Amarillo Bay Contents
Volume 12 Number 2
We are pleased to present the second issue of our twelfth year, published on Monday, 17 May 2010. We hope you enjoy browsing through our extensive collection of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry! (See the Works List to discover the over 450 works in our collection, including the ability to search through the issues.)
Fiction
All the Naked Women
by Gary V. Powell
Gary V. Powell
Gary V. Powell's stories have appeared in several literary journals. His story, "Miller's Deer," was selected as runner-up for the 2008 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. A former attorney, he lives and in North Carolina with his wife and son. He's nearing completion of his first novel, Lucky Bastard, which involves the characters Harley and Jim from "Delivering the Goods," a story that originally appeared in the 8 May 2006 issue of Amarillo Bay.
Visit him at www.authorgaryvpowell.com.
"It's a human interest story," the reporter explained. He was respectful enough and too homely to take seriously. He reminded Wes of the kid on the front of Mad Magazine.
"And I'm saying it's none of your damn business," Chopper told him. "This is our tavern. What happens here, stays here."
"That why you call this place Vegas?" Chopper wore his blonde hair pulled into a pony tail. A thick hoop earring dangled from each ear. He frowned through his handlebar mustache. "That's none of your damn business, either."
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Joseph's Car
by Jennifer Ruden
Jennifer Ruden
Jennifer Ruden graduated ten years ago from University of Oregon's creative writing program. Since then she has taught literacy skills to disadvantaged youth. She lives with her husband and their two children in Albuquerque. Some of her work appears in Word Riot, Puerto del Sol, Literary Mama, The Motherhood Muse, and Eclectica. She won first place in A Room of Her Own Foundation's creative nonfiction contest. Her first novel is aimed at the Young Adult crowd. She can be reached at jenruden@gmail.com.
Afterwards, Joseph cracks his knuckles before his keyboard and begins working on his screenplay. And even though she left him, took the coffee filters, the mouse pad, the Internet cables, the protein shake mix, that very plastic coffee mug, he writes each morning. This is a promise to himself he intends to keep. Before a bike ride, before a shower, he will write.
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Put It Together
by Alex Myers
Alex Myers
Alex Myers lives and teaches in Rhode Island. His writing has appeared in a variety of journals, including Apple Valley Review, Drunken Boat, and flashquake. Full details are available at alexmyerswriting.blogspot.com. He is currently a student in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Wheels
by Mike Tebo
Mike Tebo
Mike Tebo endures the heat and humidity of the Deep South in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In September 2008, he was selected as a resident writer at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow (Eureka Springs, Arkansas). Peeks and Valleys: A Southern Journal published two of his short stories in 2009, and in 2010, he co-founded The Cat Head Biscuit Review: A Literary Journal from the South, which he now helps edit.
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Creative Nonfiction
Deep Sea Fishing
by Marjie Rynearson
Marjie Rynearson
Marjie Rynearson currently teaches story structure at the Temple Civic Theatre and the Cultural Activities Center in Temple, Texas. She was the winner of the Norfolk Southern New Plays Competition for her play, JENNY, and was awarded the Golden Cine and the Silver Medal (American Medical Film Festival) for a documentary about Hypochondriasis. She was the founder of the Temple Civic Theatre and was president of the board of Chicago Dramatists.
His eyes opened into a vast experience, a mystery I longed to solve. The secrets of the universe were hiding there, I knew. This frightened me, and at the same time compelled me to follow. I wanted to feel like he looked -- strong, self-confident, full of knowledge and compassion.
He was a famous writer who had come to the Mayo Clinic for psychiatric help. His doctor thought it would be a good idea for him to get out of the hospital. Maybe spend time with a family for Sunday brunch, with someone who had a pool where he could relax, where everyone was sensitive enough to treat him like any other human being.
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Götterdämmerung
"This article is a stub. You can help (pronoun) by adding to it."
by Jesse Waters
Jesse Waters
Jesse Waters was Runner-up for the Iowa Review Prize, finalist in the Glimmer Train 2003 Poetry Open and The Davoren Hanna International Poetry Contest, recipient of a NC Artists' Grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center and a winner of the 2001 River Styx International Poetry Contest. Jesse Waters' fiction, poetry and non-fiction work has appeared in such journals as 88: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, The Adirondack Review, Coal Hill Review, The Cortland Review, Cimarron Review, Concrete Wolf, Iowa Review, Plainsongs, Magma, River Styx, Slide, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review and others. "Götterdämmerung" is part of Jesse's book Jewboy, to be released by Bedouin Books in 2011.
1. Birth is the process in
1.animals by which an offspring is expelled from the body of its mother. Different forms of birth are ovipary, vivipary or ovovivipary. In some ancient cultures, birth is referred to as primoris rutilis mico, πρώτη κόκκινη λάμψη, or ןצחל םודא קזבה: First red flash.
– Jesse Waters was born on November 17, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA to Laura J.(Powell) Waters (b. 10/20/47, New York, NY). A few months later he ate his mother’s Big Apple© lipstick. That is his first memory. Big Apple© must have looked like what his brain had learned, in the womb, what sweet was. It was wrong.
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Poetry
Catherine's Wake
by John Grey
John Grey
John Grey has been published recently in the Georgetown Review, The Pinch, South Carolina Review, and The Pedestal, with work upcoming in Alimentum and Big Muddy.
but look how well they've done her face,
taken ten years off her life.
And she, so still, like she appreciates that.
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Where Sam's Daughter Wades Tonight
by John Grey
John Grey
John Grey has been published recently in the Georgetown Review, The Pinch, South Carolina Review, and The Pedestal, with work upcoming in Alimentum and Big Muddy.
the eyes of the reptiles are not like those of men
but she's already bouncing off the sofa,
across the floorboards, and out the door.
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Down Holmes Bend
by John Swain
John Swain
John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. His chapbook, Prominences, appeared from Flutter Press and his ebook, The Feathered Masks, appeared from Full of Crow.
Fragments of Calendars
by John Swain
John Swain
John Swain lives in Louisville, Kentucky. His chapbook, Prominences, appeared from Flutter Press and his ebook, The Feathered Masks, appeared from Full of Crow.
in a puddle of stained glass windows,
the black spiral stairs lead
upward to sky like a bell jar.
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Encore
by Stacy Campbell
Stacy Campbell
Stacy Campbell lives in Hurst, Texas. She teaches English to special education students in Arlington, Texas. In her free time she plays the guitar, writes poetry and short stories, and drinks very cold beer. She is previously published in Writer's Digest, North Texas Professional Writer's Anthology, The Story Teller, Orange Room Review, Autumn Leaves, The Smoking Poet, Splash of Red Literary Journal, Westward Quarterly, The Teachers Voice, A Little Poetry, and other on-line publications. She was a 2008 Commendation Award Winner from The Society of Southwestern Authors.
not the latch on the door
not the dormant alarm inside
not the tickle of bones
can prepare you for this assembly
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Let Monday Speak
by Stacy Campbell
Stacy Campbell
Stacy Campbell lives in Hurst, Texas. She teaches English to special education students in Arlington, Texas. In her free time she plays the guitar, writes poetry and short stories, and drinks very cold beer. She is previously published in Writer's Digest, North Texas Professional Writer's Anthology, The Story Teller, Orange Room Review, Autumn Leaves, The Smoking Poet, Splash of Red Literary Journal, Westward Quarterly, The Teachers Voice, A Little Poetry, and other on-line publications. She was a 2008 Commendation Award Winner from The Society of Southwestern Authors.
a constant reminder
of your deeds hardly dead to me
the television set
of my real life rests upon your shoulders
there is no volume control
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How Many Raggedy Humid Dawns
by Dan Mendoza
Dan Mendoza
Dan Mendoza is a graduate student at the University of Texas - Pan American. He lives in Edinburg, TX.
Have you woken
Spit hardened and hands
Calloused against the knees
Of day?
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| 2010, Volume 12 |
Number 4, 2 November 2009 — Future Issue Number 3, 2 August 2009 —Next Issue Number 2, 17 May 2010 —Current Issue Number 1, 1 February 2010 |
| 2009, Volume 11 |
Number 4, 2 November 2009 Number 3, 3 August 2009 Number 2, 18 May 2009 Number 1, 2 February 2009 |
| 2008, Volume 10 |
Number 4, 3 November 2008 Number 4, 18 August 2008 Number 2, 19 May 2008 Number 1, 11 February 2008 |
| 2007, Volume 9 |
Number 4, 12 November 2007 Number 3, 6 August 2007 Number 2, 7 May 2007 Number 1, 5 February 2007 |
| 2006, Volume 8 |
Number 4, 6 November 2006 Number 3, 7 August 2006 Number 2, 8 May 2006 Number 1, 6 February 2006 |
| 2005, Volume 7 |
Number 4, 7 November 2005 Number 3, 8 August 2005 Number 2, 2 May 2005 Number 1, 7 February 2005 |
| 2004, Volume 6 |
Number 4, 1 October 2004 Number 3, 2 August 2004 Number 2, 3 May 2004 Number 1, 2 February 2004 |
| 2003, Volume 5 |
Number 4, 3 November 2003 Number 3, 4 August 2003 Number 2, 5 April 2003 Number 1, 3 February 2003 |
| 2002, Volume 4 |
Number 4, 4 November 2002 Number 3, 5 August, 2002 Number 2, 6 May 2002 Number 1, 4 February 2002 |
| 2001, Volume 3 |
Number 4, 5 November 2001 Number 3, 6 August 2001 Number 2, 7 May 2001 Number 1, 5 February 2001 |
| 2000, Volume 2 |
Number 4, 6 November 2000 Number 3, 7 August 2000 Number 2, 1 May 2000 Number 1, 7 February 2000 |
| 1999, Volume 1 |
Number 3, 1 November 1999 Number 2, 2 August 1999 Number 1, 3 May 1999 |