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"Waiting" by Charles E. Rice

Waiting is no game. It belongs to life as intimately as sleeping. To survive our times of waiting poses one of life's greatest challenges...

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"Ma Brewer's Trial" by Jim Biedenharn

from River City Ebb & Flow In our minds the hotel, the joints, and the clinic served as a funnel to the courthouse. Located on a massive ...

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Phil Rice: The Mets, Maggie, and Me

In early spring 1968, when I was seven, my brother Hal, five years my senior, showed me how to read the statistics on the back of basebal...

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Phil Rice: Ode on a Miracle

Interlude: Ode on a Miracle A cold January morning. I wake, shower, pour a cup of coffee into a go-cup, and get in the car. The morning r...

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Carolyn Haynes: excerpt from "The Lloyd Haynes Story"

On one of my many phone conversations with Lloyd’s mother, I thanked her profusely for all the time she spent teaching Lloyd as a boy. Sh...

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"Sunbelt," flash fiction by Jim Biedenharn

I don’t have any idea how long we had been following the truck, but if you squinted into the noon glare the familiar pig’s head logo coul...

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Phil Rice: Words for Charles, My Son

Charles Leslie died on Dec. 23, 1992, not quite five months past his birth. According to the paperwork, he died of SIDS, an acronym for “...

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Mick Lee: Undiscovered Dinosaur

Phil Rice's Foreword for Undiscovered Dinosaur: Adventures with Rock Legends of the 60s, 70s, and 80s by Mick Lee. If I were to reconstru...

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"Hoodlums on the Lawn" by Carver Adams

In a hulking, black-clad mass, nearly twenty turkey vultures congregated in Maude’s yard. The 12-gauge shotgun blasts she fired over thei...

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"Cover the Ground" by Charles E. Rice

A selection from The View from My Ridge by Charles E. Rice Growing up in a mill town teaches one violence—and survival tactics. Pietistic...

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