"This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Dorothy Parker

 

Verdad, Volume Two launch and reading will take place on February 27, noon until 1 p.m. in the English lounge.  Due to time constraints, a cross section of contributors will read but everyone is welcome!


Editor's Choice Award

The Cage
Peter Basson

 

 

Poetry


His Words Burned Tiny Holes into the Sky
The Mind Will Play Games, Making Gods of Men

Emily Belzer


The Ultimate Alert
Audrey Burge


A Birthday
Stewart Caesar


Pins and Needles
Douglas Evered

Confessional 2
Kevin Franklin


Just Married
Nora Simões



The Little Can
Anne Roberts

The Witches of Edinburgh
Don't Pity, Don't Call, Don't Cry
John R. Guthrie


My Great, Great Grandfather With Napoleon
Sid Hoskins

Blood Line
Oh Captain
Blake Love


The Bumble Bees
Brie Huling

The Moon and the Kitchen Writer's Muse
On Island Grissom in San Pedro Bay
Bonnie Bolling


A Foggy Morning in Cerritos
A Way of Look
Phuong Thao Le


A Coffee Shop on a Friday Night
They Are, They Become
Eric Loya

Katrina
Tanya Olson


Cotton in the Springtime
Juanita Rivers




The Garden, Take Two
Jerry Shaefer


Preacher in the Park
Jean Selvester


High Cost of Prosperity
Conlye O Waggoner

Screenplays


Bane of Man
Scenes 6-10

Chad Bolling

One Acts

The Waiting Room
Eric Loya

 

Fiction

Short Stories

The Spur
Jason Casem


The Varieties of Pain
Rochelle Cocco

Uncle Bill at Sea
Uncle Bill - World Traveler

Douglas Evered

Haircut
Mona Panitz

Pierre
Daal Praderas

Interview with a Vineswinger
Richard Short


Faculty Contributions

Novel Excerpts


In Loco Parentis, Chapter 3
Christina Guillen

Transformation
Velvet Pearson

Finding Middle C
Prologue and First Chapter

Natalie Shiavone

Unwired Girl, Part 3
John Stacy

Short Stories

A Golden Opportunity
Rhoda Greenstone

A Good Man
David Lipton

Snapshot
Anthony Starros

Poetry

The Lemons
Just Now We Are Sitting in Sunlight

Frank X. Gaspar

It
Santa in a White Subaru
Rhoda Greenstone

Our Garden Dream
Kenneth Speirs

Photography

Gorilla
David Lipton

Art Gallery

Paintings

Consternation
Gusty Broad
Mark My Body
Old Man with a Beard

Sid Hoskins

Photography

Overflight
Kelp Textures

School in the Arch
Sea Jelly Stars

Rob Anslow

Red Line
Waiting to Board

Melissa Kraft