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Nexus, Spring 2000 Pt. 2, Wright State University Community Mar 2000

Nexus, Spring 2000 Pt. 2, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

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Nexus, Spring 2000, Wright State University Community Mar 2000

Nexus, Spring 2000, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

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Biographers, Greg Ames Jan 2000

Biographers, Greg Ames

Bryant Literary Review

She was born in Pittsburgh in 1971.

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A Bird's Death, Dana Lauren Jan 2000

A Bird's Death, Dana Lauren

Bryant Literary Review

Her arms were full of overstuffed grocery bags, so Carolina did not see the tiny thing and nearly crushed it underfoot while trying to unlock the back door.

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The Hillside Slasher, Rob Davidson Jan 2000

The Hillside Slasher, Rob Davidson

Bryant Literary Review

Dear Mr. Davies,
I trust you remember who I am.

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Librarian, Tim Myers Jan 2000

Librarian, Tim Myers

Bryant Literary Review

They approached the Circulation Desk just before noon.

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After Ellis Island, Albert Sgambati Jan 2000

After Ellis Island, Albert Sgambati

Bryant Literary Review

My daddy was a miner and his light went out. He married a blind woman so it didn't make much difference.

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Contributors Jan 2000

Contributors

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

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Inside Here, Diana Spechler Jan 2000

Inside Here, Diana Spechler

Bryant Literary Review

This is the first summer of my life that I've gotten through without a single mosquito bite.

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Handwriting, Ace Boggess Jan 2000

Handwriting, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

In the Fourth Grade, my teacher--
that aptly named Mrs. Johnson,

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Fair Trade, Cathleen Calbert Jan 2000

Fair Trade, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

Young women turn to older men for power,
acclaim, and money. In exchange, they offer beauty,

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Fate, Albert Sgambati Jan 2000

Fate, Albert Sgambati

Bryant Literary Review

In an isolated incident people were taken from the bus.

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The Flummoxed Flummoxer, Thomas Dorsett Jan 2000

The Flummoxed Flummoxer, Thomas Dorsett

Bryant Literary Review

Speckled guppies, young and old,
almost worthless, 12 cents each,

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Bread, Sean Thomas Dougherty Jan 2000

Bread, Sean Thomas Dougherty

Bryant Literary Review

I transmutate from the dead leaves
of late autumn
into a loaf of bread,

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Daughter, Richard Dry Jan 2000

Daughter, Richard Dry

Bryant Literary Review

I saw a father and daughter
playing catch

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A Bright Summer Day In Boston, Geoffrey Jarok Jan 2000

A Bright Summer Day In Boston, Geoffrey Jarok

Bryant Literary Review

The tubes that lead to nowhere.
The boredom of the sunshine,

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Black Jellies, Eggs, And The Pearling Of Ovaries, Cathleen Calbert Jan 2000

Black Jellies, Eggs, And The Pearling Of Ovaries, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

The fire is stoked, kindling set in triangles.
Black jellies are sealed with wax, and loaves

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Pedagogy, Allison Joseph Jan 2000

Pedagogy, Allison Joseph

Bryant Literary Review

Sometimes I dream about my students--
how they yawn and fidget in indifference

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Forced To Read A Big, Black, Boring Textbook In The Rain, Jeb Santos Jan 2000

Forced To Read A Big, Black, Boring Textbook In The Rain, Jeb Santos

Bryant Literary Review

It's the opposite of inspiring
Dark soggy day

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Documentary, J. R. Solonche Jan 2000

Documentary, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

Rome burns. Then London.

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Snow, Janet Mccann Jan 2000

Snow, Janet Mccann

Bryant Literary Review

Whiteness like the birth of memory.
Now a glitter.

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Upon Awakening, Janet Proulx Jan 2000

Upon Awakening, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

The alarm clock makes me feel so wise
18 when I'm dreaming, 50 when I rise

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Minuet, Gary J. Whitehead Jan 2000

Minuet, Gary J. Whitehead

Bryant Literary Review

Its keys as yellowed as false teeth,
the piano I imagine my father's mother owns

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Doing Seventy On The Highway, J. R. Solonche Jan 2000

Doing Seventy On The Highway, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

Doing seventy on the highway,
I look over at my wife.

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Table Of Contents Jan 2000

Table Of Contents

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

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Dedication, Allan Peterson Jan 2000

Dedication, Allan Peterson

Bryant Literary Review

A cat, the color of my napkin plays
Twitching on a blue boat, a cat itself,

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Hum Of Thoughts, C. J. Morrissey Jan 2000

Hum Of Thoughts, C. J. Morrissey

Bryant Literary Review

I have made a blanket with words
and have placed it on the mantel for safekeeping.

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There Are Gods, Rob Cook Jan 2000

There Are Gods, Rob Cook

Bryant Literary Review

creating a new species of shadow. there are gods smoking cigarettes in
cheap hotels on the rings of saturn. there are gods lurking inside

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The Old American, Ernest Hebert Jan 2000

The Old American, Ernest Hebert

Dartmouth Scholarship

In 1746, Nathan Blake, the first frame house builder in Keene, New Hampshire, was abducted by Algonkians and held in Canada as a slave. Inspired by this dramatic slice of history, novelist Ernest Hebert has written a masterful new novel recreating those years of captivity. Set in New England and Canada during the French and Indian Wars, The Old American is driven by its complex, vividly imagined title character, Caucus-Meteor. By turns shrewd and embittered, ambitious and despairing, inspired and tormented, he is the self-styled "king" of the remnants of the first native tribes that encountered the English. Displaced and …

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Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can A White Woman Be At Home In Black South Africa?, Nancy Topping Bazin Jan 2000

Nadine Gordimer's Fictional Selves: Can A White Woman Be At Home In Black South Africa?, Nancy Topping Bazin

Women's & Gender Studies Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) Growing up in South Africa where only 5.6 million people are white out of a population of 37.9 million, Nadine Gordimer became increasingly conscious of her whiteness1. The colour of her skin instantly signaled 'oppressor' to black South Africans. Her whiteness imposed upon her a social and political identity that she rejected; yet, it was like a face she could not wash off, a mask she could not take off. As she said in a 1978 interview, 'In South Africa one wears one's skin like a uniform. White equals guilt' (Bazin & Seymour 1990:94). She often …

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