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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...


MY TEN FAVORITE BOOKS
1. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The story moves between contemporary Maine and Depression era Minnesota. Powerful story with...


CONTEST WINNER: A CALL TO DAD
The car was almost two years old when six drunken teenagers had relocated it


SUMMER WRITING CONTEST
Write a story or poem inspired by this photo


Prologue to THE REBEL NUN
. . . the pagan rituals, shrines, and deities had guided our tribes for centuries


A WHEELBARROW WILL DO
“I think it was that daydreamer of yours.”


CLYDE'S DIAMOND LANE CAPER
Do you want to pick up a dead body in Torrance for me?


GREETINGS! 1993
How dare they remind me, in bold type, that I was a half-century old!?


FLOTSAM
I toss and drift along, without plan or thought


HIDDEN WOMAN
I slipped the chain from the first lock


EASTER IN PEARBLOSSOM
We managed to rattle and smoke our way into the little town of Pearblossom


THE PACT
When it’s time . . .


RURAL COLORADO
Forty hurried steps . . . to a graywood privy


Book Excerpt: THE PARIS VENDETTA
… they threw Victor’s grandparents out on the street, where they died.


HOME-BREWED
How To Make Wine was a roadmap to a continuous flow of low-cost nectar


TICKET TO RIDE
Time to move on


THE BOOK and THE DIAMOND
Facets shine
Scenes escape


COVER ART
Spring 2021
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