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Straitjackets Magazine
Spring 2021


EDITOR'S DESK
Welcome to the Spring issue of Straitjackets Magazine. The editors thank Judy Maré for the wonderful contribution she made during her...
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MY TEN FAVORITE BOOKS
1. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The story moves between contemporary Maine and Depression era Minnesota. Powerful story with...
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CONTEST WINNER: A CALL TO DAD
The car was almost two years old when six drunken teenagers had relocated it
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SUMMER WRITING CONTEST
Write a story or poem inspired by this photo
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Prologue to THE REBEL NUN
. . . the pagan rituals, shrines, and deities had guided our tribes for centuries
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A WHEELBARROW WILL DO
“I think it was that daydreamer of yours.”
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CLYDE'S DIAMOND LANE CAPER
Do you want to pick up a dead body in Torrance for me?
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GREETINGS! 1993
How dare they remind me, in bold type, that I was a half-century old!?
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FLOTSAM
I toss and drift along, without plan or thought
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HIDDEN WOMAN
I slipped the chain from the first lock
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EASTER IN PEARBLOSSOM
We managed to rattle and smoke our way into the little town of Pearblossom
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THE PACT
When it’s time . . .
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RURAL COLORADO
Forty hurried steps . . . to a graywood privy
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Book Excerpt: THE PARIS VENDETTA
… they threw Victor’s grandparents out on the street, where they died.
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HOME-BREWED
How To Make Wine was a roadmap to a continuous flow of low-cost nectar
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TICKET TO RIDE
Time to move on
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THE BOOK and THE DIAMOND
Facets shine
Scenes escape
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COVER ART
Spring 2021
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