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