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… sage were flora of little rain. Day after day the heat had come out of Utah, moving against nothing until it reached … route, roping off in the pinons and rappelling, their bodies canted out into space. Discipline: that’s what Ramos … himself, shielding his head with his arms and his body. 426-437 By Kent Nelson …

… years—and sometimes he thinks she’s some pleasant stranger come to spend time with him. That smile touches her though, … is off playing basketball with Tom.” Her father makes no comment—he never does—to such remarks, but she feels she … most often—that summer ten years before when Naomi’s mother died. Late in the afternoon her father would drive over …

… from Dick Turpin to Tom Sawyer. A literary case in point comes from the beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary, who died this spring at the estimable age of 104. A children’s …

… all the pseudo-literary embellishments—just seemed toy-like compared to his work. Maybe I was expecting from Jones some … workshop and watching him walk down the side of the road in complete anonymity. The people who passed him had no idea … Jones the man as well as the people in his fiction. There’s also something calm, true, and unforced. Of course, it’s …

Little God Take a look, little god, at the pecked and smattered sill above the street where thin drunkards wrap their chests in a vest of old headlines. The slate ledge tilts toward the fire escape’s homemade cross marking the death of our super who …