Page 80 from Issue 48 The price of gold William Bevis Shorty Harris was a gold prospec­ tor around ... the turn of the century. His tombstone in Death Valley reads: Bury me beside Jim Dayton in the valley ... dead, the young Shorty leaves his wife and child and his assaying job in a desert mining camp to look ...

Page 266 from Issue 80 lished by the University of California Press in fall 1991. * * * Joanna ... Anos teaches in the creative-writing program at Northwestern Univer­ sity. Her poems have appeared in ... the American Scholar and the Greensboro Ret'iew. * * * Brooks Haxton is the author of four ...

Page 80 from Issue 128 about a mother and daughter who are accepted to college the same year and ... Lower East Side near me. She was really into ecology. You couldn't flush paper down her toilet­ ... you put it in a covered bucket next to her trashcan. This totally embarrassed me. I never quite ...

never say). Her voice was matter of fact, or else it was the way English goes flat in a mouth made for ... death. And saw, with them, our own young men, the same, filing into the black belly of a huge cargo ... Page 17 from Issue 80 and when he laughs, it shakes, until the air is filled with silken snow, the ...

185: We heard what you got to say, Kid. We cain't wait no longer. COWPOKE 186: Some of us is dead, ... Page 80 from Issue 18 The SHERIFF draws the pistols to fling them away, but as soon as ... Sheriff. Because you're dumb. SHERIFF: But I don't wanna die! I been a good man, boys! I loved ...