Special Feature: Science Fiction and Fantasy in North Carolina
Cover art by Olivia Gatewood
North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers: A Bibliographic Essay
by Warren G. Rochelle
Orson Scott Card: A Study in Contrasts
by W. A. Senior
Faces in Stained Glass
a story by Paul A. Gilster
illustrated by Lali
Interviews in Cold Springs, North Carolina
a story by Warren Rochelle
illustrated by Lali
An Alien in Raleigh: An Interview with John Kessel
by C.W. Sullivan, III, and James Craig Holte
It Came Out of the Sky
a story by F. Brett Cox
photography by Jamie Konarski
At the Instantaneous Center of Rotation
a novel excerpt by William Barton
art by Jerry Kirk and Clara Lieu
Martin Gardner: North Carolina’s Historian of Oz and Annotator of Alice
by Mark I. West
Blue Moon
a story by Matthew Twining
illustrated by Harvey Bilisoly
How Does Your Garden Grieve?
an essay by Martin K. Smith
illustrated by Louise Zjawin Francke
Poetry, Prose, and Fiction
A Pompeiian Dispensation, Revenir, and After the Ball
three poems by David Tillinghast
illustrations by Joan Mansfield
The Ants and the Double Helix
a poem by Catherine Carter
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick
After Another Death and Loaf
two poems by Mark Smith-Soto
photography by Jacquelyn Tait Leebrick
Pelican
a poem by Chris Waters
art by Alan Cheek
Marlin Run, Ocracoke
a poem by Julie Kate Howard
Salting Cows
an essay by C.V. Davis
photography by Jamie Konarski
Carrying
an essay by James O. Chatham
Nora
a short story by Tammy Wilson
illustrations by Shelton Bryant
Want Ads
a short story by Kim Church
Food Finds
Food and Culture
by Lorraine Hale Robinson
Udderly Delicious: The Cow Cafe, New Bern
by Lorraine Hale Robinson
J. Basul Noble, High Point
by Lorraine Hale Robinson
Dick’s Hot Dog Stand, Wilson and Dip’s in Chapel Hill
by Virginia Gunn Fick
Book Reviews
Circles of Light and Journeys into Darkness
a review of Tony Earley’s Jim the Boy
by Tim Edwards
Fortunate Son
a review of Eric Martin’s Luck
by Jeff Abernathy
Of Mythic Beasts and Mobile Homes I Sing
a review of Steven Sherrill’s The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
by George Hovis
New Voices in the New South
a review of Judith Minthorn Stacy’s Styles by Maggie Sweet and Judy Goldman’s The Slow Way Back
by Barbara Bennett
An Edge on the Outer Banks
a review of Alyson Hagy’s Graveyard of the Atlantic and David Stick’s An Outer Banks Reader
by Tonita Branan
art by Alan Cheek
Strains of Country Music
a review of three new poetry collections
by Jake Adam York
Struggles and Heroism of Southern Life
a review of James O. Chatham’s Sundays Down South: A Pastor’s Stories
by James Norton
North Carolina Writers
Dictionary of North Carolina Writers, McClanahan to Murrow
by Lorraine Hale Robinson
“The Poetics of Work”: An Interview with Robert Morgan
by Patrick and Resa Crane Bizzaro
NC Newsbriefs
by Corinee Guy
2000–2001 Student Staff
Editorial Assistants
Allyson Michelle Graham
Corinee Guy
Melissa Edmundson
Interns
Jacki Wright
Courtney Martin
Patrick Phillips
Gene Willoughby, II
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