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Readers Write

Sickness

A pituitary tumor, a shot of thorazine, the flu

By Our Readers February 1980
Fiction

True Stories

As soon as we were seated at the Su-En, the couple left for the restroom. While they were away, an Oriental woman walked in, sitting next to me. Yoko Ono! Seconds later, in came John Lennon!

By Nyle Frank February 1980
Photography

Photographs By Barbara Docktor

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By Barbara Docktor January 1980
Fiction

There But For The God Of Grace Go I

He decided that if looking into the darkness could evoke both bears with frying pans and wonderful fantasy worlds, then it was all a matter of the manner in which he went about looking that determined what would confront him. He was still scared of the dark so he limited his looking to moments of strong neurotic necessity, but the vision had been so powerful he never again seriously considered brick and mortar as being in any way, shape or form representational of reality.

By David Manning January 1980
Readers Write

Simple Pleasures

Kite-flying, spaghetti, the sound of moving water

By Our Readers December 1979
The Sun Interview

An Interview With Patricia Sun

I don’t think when people get divorced it is necessarily a failure of the marriage, I think sometimes it is a finishing, a completing of the marriage. That you sometimes have worked out all the things that you can work out together.

By Sy Safransky & Betsy Campbell December 1979
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

A Lady’s Journal: Reclining Morals

Our minds are made up of sentences to be liked by everybody: by the time we grow up we have to take them apart, by paragraph, chapter, and story, to find our own style, ’til finally the mind is random as alphabet soup, ready to make new combinations of feeling and thought.

By Cheryl Schilling November 1979
Readers Write

First Sexual Experience

In the tall broomsedge, in a nearly finished new house, in a tent

By Our Readers November 1979