Issue 071

Nonfiction

• New Chapters in an Old Story
• Beautiful Losers

Fiction

• Shell Game
• Raccoon
• Something Practical
• Toast
• Petites Filles

Postscript

• Grade Four
• The Banker’s Execution
• A Cure for Low Blood
• The Cowboy
• Varanasi, India
• Jari, India

Poetry

• No Moonlight Will Ever Explain
• Where the Story Begins
• Living Death
• Etymology of a Domestic Squabble or Why That os
• Winter Forecast
• March Equinox
• A la Belle Soeur
• For Gabriel at 6 years, 6 months exactly
• The sea or salvation
• Fuchsias long distance
• Ocean Home
• The Braid
• Dead weight
• Among Shoes
• To My Mother On Boxing Day Evening, 1997
• This Spring
• dancing with bruce (corrected version)

• Curtain Call