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Childhood

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Angel At The Gate

In the year I was sixteen, on the first day of that new year, my father died, and since that time I have longed hopelessly for a paradise that will never return.

By David M. Guy December 1978
Readers Write

Sports

(Part One)

Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente, Bert Jones

By Our Readers December 1978
Readers Write

Grandparents

A print that someone had jabbed holes where the eyes had been, The Secret Garden where the snow-drops bloomed, a pair of tweezers thrust into a hand

By Our Readers October 1978
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

That Little Guy In The Corner Needs A Drink

Book Review

His novels are often wildly funny, with a kind of humor that is even more striking on a second reading, once it has had time to sink in. He is not the life of the party, but the enormously funny little man off in the corner whom only a few people know about.

By David M. Guy July 1978
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Unspeakable

Pain is the voice of the inner pearl of being, crying out to be extricated from the blankets of belief that keep us from accepting ourselves, from understanding that aloneness is not loneliness.

By Betsy Campbell Blackwell January 1978