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Fall 2010

Cold Mountain Review (CMR) is proud to announce the release of its Fall issue.

We are honored to once again place in your hands what we consider to be some of the most interesting and thought provoking work from some of the nation's best writers, artists and storytellers. The fall issue includes work from a startlingly broad array of voices and perspectives, from the solitude of the potter's workbench to the promise of a brightly lit fourth grade classroom to the uneasy desolation of a hospital waiting room at night.

The current issue of CMR features a striking full-color cover photograph by Matt Powell as well as poetry by Becky Gould Gibson, Mark Jay Brewin Jr., Carol Hamilton, Jim Bainbridge, Virginia Shank, Weston Cutter, and other notable contributors. The issue also includes creative non-fiction by Harmony Neal, a haunting account of love and loss by Robert Busby, as well as an unforgettable tale of faith and family by novelist Ted Wojtasik. The issue showcases the photo essay "Stolen Childhood." This documentary work by Michael Mullady presents an unflinching look at the lives of child coal miners.

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Non-Fiction Excerpts

Hungry by Harmony Neal

Tell me a secret, I say, lying in bed, after sex, exhausted and aching. Tell me a secret, I say, not really needing a secret so much as a tiny bit of him.I don't have any.Of course you do, I murmur, everyone does. I'm thinking of my own secrets, the...
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Fiction Excerpts

Blessed Ham by Ted Wojtasik

When I was six years old, I killed my cocker spaniel. No one knew that I had actually killed him, so no one had ever blamed me for his death. The entire incident had been tucked away, first one fold and then another fold, into family silence. For...
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The Bear Wife by Robert Busby

Noal Brown sits up and catches the pager vibrating on the coffee table above him, sees the page is from the sheriff's station. Decides to radio in from the truck. This is Friday. This is February. He lies back down on the rug where he's been...
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Eastbound by Kate Ver Ploeg

The first thing you notice when the door to the semi swings open is the smell. Vanilla Spice and Cinnamon Sunrise, you'll identify later, and old cigarette and Febreeze. Heavy and artificial, it saunters down the tall cab stairs, squeezing around...
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Poetry Excerpts

Morning, Simple Springs Farm by Becky Gould Gibson
Jim Bainbridge by Before the Divorce
Before the Divorce by Jim Bainbridge
Perfect Circle by Virginia Shank
Midsentence by Patricia Hooper
Numbers by Jared Harel
Butterflies on the Cowpats by Carol Hamilton

Contributor Bios

Jim Bainbridge, Jude Brancheau, Mark Jay Brewin Jr., Robert Busby, Rick Christman, James Cihlar, Weston Cutter, Julie Dunlop
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