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contents vii Preface xi Introduction fan shen 1 “Long Live the Red Terror!” peggy shumaker 15 Moving Water, Tucson laurie alberts 19 Winter 1997 charles barber 29 The Weight of Spoons john skoyles 45 Hard Luck Suit brenda serotte 63 Fortuna marvin v. arnett 89 The Boys of Summer ted kooser 99 Excerpt from “Winter” dinty w. moore 129 Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers eli hastings 139 Good, Alright, Fine dinah lenney 157 Acting natalia rachel singer 165 And There Fell a Great Star aaron raz link and 183 Not Coming Out hilda raz janet sternburg 191 Excerpt from Phantom Limb mary felstiner 195 Alternatives, 1979 jonathan johnson 205 Excerpt from “The Second Trimester” floyd skloot 229 A Measure of Acceptance mimi schwartz 245 The New Kitchen lee martin 251 One I Love, Two I Love sonya huber 279 Excerpt from “The Promise of Power” 301 Source Acknowledgments 303 List of Contributors ...

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