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Fall 2006

  • David Corbett

    He felt desperate for the rains, mosquitoes be damned.

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  • Olivia Chia-lin Lee

    In my eyes is the flame of the adolescent he wants to hire.

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  • Tom Grimes

    The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.

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  • Ned Parker

    He said he had come back to the prison because it was home.

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  • James and Kay Salter

    The wine was administered to Theo’s lips, and then the rest of us.

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  • Michael Wolff

    The talk was heady, but the conversations were dead-ends.

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  • Ward Just

    When he bent close to her, his balaclava glowed silvery in the dying sunlight.

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Fall 2006
Editors’ Note

Fiction

  • David CorbettSin Vergüenza
  • Tom GrimesRedemption Song, Part Three
  • Ward JustFlorette

Nonfiction

  • Olivia Chia-lin LeePimp
  • Ned ParkerAfter Saddam
  • James and Kay SalterLife Is Meals
  • Michael WolffLetter from Mexico

Readers' Narratives

  • Robert BeattyGrays Peak, Colorado
  • Debra HughesWhite Sands National Monument, New Mexico
  • Mimi KuschAlbuquerque, New Mexico
  • Christian LewisThe Financial District to Central Park and Back, New York City
  • Cory McAlisterCitizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Portland District Office, Portland, Oregon
  • Scott McCabeThe Red Line Inbound,
    Six Miles from Boston

Classics

  • Elizabeth BowenNotes on Writing a Novel

First & Second Looks

  • Joseph ConradThe Secret Agent
  • Gail GodwinThe Making of a Writer
  • V. S. NaipaulThe Engima of Arrival
  • Reynolds PriceA Long and Happy Life
  • Edward SaidOn Late Style

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