August 1993 Issue 212

Departments

Contributors

Correspondence

Sunbeams

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Natalie
Ann Nietzke

A Brutal Sadness
Capital Punishment And The Politics Of Vengeance

D. Patrick Miller

The Only Child
Carrie Knowles

At Seven
Cait Stanley

Letter To Maxim
Alison Luterman

Fiction

Uncle Ruff
John Baird

Poetry

The Mad Girl Is Flip, Uses Words
Lyn Lifshin

The Truth
Terry Ehret

The Reason We Work So Hard
Antler

Sewing Batman's Cape After The Funeral Of A Friend's Son
Lisa Zimmerman

A Testimonial
Sparrow

Poetry By Rumi
Translated by Kabir Edmund Helminski

Readers Write

Ten Years Later