Contents: April 2010

Thoughts from the Editor
~ Kate Lydon

Stories

The Season of the Damn Men
~ Kate Lydon

All those interests I pursued in my spare time provided me with lots of enjoyment, but a scarcity of available men, unless you count the nude construction worker who served as a model in my figure drawing class.

Dear Janis Joplin
~ Jackie Echteler

You were always there, Janis, your intense bluesy voice crackling into the night. I wanted to be a rebel like you.

Dress for Success
~ Sandy Lichtenstein

No – we had saddle shoes, and you got to have them first, Sandy, because your feet were bigger than mine.

What did bigger feet have to do with it?

Proud as a Peahen
~ Kristin Flick Strid

That is when we learned peacocks have sharp claws and can jump seven feet high.

Autobiography of Nathaniel Watson Ladd, Part 7

I lived at the Galt House and at the time of the financial panic of 1873, I could not get money to pay my board bill. There was, I think, about a month when nobody paid any bills.

Poetry

Gloria Kresch: a Pantoum
   Sisters
Zea Ginsburg Piver:
3 Poems from the Papa Poetry series
      Loss
      Double Loss
      The Eve of Your Dying

Mary Porth: Studies in Triolet
     Vaya Con Dios
     Working at the Free Clinic
     Intersecting Lives

Janice Ewing: 2 Poems
     Fifth Grade
     Lonesome
Joe Quinton: 4 Poems
     (Untitled - 1)
     (Untitled - 2)
     Dreams
     Divorce