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Issue 28

FEATURES

Letters from Readers 4

Voice Over by Rod Clark 5

Rosebud Notes 10

Go Figure by P. S. Mueller 133

Eye of the Beholder by Rod Clark 125

Crossword Puzzle by Melanie Werth 136

Afterwords by Rick Geary 137

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

THE DRYING-OUT MAN by Lawrence Keel 16

DRIFTWOOD by Thomas R. Smith 22

AT THE "IT’LL DO" MOTEL by Terry Godbey 23

COULDN’T FIND HER

IN DREAMS BEGIN OTHER DREAMS by Julie Berman 26

THE UNSPOILED VACATION by Shoshauna Shy 31

OMNIA VINCIT AMOR by Robert Cormack 32

NOT QUITE PURPLE by Yuvi Zalkow 38

PLAYING THE SONG AGAIN

TWO TUNES by John Michael Cummings 44

ADVICE TO MY DAUGHTER AT FOURTEEN IN THE AFTERMATH

              OF THE FIRST FULL MOON by James P. Lenfestey 54

WOULD YOU REMEMBER, COUSIN AARON? by Chayym Zeldis 55

THE RESCUE by Ray Vukcevich 63

MAGIC RAY

TO IRELAND... by Ray Bradbury 68

RENDEZVOUS WITH RAY BRADBURY by Laura Treacy Bentley 69

DEATH, COCKTAILS, ST. KITTS by John Surowiecki 75

ART AND EVIDENCE

KILLING DON by John Allina 78

GOD OF ALL GOOD THINGS by Rick Kemp 84

DESPERATE MEASURES by David Clewell 87

PAPER, SCISSORS, ROCK

ON BEATING by Sandra Beasley 92

GOODWILL TOWARD MAN by James Bickers 93

JOE (AND ROSE) AT THE HOLY HOLE by Lisa Lenard-Cook 96

THE HERMIT’S WORK and THE HERMIT’S FALL by Bernard Quetchenbach 103

THE JEWELLED PRIZE

IN THE GROOVE by Fran Rall 106

THE ENCOUNTER by Henri Pierre-Roché (translated by Walter Bruno) 107

POND by M. J. Iuppa 117

FRAME BY FRAME

TO MAKE A POEM YOUR OWN An Appreciation of the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker by John Lehman 120

ANTI-HEROES: THE GUYS WE LOVE TO HATE (excerpt) by Gareth Higgins 127

 

 

ronellis@hughes.net 04/17/08