EDITORIAL COMMENT Occasional Notes:We Still Need Heroes
TONY VICK We Still Need Heroes 6
Remembering 8
Note to the future: All of the following works were written before 2020
JONATHAN B FERRINI “The Golden State” 23
TOM KROPP Ferocious Foxy 36
CHRISTOPHER AMENTA A Clean Towel 44
FRANCES KOZIAR The Years of My Life 61
JULIE OWSIK ACKERMAN Across the Border 68
MICHAEL J SHEPLEY What She Said 85
PAUL BOWMAN Dad 91
J P DALEY Peg Of His Heart 107
MARTIN H LEVINSON Notes from an Obsessive Director 122
DOLLY REYNOLDS Lo, How a Rose 133
LIZA WOLFF-FRANCIS The Synchronization of Marriage 141
SUSAN TRIEMERT Only the Pretty Ones 158
DENNIS VANNATTA Black and White and a Certain Shade of
Green: My Life in Living Color 10
VIVIAN LAWRY Running on about my Wedding 41
LAUREN ELIZABETH Purple Dragonflies 47
MADELINE WISE The Scratch Bin 55
VINCENT J TOMEO Physics and Mama 65
MICHAEL COHEN The Cross and the Windmills 102
WILLIAM HART What Do You Want to Be? 119
LAURA BERNSTEIN-MACHLAY Bargains 125
FAYE REDDECLIFF Supermarket Saturday 131
BARBARA SABOL Tending 22
WILLIAM OGDEN HAYNES Trading Up 31
Hope 32
Taking a Chance on Happy Hour 33
Blackface 34
Still Life on Plywood 35
NEIL CARPATHIOS Love Account 38
LISA MECKEL Southern Australia 40
STEVE DEUTSCH Tilth 43
BETH BAYLEY Rocket Uncle Delivery Co. 45
Shaw Plaza, Balestier 46
Postcard from the Baby Shower 46
NICKOLAS DUARTE Stella 49
ROCHELLE JEWEL SHAPIRO Oh, Rifle 51
Back-Front-Door 52
Bibblebabble 52
Fallen Hair 53
I Love You Like German Black Forest Cake 53
GAIL LANGSTROTH Blue Indestructible 54
ANTHONY RABY Modern Poetry 57
Every Writer’s Fear 57
MARISA P CLARK Déjà-Vu 57
Ash Wednesday 59
LISA LOW Doing a Good Job at Sixty 64
Iowa Heat 65
THOMAS A WEST, JR TWINS 66
CLARE COOPER MARCUS Dead Pheasants 67
MARC KAMINSKY In the Sound of Shattering Glass 74
The Gift of a Story 77
In Hiding 81
An Ordinary Life 83
MAUREEN GERAGHTY Narcissus 90
Rain 91
GARY GALSWORTH A Steady Trickle 102
The Railing 102
ANNETTE VELASQUEZ Hag as Goddess 104
MEREDITH TREDE Bring Him Home 106
JENNIE WHITE A Film about Menstrual Equality Won an
Oscar and I Apologized to My Mother
for the Acceptance Speech 116
Baby? 117
KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY You have nothing to be afraid of, anymore— 122
MICHAEL SANDLER Wishbone 125
ROBERT CARR Air Pocket 129
Small Hooked Things 130
PAULA GOLDMAN Overcoat as Symbol 132
ANITA PINATTI In Praise of Charlie 139
STEVE COUGHLIN Waiting Room 140
PATRICIA CANTERBURY Favorite Fishing Hole 155
CHARLES HALSTED The Dawn Freight 156
Boxed In 157
MATTHEW J SPIRENG Chipmunk, Morning Run, Big Sky,
Montana 167
Harvesting Ginseng with My Brother 168
Speaking of the Weather in Upstate New York, February 169
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