winter 2012
vol. vii. no. 1
ESSAYS
| The End of the War |
| by Patrick Cook | |
| The last time I had done any nursing had been twenty-five years earlier, in Vietnam. |
FICTION
| The Edge of Water |
| by Kevin Jones | |
| That November after Iraq, after all the surgeries on my leg, after I could get around with crutches instead of a wheelchair, after the bruising was only a memory and the concussion toned down to a few minor headaches that only bothered me in bright sunlight or movie theatres, I found myself in California again. |
SHORTS ON SURVIVAL
| God's Forgottens |
| by Maureen Lougen | |
| This ain't a place miracles ever happen. This ain't a place anything good ever happens. |
POETRY
| I Can't Help You |
| by Millicent Accardi | |
| I can’t help you kick The drug you call pancakes, Or the replacement You call syrup. |
OUR NAME
r.kv.r.y. - comes from the dictionary definition of the word recovery: an act, process, or instance of recovering; a return to normal conditions; something gained or restored in recovering; obtaining usable substances from unusable sources.