Table of Contents | Headwaters |
| Editor’s Notes | |
| “River Teeth: An Introduction” David James Duncan | When an ancient streamside tree finally falls into its bordering river, it drowns as would a human, and begins to disintegrate with surprising speed.
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| “The Clearwater” by Kim Barnes– | I take the river a step at a time. |
| “Small Change” by Leon Dash and Susan Sheehan– | It was still 85 degrees at 8 p.m. that Sunday night in July, but it felt even hotter inside Lester Hicks’s apartment. |
| “Sex and the Gimpy Girl” by Nancy Mairs– | The other day, I went into a tizzy. |
| “A Death in the Family” by Jon Franklin– | It was dawn when David Brewer arrived at the Duke Primate Center to find two cars parked outside the loading doors. |
| “By Force, Threat, or Deception” by Joe Mackall– | On Friday the 13, just 12 days before his 42nd birthday, a birthday he swore he’d never see, Don pulled out of his parking space at a job he hated and turned into eastbound traffic. |
| “The Language of Love in Richard Selzer’s ‘The Consultation'” by Ronald J. Nelson– | Fiction and nonfiction conventionally are described as opposing concepts–the former taking the reader on an imaginative journey through a made-up reality, the latter on a factual journey through reality. |
| “Altogether the Wrong Color” by Brian Mooney– | Outside the family room of the ICU at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, my father holds forth about the general weakening of the human species and how we should all suck in our guts and stop complaining about every little thing. |
| “Serbia: The Country of Death” by John Reed– | “Too bad,” said Wiley. “So young, too. Do you want the remains shipped home, or shall we have you buried up there?” |
| “Kosovo Under Fire” by Philip Smucker– | PRISTINA, Kosovo (27 March 1999) — For the past two years I have made Yugoslavia my home. |
