Gay and Lesbian Theme Views and Mechanics Publisher's Note Editor's Note Review of This Is Not For You Review of Potato Queen Crossword (Solution Posted in March. Printable version in pdf format of journal.) Creative Nonfiction Tunis, Forever By John Champagne Bisexuality 101 By Evelyn McFarland Poetry Blackouts By Steve Rydman Self Loathing By Steve Rydman A Boy Reads YM By Steve Rydman I Finally Found Me By Lucretia Randle Acorn Boy Above the Conclave By James Penha Fiction As If In Time Of War (1985) By Christopher T. Leland General Works Creative Nonfiction Stone Musings #5 By Mike Munsil Ascent Into Being By Holly Mitchell Fiction Come Winter By Sandra M. McDow The End of Stories By Sonia Vora Coal Blood By Tom Bennitt About the Contributors © 2006, River Walk Journal and respective authors and artists. All rights reserved. Do not use or reproduce without permission. River Walk Journal, Inc. Board of Directors Chairman - Elizabeth Ross Vice Chairman - Joseph Koch Secretary/Treasurer - Geri Stock-Ross Editorial Director - Patti Kurtz, DA Literacy Director - Bill Mausteller Policy Director - vacant Advisory Board Chairman - Patti Kurtz, DA Asst. Chairman - Dan Lachenman, PhD Samuel Hazo Christopher Leland Edwin Yoder Joseph Bathanti Journal Staff Publisher - Elizabeth Ross Editor-In-Chief - Joseph Koch Sen. Fiction Editor - Patti Kurtz Sen. Poetry Editor - Neeldhara Misra Sen. Creative Nonfiction Editor - Brenda Coxe Contributing Editor - Robert Dittman Publicity Director (PA) - Geri Stock-Ross For information about submissions, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/submission.html. Questions about promotions, subscribers' services, and advertising should be sent to publisher@riverwalkjournal.org. River Walk Journal, Inc. is a non-profit corporation run entirely by volunteers. For information about volunteer opportunities and internships, visit http://www.riverwalkjournal.org/volunteer.html. |
A Boy Reads YM By Steve Rydman He's in it for the tips. To learn how to give his mouth some lip service to exfoliate with special buffing beads. To be a beach chick purrfectly nice with a touch of trés jolie in a French Kitty outfit. To buff up his bare midriff, unhide it with a cropped denim topper that shows how less can be much, much more. Or maybe become an earthy girl feet firmly on the ground the one all the girls turn to when they have boy trouble. After all, the boy has boys on the brain BIG TIME! He wants spray-on perfect legs in an instant. He wants embarrassing facial hair to disappear in just minutes. He wants a little blush on his cheekbones to make him look healthy and well rested. He wants smooth talking hair. He's a cover girl. He'll sing, dance, act, learn to connect a nice roundhouse kick to a nasty bad guy's jaw. He'll even perfect an eyelining technique that really puts those starlet superpowers to the test. He will deny himself ice cream, pizza, even bread for years all in the name of thinner thighs and a flatter tummy. He'll get a boyfriend like Rae's Marcus who serenades her with his R. Kelly voice and only hits her when she can't make his b-ball games. He'll be a good girl with a sly smile on glittery lips, a big red sucker in his mouth and a baby tee printed with his new motto: Good Girls are Bad Girls that Don't Get Caught. |