizabeth Haukaas,
The Hummingbird Heart,
48
'Picture this:
a picture inside a picture:
a girl-baby curled inside her amnion, her girl-baby eggs safe inside their own tiny jewel cases…'
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Honorable Mentions, 36,
New Contest Guidelines, 65
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Cover Art,
"Stardust Over the Homestead"
(watercolor and gouache),
by Carol Bowles
Cover Design
by Rhonda Swicegood
of Hart Graphics
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Letters to the Editor,
from Readers & Contributors,
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Email to the Guestbook
from our website,
www.mach2.com,
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Notes on Contributors,
corrections & Acknowledgements,
151-53
Millennial Moments,
photograph by Richard P. Remine,
154
Humor, our biggest bunch yet:
Cover Letter by Joe Lersky,
155,
Observations by
Don Williams,
156,
Light Verse by David Joyner,
158
Writing 101,
'Great Opening Lines', advice to writers by Don Williams,
160
A very contingent love affair…
Joseph G. Peterson,
66
Memories of Clair
'I was no longer in the dream, but in her and Paul's room. I would lie awake for a long time in the dark and wait….'
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She'll do what it takes to save a veteran…
J. D. Kohler,
82
Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Foot?
'He is the shyest boy I've ever seen. There is no reason for Wendell to get so godawful embarrassed. Everybody else is asleep. Nobody is watching us, nobody sees Wendell so helpless…'
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Hippies gone to seed and salvation…
Linda Seals Talbert,
90
Ché's Hands
'Sprouting from the fingertips of the skelatal hands are hundreds of spindly but sturdy roots. The viril roots climb up and up and spread geometrically with each vertical foot, up, up through the rich, black soil….'
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Charms and spells in a classical land…
Pamela Schoenewaldt,
102
A Magic You Can't Use
'Mago Luciano doesn't do magic tricks. He's the real thing. He puts people back in love. I saw him last Saturday… face as round and soft as a tomato….'
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NMW First Fiction, on comfort and mortality
Avis Lang,
108
To Keep the Chill at Bay
'Fran's mother kept calling it a down comforter, even though wads of wool stuffing poked through… its decaying silky cover… but if Rose was happier envisioning tiny white feathers, why should Fran point out the facts…?'
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Creative Nonfiction… in a surreal key…
Christian Horlick,
113
On Being Capable
'Capable scurried from beneath the bed… ran into the street and got lost in a parade. There were clowns and girls with batons, and brass trumpets, and elephants …. Capable was missing….'
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When reality wears the mask of fiction…
Danielle Ofri,
122
Time of Death: 3:27 a.m.
'The patient arrived in the ER with a ruptured aorta from a car accident…'
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The Janus File ~ a tribute to…
James Agee,
129
Praise for a famous man, by Don Williams
'Self-absorbed and fearful of dying, James Agee stormed through life…'
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Poetry Suite, 133-150, Recent Poems by…
Antler, Tama Baldwin, Laura Golden Bellotti, Allen C. Fischer, Marilyn Kallet, Christine Boyka Kluge, Jeff Daniel Marion, Sara Maté, Simon Perchik, Kathleen Hunkele Schardin, Laurel Smith, Cheryl Snell, Laura Still, Gerald R. Wheeler, Elaine Zimmerman, and NMW Firse Verse from David Joyner, Harvey Lane, and the late Dorothy Duerson Horne, 1906 to 2001, with special thanks to Ruth Hoglan.
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