CONCLAVE: A Journal of Character
ISSUE 1: 2008
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FOREWORD by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
MANAGING EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION by Scott Markwell
FICTION
LISA CARL ~ Sharing the Car
CHRISTINE BETH REISH ~ The German Woman Brings Children Into
the World
RICHARD C. RUTHERFORD ~ Mongo Hits the Mark
JEREMY ADAM SMITH ~ Slave
FLASH FICTION
SARAH MALONEY ~ Five-Minute-Date-O-Thon
TARA L. MASIH ~ How She Found Her Way Back In
KEVIN BROWN ~ Scarred
LOUISA HOWEROW ~ Reading Slides in Room 104
RYAN B. RICHEY ~ Head Start
~ Belle
AMANDA LEDUC ~ The Load
LORI ROMERO ~ Relics
STEPHEN JOHNSTON ~ A Place Apart
POETRY
DENISE DUHAMEL ~ My Shortcut
MICHAEL S. GLASER ~ Eve’s Reach
K.H. SOLOMON ~ Elder Statesman
MARK NEELY ~ Lorenzo Plays the Dog
~ Another Saturday
~ Lorenzo Crashes His Intervention
SAVANNAH THORNE ~ Vincent
~ Elizabeth Bathory
CHRISTINA LOVIN ~ Echo I
~ Echo II
ANDREA L. WATSON ~ weaver’s hands
~ wildcraft
~ Watch Four God-Fearing American Girls _____
Their Way Across the Continent
JEFFREY WARZECHA ~ The Math Teacher’s Winnebago
RANDALL HORTON ~ A Male Legacy Uninterrupted
JEFFREY C. ALFIER ~ To A Friend Gone Fugitive
CLAIRE KEYES ~ The Moth Man
CHRISTINA PACOSZ ~ Celia Speaks
AMY WATKINS ~ Riding the Scrub Trail at Dusk
~ Single
LAWRENCE KESSENICH ~ Behind the Curtain
PROSE POEMS
MICHELLE MENTING ~ What Would Wendy Do
~ To Bring Ivy Back
KATHLEEN DUSENBERY ~ Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
CREATIVE NONFICTION
RICHARD GOODMAN ~ My Beautiful Ann
JILL CHRISTMAN ~ Burned
KENDRA ANN THOMAS ~ Uncle Rick
LISA VAN ORMAN HADLEY ~ Sex Candles
ESSAY
TOM MAREMAA ~ Pound & Joyce, and Those Cool Brown Shoes
DRAMA
KATHY COUDLE KING ~ A Couple of Boobs
ANNE PHELAN ~ The Tale of the Duck
STEVEN SCHUTZMAN ~ Tammy
PHOTOGRAPHY
GÉRARD LAVALETTE ~ Jacquez Duvivier
ALBERT R. LEVY ~ Greenwich Village—1960
~ Children Playing, New York City, 1961
~ More Than a Few Years Ago
~ Before the Carnival Starts
SEBASTIÁN UTRERAS LIZANA ~ Backstage Sao Paulo Fashion Week
~ Woman selling fish in the market, Haiti
~ 2006. Santiago, Chile
STACEY DEBONO ~ Leaning Tree of Diablo
MICHAEL EPPS ~ la fumée obtient dans vos yeux
~ Homme d’oiseau
VINAYAK GARG ~ Saadhu
~ A Walk Along the Lonely Road
BETH HOMMEL ~ Amanda Palmer performs with the Dresden
Dolls at the NorVa
ALISON SWEIDAN ~ Under Sydney Harbor Bridge --In Fog.
CLAIRE WISE ~ Sisters
THOMAS WESCHTA ~ Suchen & Finden
~ Barkeeper
~ Zeitsprung
EMILY MILLER ~ The Love of Learning
VIOLA LORENZA SAVARESE ~ Le Ingiurie degli Anni #2
MICHAEL MATLACH ~ On-The-Road-Again, Ava, Myanmar
RON PYKE ~ A misty Monday morning in Stora Torget
SALVA MEHTASH & XU-LING TU ~ Vakio (Cover Photo)
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES