River Teeth Print Journal

Issue 11.1

Fall 2009

Editor’s Notes by Daniel W. Lehman

The police scanner sounded hard on the newspaper’s deadline—a Beech Bonanza four-seat aircraft had nosedived in the median strip of busy Interstate 64 right outside the city. My job was to hustle to the crash site, see what I could see, and phone in a story to the rewrite desk while they held the top of the front page open for me. Continue reading . . . 

Contents

“The Cow” Kelly McMasters  ◆  “The River Cave” Jill Christman    “Fiction” Michelle Bliss     “Hell and Back” Chris Rose    “Transformer: How Tragedy Shaped a Journalist’s Mission” Mark Massé    “The Caul of Inshallah” Mohja Kahf     “Beyond Assumption” Heather Killelea McEntarfer     “Cape Town, My Love” Mark Behr    “Mystery Ways” Brent Spencer    “Autumn” Kathy Fagan    “Nine Lessons from an October Day” Michael Bogan  ◆  “The Essay Mouse” Rebecca McClanahan  ◆  “On Voice Prints, Ghost Thoughts, and Plates Set Spinning: An Interview with Rebecca McClanahan” Gretchen Clark
Contributors’ Notes . . .

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