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Spring 2009 [Issue No. 16]

Table of Contents - final issue

2009 BLODGETT WAXWING LITERARY PRIZE IN FICTION

FIRST PRIZE - $500

What would you do to get that call you've been waiting for all your life? Call tech support, that's what. But look out ... you might get a dominatrix. Or a 12-year-old genius named Crazy Bob. Rushin delivers a linguistically playful, over-the-top romp concerned with the existential. What else? You were expecting --?

SECOND PRIZE - $100

The Fact of Suffering ▪► Andrew Rooney

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Cheerful, cynical Sellig packs the girl students at his academy in Nigeria into buses with their teachers and takes them into town, despite government warnings not to travel because of possible election riots. Prominent businessmen dine with the group of girls in exchange for donations to the academy, a sudden storm causes a sudden tragedy, and a hawk cheats death - but at a cost. Don't miss this deft excerpt from Rooney's novel.

FICTION

The Abyss Looks Back ▪► Henry Marchand

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One day, City Hall vanishes in a small town, leaving nothingness, a horribly empty pit. A well-respected doctor recounts the town's terrifying slide into political terror, occasioned by the citizens' fear of the unknown.

ESSAYS

Ricinus Communis ▪► Jen Hirt

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Hirt considers the unlikely juxtaposition of Ken Olsen, the third man ever to be tried for possession of the biological weapon, ricin, and her father, who sold him the deadly ingredient: "Two men trying to get out of marriages, two drastically different approaches."

Roll Tide ▪► Mike Freeman

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"For all my beliefs that humans will be both happier and healthier by living more lightly on the planet, and for all my strivings to do so, the fact remains that I'm a man. There's a destructive tendency to this state that's not so simple as it seems, and for far too long it's been at best a peripheral topic in the recent decades of environmental wrangling."

Poetry

Scent of Juniper ▪► Carol Frith

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The Deli on Granville ▪► Donal Mahoney

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About our epigraph, "time, Strength, Cash & Patience."

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		Home \| Final Issue \| King's Council \| Books We Love \| Books You Love \| Archives \| Blog Who We Were ▪► Submit ▪► Links ▪► E-Mail Spring 2009 [Issue No. 16] Table of Contents - final issue 2009 BLODGETT WAXWING LITERARY PRIZE IN FICTION FIRST PRIZE - $500 The Call ▪► Pat Rushin HTML \| Download PDF* What would you do to get that call you've been waiting for all your life? Call tech support, that's what. But look out ... you might get a dominatrix. Or a 12-year-old genius named Crazy Bob. Rushin delivers a linguistically playful, over-the-top romp concerned with the existential. What else? You were expecting --? SECOND PRIZE - $100 The Fact of Suffering ▪► Andrew Rooney HTML \| Download PDF* Cheerful, cynical Sellig packs the girl students at his academy in Nigeria into buses with their teachers and takes them into town, despite government warnings not to travel because of possible election riots. Prominent businessmen dine with the group of girls in exchange for donations to the academy, a sudden storm causes a sudden tragedy, and a hawk cheats death - but at a cost. Don't miss this deft excerpt from Rooney's novel. FICTION The Abyss Looks Back ▪► Henry Marchand HTML \| Download PDF* One day, City Hall vanishes in a small town, leaving nothingness, a horribly empty pit. A well-respected doctor recounts the town's terrifying slide into political terror, occasioned by the citizens' fear of the unknown. ESSAYS Ricinus Communis ▪► Jen Hirt HTML \| Download PDF* Hirt considers the unlikely juxtaposition of Ken Olsen, the third man ever to be tried for possession of the biological weapon, ricin, and her father, who sold him the deadly ingredient: "Two men trying to get out of marriages, two drastically different approaches." Roll Tide ▪► Mike Freeman HTML \| Download PDF* "For all my beliefs that humans will be both happier and healthier by living more lightly on the planet, and for all my strivings to do so, the fact remains that I'm a man. There's a destructive tendency to this state that's not so simple as it seems, and for far too long it's been at best a peripheral topic in the recent decades of environmental wrangling." Poetry Scent of Juniper ▪► Carol Frith HTML The Deli on Granville ▪► Donal Mahoney HTML Contributors Archives About our epigraph, "time, Strength, Cash & Patience." How To Download PDF Files Files marked with an asterisk can be downloaded in an Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF file. To download it, right-click the "Download PDF" link. In the pop-up menu that appears, select Save Target As,* (or Save File As) and then save the document to a folder on your own computer, where you can open it and read it or print it at your leisure. Adobe Acrobat Reader software is free and can be obtained here: