Volume 2, Number 1
October 1, 2000
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| Table of Contents | Headwaters |
| Editor's Notes | |
| "Among Women" Jessie Harriman | Women breathe questions into one another. |
| "The Best Cake Made Both of Us Sad" Chris Offutt | Last night's rain has drained the air of all but blue. |
| "That Little Boy You're Holding" Sydney Lea | Remember how you'd ask me why I couldn't ever "say things straight"? |
| "Driving to the River" Robert Vivian | Driving to the river is listening to the highway moan in cold asphalt, syllables that rasp a clean wave from Omaha to Lincoln. |
| "When the Rain Came" Earl Swift | Stand on the ford below his house, Davis Creek more pebble than water underfoot, and it's difficult to picture the place as it was that night in 1969. |
| "The Delight Maker" Charles Kemnitz | It didn't matter what I had intended in the beginning when I followed the trail with my family; somewhere I had taken a wrong turn and found myself staring at him for the third time in 30 years. |
| "Hairdo" Tom Feeney | Mrs. Eleanor Venesky was of the opinion in January 1995 that she was about to die, although she had no hard medical evidence to suggest it. |
| "On Forgiveness" Jane Bernstein | I think of my brunch with the murderer often, even though our date was in April 1994. |
| "Telling the Truth about Murder in America" Eric Heyne | The true-crime story has a long and occasionally distinguished history in the annals of American literature. |
| "Direction" Judith Kitchen | Just before my 21st birthday, I hitchhiked across Europe with one of my girlfriends from college. |
| "Crossing the Border" Mimi Schwartz | My husband and I decided to rent a car and take the 25-mile drive into the hills northwest of Zurich, because I wanted a glimpse into what my father's life might have been without Hitler. |
| "Female Troubles" Susan Olding | The Bay Center for Birth Control is a small, squat building made of yellow brick. It sits back of the road, behind a stamp-sized yard, dwarfed and doomed by the gleaming towers that surround it on all sides. |
| "Hiking with Amy" Fleda Brown | There is a little snow on the ground, mostly packed into ice. |
| "Period of the Gruesome" Jon Hughes | The remarkable Cincinnati journalism of Lafcadio Hearn has been appropriately called his "period of the gruesome" by one biographer. |
| "Dolly: An Idyll of the Levee" Lafcadio Hearn | "The Lord only," once observed Officer Patsy Brazil, "knows what Dolly's real name is." |
| "Carson High" Jon Christensen | The alarm woke Jason Hadwick at quarter to six. |
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