 
| Table of Contents Fiction: Stuart Dybek, "Blowing Shades" Robert Clark, "Hospital Game" Janice Daugharty, "In a Car Going Nowhere" Dasa Sali, "The Search" Vinayak Vatsal, "Star Romance" Poetry: Chase Twichell, "Locust", "Lilacs Again", "The Lost Birds", "Anger", "Silver and White Elegy" Donald Hall, "Letter After a Year" Nicholas Christopher, "Uncle Phillip's Funeral in Las Vegas" Robert Phillips, "Gingerbread House" "Renee and Theordore Weiss", "Perhaps", "Real Estate", "Because" Joan Murray, "Mourning Coat", "Infidels", "Autumn Tourists" Wendy Barker, from The Berkeley Years Aphorisms: James Richardson, "Vectors: 50 More Aphorisms" Photographs: Mary Cross, Portfolio: Vietnam, 1996-97 Cover: Buddhist nun, Vietnam, 1997, photo by Mary Cross |