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Cabbage Stew, William Griffith Apr 2015

Cabbage Stew, William Griffith

Manuscripts

I pulled my left arm from beneath the warm pile of blankets and coverlets. With small forefinger I touched the crystalline sheet of ice that covered the small window above my bed. The contact was strange: along my arm the minute, pale hairs rose with the goose pimples; a queer trembling passed through my body; my small bed trembled; and the hairs on my head seemed to want to pull from their roots. I quickly put my arm back under the comforting warmth of the blankets and pressed my nose into the pillow...


Two Poems, Frances King Apr 2015

Two Poems, Frances King

Manuscripts

Poems include: The Conversation and For a Small Child.


No Cause For Alarm, Mrs. Temple, Barbara Sims Apr 2015

No Cause For Alarm, Mrs. Temple, Barbara Sims

Manuscripts

...Some clays later, kind Providence saw fit to afflict me with tonsilitis, and by the time I had recovered, the reverberations of the incident had endled and so had my mother's quest for culture.


The City, Roger Chittick Apr 2015

The City, Roger Chittick

Manuscripts

Slowly, inevitably, as out of a moving mist, he could begin to distinguish form. They blurred and retreated, then advanced again, gradually becoming more distinct. He was experiencing things as a man just reviving from unconsciousness after a hard blow on the head, or as a man who has drunk too much might slowly and with effort attempt to establish once again a mental contact with the world of time and space. The again, perhaps this was not it at all; perhaps this slow revelation was really taking years; perhaps he was passing through the first years of life and …


Introduction To Death, Joan Owen Apr 2015

Introduction To Death, Joan Owen

Manuscripts

Death meets each of us some time. But perhaps, the most vivid memory of death springs from the first introduction. I shall never forget the little duck named Ivory, who acquainted me with death.


Two Poems, William Griffith Apr 2015

Two Poems, William Griffith

Manuscripts

Poems include: Abortive and To a June Bug


Night Guard At A Mausoleum, Stanley Levine Apr 2015

Night Guard At A Mausoleum, Stanley Levine

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


The Linguistic Adventures Of Leo And Neo, Kenneth Hopkins Apr 2015

The Linguistic Adventures Of Leo And Neo, Kenneth Hopkins

Manuscripts

The problems forced upon civilization by the development of languages are numerous, baffling, and elusive of solution. These problems, furthermore, have never been comprehensively catalogued, and thus have escaped detection by the masses who labor on, under the resulting handicaps, oblivious of the fact that their every action is molded, inhibited, guided and otherwise affected by language...


Death, Or Return Me, Jack Harris Monninger Apr 2015

Death, Or Return Me, Jack Harris Monninger

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


The Reparation, Patty Lewis Apr 2015

The Reparation, Patty Lewis

Manuscripts

The principle stopped checking the list and looked at his secretary. "Miss Adams, he asked, "isn't Ann Lupesko the girl with the thick, steel-rimmed glasses?"...


Poems, Frances King Apr 2015

Poems, Frances King

Manuscripts

Poems include: The Designer, That Year, and The Penitent


Blake And The Child, Sally Forsythe Apr 2015

Blake And The Child, Sally Forsythe

Manuscripts

In "The Lamb" from Songs of Innocence, William Blake captured the sensitive imaginativeness, the knowledge and the awareness of childhood in a filigree of delicate language, verse form, and understanding. He lifted the veil of childhood and revealed that period of life in which imagination, not yet restricted, gives the child a pure understanding of God an his relations to Him and the the world about him...


The Peanut Butter Sandwich, Mavis King Apr 2015

The Peanut Butter Sandwich, Mavis King

Manuscripts

Precisely at 7:45 a.m. Miss Benson came through the revolving doors of the Squibb building, her long, flat-heeled oxfords clunking solidly on the tiled corridor...


Front Matter Apr 2015

Front Matter

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


The Jungle Down The Street, The Town Across The Bridge, All Is Very Well, Taylor B. Tyson Apr 2015

The Jungle Down The Street, The Town Across The Bridge, All Is Very Well, Taylor B. Tyson

Honors College Theses

The Jungle Down the Street, the Town Across the Bridge, All is Very Well is a series of short, nonfiction essays attempting to paint several portraits—regional, ecological, familial, and personal. Focused around the town of Apalachicola, Florida, it addresses themes of family, folklore, tragedy, and the “New Sublime,” or the feeling of wonder at the beauty that precedes an inevitable end. The piece attempts to blend multiple narrative and thematic arcs through the use of humor, anecdote, and historical research.


It’S Not Something We Speak Of, Tucker B. Snow Apr 2015

It’S Not Something We Speak Of, Tucker B. Snow

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Playing House, Taylor L. Andrews Apr 2015

Playing House, Taylor L. Andrews

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Dancing With The Dark, Lori A. Atinizian Apr 2015

Dancing With The Dark, Lori A. Atinizian

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Freshwater, Rachel L. Martinelli Apr 2015

Freshwater, Rachel L. Martinelli

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Graham, Haley G. Weaver Apr 2015

Graham, Haley G. Weaver

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Touch, Christiana L. Fattorini Apr 2015

The Touch, Christiana L. Fattorini

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Fall, Valerie C. Nigg Apr 2015

The Fall, Valerie C. Nigg

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Sustained, Drew T. Ciminera Apr 2015

Sustained, Drew T. Ciminera

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Mercury 2015 Apr 2015

The Mercury 2015

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Little Magazine In Contemporary America, Joanne Joanne Diaz, Eds., Ian Morris, Eds. Apr 2015

The Little Magazine In Contemporary America, Joanne Joanne Diaz, Eds., Ian Morris, Eds.

IWU Authors Bookshelf

Little magazines have often showcased the best new writing in America. Historically, these idiosyncratic, small-circulation outlets have served the dual functions of representing the avant-garde of literary expression while also helping many emerging writers become established authors. Although changing technology and the increasingly harsh financial realities of publishing over the past three decades would seem to have pushed little magazines to the brink of extinction, their story is far more complicated. In this collection, Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz gather the reflections of twenty-three prominent editors whose little magazines have flourished over the past thirty-five years. Highlighting the creativity and …


Volume 16, Issue 2: Full Text Apr 2015

Volume 16, Issue 2: Full Text

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


On Movie Cliches, Joe Dutton Apr 2015

On Movie Cliches, Joe Dutton

Manuscripts

Cecil C. de Cliche takes the stand...


The Judgement, Basil J. Raymond Apr 2015

The Judgement, Basil J. Raymond

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Canadian Jargon, Mary Bertrand Apr 2015

Canadian Jargon, Mary Bertrand

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


The Last Ice Cube, Robert Courtney Apr 2015

The Last Ice Cube, Robert Courtney

Manuscripts

In the very darkest corner, behind the davenport, there sat a little ice cube. Tears were dripping slowly, monotonously, hopelessly from its block-shaped face. The eerie moonlight peeped around the deserted room and revealed the most pitiful expression one could ever witness en the face of an ice cube. And the reason? The little ice cube was dying. Some careless reveler had flipped it out of a glass in one horrifying fling, and there it lay, in a state of inertia, awaiting the hideous death of an ice cube. Slowly, atom by atom, it was disappearing.