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Reginald Blisterkunst, Ph.D.
Among the Remembered Saints: My Life and Subsequent Death
Pluto Wars

Greg Chandler
"Bee's Tree"
"Local Folk"
"Roland's Feast"
"Pond Story "

Doug Childers
"The Baptism"

Gene Cox
The Sunset Lounge

Clarke Crutchfield
"The Break-In"
"The Canceled Party"
"The Imaginary Bullet"

Jason DeBoer
"The Execution of the Sun"

Deanna Francis Mason
"The Daguerreian Marvel"

Dennis Must
"Boys"
"Star-Crossed"

Charlie Onion
"Halloween"
"Love Among the Jellyfish"
Pluto Wars
"Feast of the Manfestation"

Chris Orlet
"Romantic Comedy"

Daniel Rosenblum
"A Full Donkey"

Deanna Frances Mason
"The Daguerreian Marvel"

Andrew L. Wilson
"Fat Cake and Double Talk"

 

The Shovel
Jackson Davis

After the sudden fire in the brush,

the alder trunks had burned down to where

their sap steamed up like breath, small trees

giving up, and I sat in the ash,

and laid my shovel behind me, and watched

the low sun falling through the smoke.

 

I was tired from saving, what?

A shoulder of a logged-out hill,

a gray house others had abandoned.

All afternoon, nearly alone, with all

my language in my palms, smacking

the shovel against burning wood.

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About the Author

Born then, not dead yet.
 
Fairly well-read; on occasion somewhat agreeable to talk with.
 
Thinks good country folk are, in fact, God's Chosen People, and thanks his God for Jane.
 
"No other marks or brands recollected," as Lincoln repeated.

 

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