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Table of Contents

Fiction
Jeanette Erlbaum “Trying Friendship”
Medardo Fraile “The Half-Wit”
Lois Lindblad “Crazy Sorrow”
Jack Matthews “The King Solomon of the Market District”
Alan Morris “Mrs. Gottschall’s Adjustment”
Doris Read “Montana Poindexter”
Randall Silvis “Watching the Dolphins”
Lawrence P. Spingarn “The Barn Chamber”

Poetry
Cherryl Armstrong “Hypothetical Heron”
W.E. Butts Two Poems
David Citino “Letter From the Shaman: Meaning to Live Forever, Meaning Not To”
Alice Cone “House”
Mary Crow Two Poems
Patricia A. Davey “it’s all in the seasoning”
Carol V. Davis Three Poems
William Virgil Davis “In the Cold Air Register”
Ken Denberg “Sad”
Dave Engel “rat rat”
Gary Fincke “The Covered-Dish Supper Fear”
Elton Glaser “Chicken on Sunday”
Jeff Gundy “Meetings”
Fleda Brown Jackson Two Poems
David Kelly Two Poems
Richard Michelson Three Poems
Lloyd L. Mills “Man on a marsupial couch”
James Reiss “Arrowhead Drive”
Michelle Blake Simons Two Poems
Barry Spacks “Awakening”
David Swickard Two Poems
Pamela Uschuck “Trying to Return the Dying to the Sea”
Jeff Worley Two Poems

Articles
Roy K. Bird “Wright Morris: Through a Flaw in the Window of Fiction”
Kerry Grant “On and Off the Main Line: The Failure of Compromise in the Fiction of Thomas McGuane”

What We’re Reading
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry edited by Paul Auster
Finding the Broken Man by Scott Cairns
The Best American Short Stories 1982 edited by John Gardner with Shannon Ravenel
Notebook of Shadows: Selected Poems 1974-1980 by Phillipe Denis translated by Mark Irwin
Northern Letter by Dave Kelley
Great Lakes Cycle by Dave Kelly
Intimate Apparel by Terry Stokes
Light From Dead Stars by Pamela Uschuk