Preface
Introduction
"Long Live the Red Terror!"
Fan Shen
Moving Water, Tucson
Peggy Shumaker
Winter 1997
Laurie Alberts
The Weight of Spoons
Charles Barber
Hard Luck Suit
John Skoyles
Fortuna
Brenda Serotte
The Boys of Summer
Marvin V. Arnett
Excerpt from "Winter"
Ted Kooser
Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers
Dinty W. Moore
Good, Alright, Fine
Eli Hastings
Acting
Dinah Lenney
And There Fell a Great Star
Natalia Rachel Singer
Not Coming Out
Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz
Excerpt from Phantom Limb
Janet Sternburg
Alternatives, 1979
Mary Felstiner
Excerpt from "The Second Trimester"
Jonathan Johnson
A Measure of Acceptance
Floyd Skloot
The New Kitchen
Mimi Schwartz
One I Love, Two I Love
Lee Martin
Excerpt from "The Promise of Power"
Sonya Huber
Source Acknowledgments
List of Contributors