Fiction
Summer 1990
Begotten Spirits
Blood is a hot, sweet, temperate, red humour, prepared in the meseraick veins, and made of the most temperate parts of the chylus in the liver, whose office is to […]
Fiction
Winter 1988
Bothering
He had phoned at ten o’clock on Sunday morning, and she said she supposed it would be all right if he stopped by. She said there could be little harm […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1986
Peter Taylor’s Most Recent Fiction
The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor. Garden City. NY: Dial Press, 1985. 358 pages. $16.95. In this latest collection of Peter Taylor’s fiction, he demonstrates how committedly […]
Fiction
Autumn 1985
Critical Decisions of Early Years
My first four fights were as a middleweight: two wins, one loss, one draw. Bertie Gunnerman took me aside after the last one, the draw, and he said, “You’re paying […]
Fiction
Autumn 1984
Isaac Trimble’s Tale
Captain Shackford lived here most 30 years, and nobody knew him better than I did. I saw him come down the Ohio River and land here at Portsmouth two years […]
Poetry
Winter 1968
On a Bridge, Somewhere in February
Before the toll gate, anonymous in the long line of cars, a man rolls down his window and stares out through the gray air at a barge trailing scarves of […]