don't you call one another anything?" "Her name's Betsy ... only that, he was giving all the money he should have been sharing with me to her. I guess I thought ... his wife didn't feel it was important to be faithful to one another, whether they ...

"critic"; no matter what one says, the very word carries pejorative connotations, with Dryden's ... brought down from Mount Criticism. But, something else. We hear much, no doubt rightly, ofthe travails, ... Page 99 from Issue 30 novels, not by assessing what they seem to describe, but by trying to ...

Page 46 from Issue 80 Four Poems w. s. Di Piero The Next Room Like leaves and coils of leaf dust ... It's all and nothing like. Something else: a cool sweep of air I felt the moment you walked in and ... unseen, one room away, but for the brazen sun-sleeve cast across my rug from the door you meant to close. ...

"It is." "You look so normal," she said. "Dumpy, really. No one ... Page 58 from Issue 99 TRIQUARTERLY of bite marks on her shoulder, darkening into bruises. ... moldering uniforms, gold braid gone brittle with age. One night after the cinema we made love, very quietly ...