The Delmarva Review volume 7 Editorial Board Wilson Wyatt, Jr., Executive Editor Anne Colwell, Poetry Editor
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Wilson Wyatt, Jr., Executive Editor Anne Colwell, Poetry Editor Harold O. Wilson, Co-Fiction Editor Amy Abrams, Co-Fiction Editor George Merrill, Co-Nonfiction Editor Cheryl Somers Aubin, Co-Nonfiction Editor Cheril Thomas, Submissions Bill Gourgey, Publishing Gerald F. Sweeney, Editorial Advisor Melanie Rigney, Editorial Advisor Design and Layout Editor, Laura Ambler Copyediting, Jeanne Pinault Proofreading, Charlene Marcum Cover photograph: Roger Camp, “Dolls, Provincetown, MA” The Delmarva Review is published annually in print and digital editions by the Eastern Shore Writers Association, a nonprofit organization supporting writers and the literary arts across the Delmarva Peninsula (including portions of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia). Additional support is provided by private contributions and sales. The content of each issue is determined solely by the editorial board. The Review welcomes new prose and poetry submissions from all writers, regardless of residence. Editors consider only those manuscripts submitted electronically during specific submission periods. The dates and guidelines are posted on the website: www.delmarvareview.com. General correspondence can be sent to: The Delmarva Review P.O. Box 544, St. Michaels, MD 21663 Or e-mail: editor@delmarvareview.com Copyright 2014 by the Eastern Shore Writers Association www.easternshorewriters.org Library of Congress Control Number: 2008215789 Paperback: ISBN-13: 978-0-9883456-1-4 Electronic: ISBN-13: 978-0-9883456-2-1 ii • THE DELMARVA REVIEW • VOLUME 7 Preface
literary journal dedicated to the discovery of compelling new prose and poetry. We are pleased to present a sampling of voices and writing styles of 40 contributors from 14 states, the District of Columbia, and one foreign country. Over a thousand authors submitted their work for consideration in 2014. As editors, we are grateful for the opportunity to read their poems, short fiction, and essays. The published pieces represent a fraction of the good writing we received. The cover features doll artifacts that conjure images from times past. They tease our imaginations with the potential for discovery. Like the promise of literature, these crafted ceramic parts have survived generations and traveled far. The dolls were once whole, their parts attached, like a writer’s characters. Their purpose was to inspire or entertain an audience. The pieces, some 100 to 200 years old, were gathered at low tide from under time-weathered piers in Provincetown harbor, off Cape Cod. Fine art photographer Roger Camp arranged them to create the cover photograph, giving them renewed visibility.
Readers, many of whom are writers themselves, will find diversity among the pieces selected for this edition. The writing that follows will give readers a sense of the writer’s voice and command of craft. It is likely that something here will engage and inspire you. The publisher, the Eastern Shore Writers Association, and the talented volunteers on the Review’s Editorial Board, join me in welcoming you to these pages of literary discovery.
Executive Editor VOLUME 7 • THE DELMARVA REVIEW • iii Contents iii Preface iv Contents 1 FICTION 3 August Evans The Mythology of the Wife 15 Cathy Herbert The Estate Sale 24 Denise Emanuel Clemen Bread 35 Valeri Miner Something in the Way She Knows 45 Ellen Prentiss Campbell Entangled Objects 57 Brandon Getz Robot on a Park Bench 63 Robert I. Mann The Player 65 Sarah Barnett Dining in Rome 73 Christina McDaniel Tomorrow We'll Be Salt 88 Ree Davis A Limitless Sky 99 NONFICTION 100 Linda Morefield The Graveyard of Books iv • THE DELMARVA REVIEW • VOLUME 7 107 Robert Vivian
VOLUME 7 • THE DELMARVA REVIEW • v 149 Meg Hunter
vi • THE DELMARVA REVIEW • VOLUME 7 171 John McCarthy Pickup Truck (#13) Pickup Truck (#16) Pickup Truck (#11) 175 Darren Demaree Emily as it Matters If This is a Forest or a Ship Emily as the First Question is a Blood Question Emily as Otherwise, the Bustle 178 Manda Frederick Postcard from I-90 Kinetic in the Dark 180 Barbara Ryder-Levinson Seasons of Grief After Reading Jamaica Kincaid 183 BOOK REVIEWS Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon Wilmot Here, Collect for Stella by Christian Anton Gerard Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back by Bruce Riedel 190 Contributors 197 Orders VOLUME 7 • THE DELMARVA REVIEW • vii Share with your friends:
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