Table of Contents


Views and Mechanics
Publisher's Note
Editor's Note
Review of Bliss
Review of Atheist Manifesto
Review of The Stones Cry Out
Film review of "Karov La Bayit"
Creative Nonfiction
A Reverence for Words
By Virginia Hendry
For the Wife of Bath and the Wife of Yeats, I Give Thanks
By Sara J. Ford
Birth
By Clint Pearson
Poetry
Gong Fu
By Tim J. Brennan
Phases
By Tolu Ogunlesi
They Are Driving Their Cars Again, They Are Driving...
By Anne Cammon
Death of the Travelers
By Abigail Grant
Leaves
By Matt Gee
Fiction
The Wood Splitter
By Michael Phillips
Boogie & Sarah Leigh
By Sandra L. West
What Happened to Matt Dillon
By Chris Drangle
Red, Manhattan, 523
By Beth Hogan
Titanic Hat
By D.K. McGill
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Review of The Stones Cry Out
By Sibella Giorello
ISBN: 0800731603


The Stones Cry Out is an engrossing mystery that grasps readers on page one and doesn’t let go. Sibella Giorello’s debut novel is exactly what one should expect from a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist.

Raleigh Harmon, a new FBI agent, finds herself chasing evidence in a case that no one but her wants to honestly solve. Her supervisor repeatedly requests that she close the case, as Harmon continues to find evidence proving that there is more going on than what is seen on the surface. Harmon’s background in forensic geology proves pivotal in solving what her colleagues consider a nuisance civil rights case, and she is the only one who can prove what really happened when a black businessman and a white detective plummeted from a rooftop in Richmond in front of hundreds of onlookers. It is a race against time to find evidence and willing witnesses.

Giorello offers readers a thrilling ride, and an introduction to a character that should be granted an encore appearance in a future novel. The Stones Cry Out will be an excellent high interest text for instructors in criminal justice and related fields, geology, and any course exploring race relations in the South.