"Life shrinks or expands
in proportion
to one's courage."

(Anais Nin)









Summer 2008

Fiction

Brenda Webster
Blind Spots

Nonfiction

Joan Shaddox Isom
Four Laps in August

Theatre

Naomi Newman
Five Scenes

Poetry

Tess Gallagher
Eleven Poems

Art

Joan Snyder
Paintings



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