Cutting Scenes - The Fine Line

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"Here." $217,328.35. "Dad!" she did cry now, his baby, his little girl, as fragile and thin of artery, if not more so, than his wife. "What are you doing?" "Send your kids to that academy. Give them a chance." He went to the truck. "Where are you going, Dad?" she managed, through the tears, to call after him. He paused. "I don't know exactly." She was framed at the top of the landing and from her, and from her brother, he felt cessation. Their thinning was over. If it started again, it was on them. He groped, testing, but still encountered layers of mud. "I'll call you," and he drove away. He didn't go that far, only four hundred or so miles. He looked over as he crossed the Ohio River from Williamstown, changed his mind about continuing up 77, and turned off into Marietta. He got some directions and settled the Airstream in the dark next to the Muskingum River, about 15 miles north on 60. He slept well. The next morning he drove back to Marietta and walked around. Nice, a row of Victorian mansions on the street overlooking the Ohio, an Indian mound at the top of the hill with a Revolutionary War cemetery around it. The headstones named soldiers who had come here for land and homes. Their wives' stones often showed a death a few years after the husbands'. That was unusual for the time. It spoke of good men, who did not thin arteries. The Ohio decided it. He walked to the banks, the bluffs of West Virginia towering on the opposite side. The water was brown and a Coast Guard tug floated slowly by, a thin sheen of oil trailing behind. But the water was fast and carried all of its - 18 -
impurities away. Carl put both hands in it and let the water carry his impurities away. He worked out $300 a month with the camp site, even though the owner thought him crazy for wanting to spend an Ohio winter in an aluminum tin can. He took a job as an assistant setter, even though the owner thought he was crazy for not subcontracting. It was all he needed and he remained silent during the jobs, remained steady. The jokes and insults finally stopped. He called his daughter and his son. And every day, after work, even in the winter, he went to the Ohio and washed his hands. - 19 -
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Page 8 and 9: Table of Contents Art Fixed by Fran
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Page 12 and 13: Treebone Raj Sharma The frail leaf
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Page 20 and 21: William Hicks Sunny Snow - 20 -
Page 22 and 23: Segue from Age to Age Barbara Westw
Page 24 and 25: Casualty of a Parking Lot Injustice
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Page 30 and 31: Even Now Susan V. Meyers more than
Page 32 and 33: How Womanhood Begins Annemarie Ni C
Page 34 and 35: Parental Discretion Advised Karen B
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Page 38 and 39: weekly to employ as a prop. I no lo
Page 40 and 41: I could tell from the way my friend
Page 42 and 43: much like paper does when it’s he
Page 44 and 45: “I beg your pardon!” “Oh, don
Page 46 and 47: Nurse Diestrum smiled and said, “
Page 48 and 49: Innovative Love Gary Beck The etern
Page 50 and 51: William Watkins Filigree gold 3 - 5
Page 52 and 53: the Wolf saw the sheep returning to
Page 54 and 55: The Ants Keith G. Laufenberg -1- TH
Page 56 and 57: dining room, where his wide smile s
Page 58 and 59: Emily O’Brien smiled languidly at
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Page 62 and 63: “Ah—workers—I know you have b
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Page 66 and 67: “From that very moment, I needed
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“Eventually, he couldn’t handle
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demented eyes, and the ears pointed
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Lunatic Speaks Caroline Hagood In t
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The Rite Steps to Manhood Ciara Har
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hair, and a body that could turn a
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stand, canvases and painting suppli
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Steffy was still crying in the morn
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She opened the second bag and held
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_______ It went downhill from there
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elax. Her hands made their way to m
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The English Teacher Retires after l
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On the last train Gary Glauber Semi
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America is traceable to chemicals i
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“Consciousness limiting is the di
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William Hicks Landscape 12-22-10 -
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Conversion to Digital, A Consolatio
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Notes on Contributors Wayne Andrewa
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Duane J Jackson is a 30 year-old po
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