Green Hills Literary Lantern XIII (2003)
Cover Painting:
“Resurgence,” by Jack Rickard, 1998, mixed media collage on 300 pound watercolor paper, 22×30 inches.
Cover Design:
Pete Anger, Helios Studio, Columbia, MO
The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Volume 13, Copyright ©2002 by Truman State University
Fiction
| Evelyn Somers | Vegetable Love |
| Darren DeFrain | Bowser |
| DeWitt Henry | Arias |
| Virgil Suarez | Hilario, El Carretero del Barrio |
| Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba, Circa 1969 | |
| Shelia Thorne | Telling Lies |
| Doug Rennie | The Lucky Ones |
| Karl Harshbarger | The Six-Thirty to Cedar Rapids |
| Robert Garner McBrearty | Transformations |
| Dennis Must | Typewriter |
| Joan Connor | The Betrayal |
| Heather Burt | Burma |
| Barry Kitterman | Mediators |
| Sean Padraic McCarthy | Undertow |
| Shannon Spencer | The Fat Man Rules |
| Franklin Wharam | A Fish is Your Reward |
| J. Malcolm Garcia | Evening Run |
| Mark SaFranko | Alone |
Poetry
| Diana Collins | Thanksgiving |
| James Doygle | Salome |
| Terry Godbey | Beauty Lessons at 12 |
| Fred Yannatuono | Hands |
| Jim Thomas | Dark Confetti |
| Ant at Play | |
| Scotch and Snow | |
| Stan’s Tree | |
| Carol Coffee Reposa | Cocoa Chewer in a Quito Museum |
| R.S. Carlson | Eucalyptus Country Market |
| Elizabeth Levy Merrick | Fireflies |
| Maureen Tolman Flannery | Funeral Homes |
| Jean Esteve | Go |
| Louis Phillips | Is There Anybody Out There? The Universe Speaks a Language Few of Us Understand |
| Douglas H. Fritock | My Grandfather’s Cigar |
| Todd James Pierce | Ode to Adam Ant |
| The Third Act of Marriage | |
| Francine Marie Tolf | One Morning at Nineteen |
| Still Waiting | |
| Lynne Potts | Orange Lamp |
| Rachel Squires Bloom | Playing It Safe |
| Victoria’s Secret | |
| David E. Thomas | Rest Stop-Blythe |
| California | |
| James Doyle | Sunday |
| Women Drying Their Hair | |
| The Dunes | |
| James Galbraith | The Divine and the Human |
| Deanne Bayer | The Geography of Sand |
| The History of Gulls | |
| Walter Bargen | The Unmistaken |
| Jimos Olih | This Letter Is Not from Me |
| William Jolliff | To Little of the Woe |
| Max Gutmann | Training Wheels |
| Melissa Leaf Nelson | Waiting for Rain |
| J.W. Major | Waitress |
| King Farish | West of Bucktown-Chicago |
| Chris Kingley | What the Truth Can Do |
| Jackie Bartley | Maintenance |
| C. Wallace Hornbacker | Why We Are Together |
| Always | |
| Evelyn Funda | PreSage |
| Suki Wessling | Grocery Shopping |
| David Lawrence | The Consequences of Life |
| Maybe if I Took Them Off I’d Be Happier | |
| Pat Cronin | Used Books |
| Robyn Art | Origami |
| Angela Kozol | On Whitsunday |
| David Thompson | Smoke, Drink, and Talk about Girls’ Asses |
| Susan Terris | River of Milky Light |
| Timothy Fox | A Tough Return to Normalcy |
| Priscilla Atkins | Reading Neruda’s Odes While Eating a Pear |
| Eliot Khalil Wilson | Customs |
| Michael Steffen | “Romantic Websites Earn Money” |
| Eileen Doherty | Wanting to Be a Rallenda |
| Jim Douglas | Summer |
Essay
| Teresa Wax | The Matter of the Colonel |
Reviews
| Daniel Marlin | A Review of Ralph Dranow’s Sunday Ritual |
| Louise Domaratius | A Review of Helen Sanford Wilhelm’s Messages from a Distant Star |