Winter 2014: Prose
Introduction
What drives us to write? What’s at the heart? What’s the guiding question? Why this piece? Why now? These questions help us think about and shape our writing. Writers have something to say and a drive to say it. We want to work it out on the page and share it in a big way, bigger than conversation over coffee.
The five beautiful writers in our winter journal all have something core to speak. Each piece touches on fear and the yummy way we break through fear: love. In “Like Water and Stones” a young girl learns to trust herself, to love herself. “Messages” is all heart, showing us how one family loved their sister/daughter/aunt, how they found comfort and connection in their grief. In “Pie” we see the deep root between a sister and brother, a life long knowing that this family chord doesn’t waver. “Confinement” reflects on what can go so sideways when a family disconnects and how a young woman’s life was moved by what she observed, how she was determined to make her own choices, set her own course. In “Fear Jars” one woman captures her fears, her fear spectrum also revealing her loves.
It’s been an honor to be part of working with our five writers. I bow deeply to each of them for the courage to write their truths, to let us hear their voices.
With gratitude,
Anne Gudger
Guest Prose Co-Editor
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LETTER FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR
POETRY After the Ice Storm by Linda Strever Waiting for a Diagnosis by Linda Strever Anticipation by Penelope Scambly Schott How to Survive the Loss of Your Best Friend by Diane Averill Current Conditions by Carol Ellis For a Hot Shot by Susan DeFreitas Focal Distance by Jenna Thompson Bridge by Jennifer Liberts Weinberg Motherhood by Elizabeth Stoessl Nice Girl Regrets by Pattie Palmer Baker Lost Child Lullabye by Tiah Lindner Rephael To Inhabit the Body by Willa Schneberg Love Letter by Annie Lightheart PROSE Like Water and Stones by B.E. Scully Messages by Mary Mandeville Fear Jars by Jessica Zisa Pie by Susan Lehman Confinement by Valerie Wagner ART Where the Buffalo and Unicorn Once Roamed by Katie Todd Midwestern Dreamin' by Katie Todd Monday's Child by Sarah Fagan Sweet Tea by Sarah Fagan The Daydream by Kendall Madden Beatrice by Kendall Madden YOUNG VOICES Chinese Mangos by Sophia Mautz The Bridge by Kate LeBlanc Ephemeral by Jillian Briglia The River by Sheila Panyam Compost by Sophia Mautz CONTRIBUTORS |