The Straitjackets
Fall 2008
Table of Contents

Staff
Contributing Editors: Jim Hitt, Harlee Lassiter, Mary Jane Kruty,
Carrie McCabe, Marilyn McNeall , Lynne Spreen, Mary B. Stewart
Raymond Strait
cover art: "Rust #1 " by Vicki Allen-Hitt

Revolving Editor: Jim Hitt

Column:
A Look at Books
This issue: Collected Stories by Roald Dahl

Column:
Books Into Films
This issue: The Texas Rangers by Walter Prescott Webb
        The Big Heat by William T. McGiveern

Poetry:
For those who love e.e. cummings
Rodney Nelson

Memoir:
Food evokes Memory
Cajun Realization
by Hardy Jones

Short Story:
A short-short about eating, sex, and a moth
Sloppy
by Brandi Wells
Poetry:
Youth on Parade
Ryan Thomson

Book Excerpt :
A story of race, love, betrayal--and a visit with Joan Crawford
The Color of Love
by Herb Jeffries with Raymond Strait

Poetry:
The music of poetry, the poetry of music
Howard Feigenbaum

Short Story:
Where can a person find a perfect life?

Perfect
by  William "Bill" Blick

Poetry:
An important new voice in poetry
Carolyn Kingyens

Memoir:
Lorena Perera-Smith looks at her parents through their Love Letters
by Lorena Perera-Smith          

Novel Excerpt:
A novelist graces our pages with the first chapter of his new novel
Sound + Noise
by Curt Smith

Featured Poet:
Poetry of people
Carl Palmer

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