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A Mother’s Breath
Friday November 6, 2009
There’s something magical about going to the movies alone, especially on the first chilly day of the season. Surrounded by strangers, I feel something of the childlike thrill of comfort at bedtime reading, perhaps under the sheet, perhaps not, while around you the rest of the family goes about its business. Mom and Dad in the....
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Cheap Grace
Thursday November 5, 2009
I am an American with a moderate amount of credit card debt who watches cable TV, reads US magazine in the grocery store line, and drinks Starbucks coffee. These proclivities do not make me cool in the terribly earnest circles I frequent. If I were more cool, I would not....
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What Can’t Be Changed
Wednesday November 4, 2009
Friday was unseasonably warm and blustery, with a cold front moving in. The week had been trying and my wife Jill and I were eager to drive an hour east of town after work for a friend’s birthday get-together, which we knew would be overflowing with good food, good conversation and, if the rain held off, a bonfire....
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The Little Island
Tuesday November 3, 2009
I’m pregnant again, twelve weeks now, and I’m experiencing the same disconnected feeling I did the first time. I’ve never felt so alone as when there is life growing inside me. Every morbid impulse in my psyche flares in the first trimester, and my thoughts linger on mortality....
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Facing the Truth
Monday November 2, 2009
I’m not too happy with myself these days. Just as the leaves are falling from the tree in my front yard, returning its limbs to their stark, spindly state, it’s a season for me, too, of cutting back, of paring things down to their essence. My birthday was a couple of weeks ago (I turned....
Artist of the Month
Kelcey Parker
It is sometimes offered as a tenet of fiction that you can get away with absurdity if you do it emphatically enough, and early enough in the story. If you can seduce us into suspending our disbelief at the beginning, we’re yours for the whole ride. Kelcey Parker executes this strategy admirably in her short stories.
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Issue 63
Art by Agnes Martin, James MacMillan on music, interview with Tim Gautreaux, poems by John F. Deane.
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