Poetry
Excerpt: Chapter One - I always thought of him as the man who never smiled. He was grieving, it was said, but I couldn't fathom his grief, couldn't grasp the depth of his sorrow - and yet I found him hauntingly appealing; his sadness touched me. I'm Alison Kent, never married, twenty-three; my position at our family-owned newspaper, The Clarion, afforded me opportunity to lunch in Magnolia Park where I occasionally saw him on those lovely April days of 1988.
Fiction Literature
Excerpt: If you're like me, you probably turned to the Afterword first, before reading the book that it is the Afterword to. If you have done this, . Go back to the beginning, and read the book. It's no fair just skimming the good parts, either, you must read the whole thing or you can't read the Afterword.
Excerpt: Players - the child, the actor, and the gambler. The idea of chance is absent from the world of the child and the primitive. The gambler also feels in service of an alien power. Chance is a survival of religion in the modern city...
Excerpt: Co-re-spon-dence /kor-e-'span-den(t)s/ n 1 a: the agreement of things with one another b: a particular similarity c: association of one or more members of a set with each member of a second set: Function, Mapping 2 a: communication by letters; also, the letters exchanged...
Excerpt: Insert - New York Times Bestseller List; The Number One entry for nonfiction is The Last Dancer, by Richard Stone. The Number One entry for fiction is of course Devlin's Razor, also by Richard Stone.