Table of Contents


Views and Mechanics
Publisher's Note
Editor's Note
Review of Language and Mind
Review of This Is My Best
Review of Lost in the Void
Crossword
(Solution Posted in September. Printable version in pdf format of journal.)
May/Jun Crossword Solution
Creative Nonfiction
Puttin' on My Pearls
By Cathryn Braswell
My Dinner with Gacy
By Andy Martello
Mysteries of the Shenandoah Valley
By Casey Clabough
Getting Lucky
By Dale Purvis
Poetry
Your Mind and You Are Our Sargasso Sea
By Lita Sorensen
Midsummer
By Lita Sorensen
Windows
By Lita Sorensen
Simple Man
By B.K. Birch
The View from Here
By Mary Hudock
The Dinner Party
By Ruth Mark
Fiction
It's in the Stars
By Linda Gallant Potts
An Intimate Evening with Papa
By Lance Garrison Ballard
The Prank
By Terri L. Knight
A Pocketful of Starflakes
By Leslie Wolter
Cover Art
Photography by Seth Brown
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Midsummer
By Lita Sorensen

The heat-tinged sky
With its roiling trees
Blue-pewter stain at edges
Breathes silently,
Finally as envelopes. Even
The earth is sealed
Lulled by insects entranced
With their own song, hidden
From the light. Everywhere, too
The green hush of sacred lawns
Spreading from house to house
Contains cast shadows
Brown and violet near the porch steps
Where Maiden Hair grows.

And only reluctantly -
Silent paws over apology -
Does a small white cat
cut diagonally across
the blank field.