May 2012 Issue
Violet
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Her mother's pending death brings Violet back to her family home, where hints about her past have the power to free her, in this short story by Patricia Crisafulli.
Just Lunch
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Ever so reluctantly, Maureen has entered the Facebook world, where "friend" is a verb as well as a noun, and a chance meeting leads to "just lunch."
Johnny Igoe, Spellbinder Remembered
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Johnny Igoe, reader of Yeats, caretaker of the downtrodden, and spellbinder with story and verse, is well remembered as a little man whose poetic voice made him a giant, in this essay by Tom Sheehan.
SIgns and Symbols
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When a great grey heron lands on the garage roof, it becomes a fortuitous sign in this essay by Patricia Crisafulli.
Old Man's Right and Variety - Two Poems
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"When I was a lad / My father's cheeks rasped mine..." begins the poem, "An Old Man's Right" -- the first of two by Murray Alfredson.