Spend The Best of Your Summer With--
The Best of Friends, Vol.1
(Samples below!)
An exciting collection of new Quaker writing and art, edited by Chuck Fager.
Meet 40 Friendly authors and artists, from 17 Yearly Meetings in three countries, who offer
* Captivating short stories
* Insightful essays
* Compelling personal testimonies
* Memorable poetry
* Spellbinding excerpts from new novels
* Vivid drawings
Published by Kimo Press, in association with The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts.
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By mail from: Kimo Press, P.O. Box 82, Bellefonte PA 16823.
The Best of Friends, Vol. 1--
Contents & Excerpts
Chuck Fager: Introduction
EPIGRAPH: Evelyn Lang--to take note of
ESSAYS
Best of Friends Award Essays by Dee Birch Cameron:
Like a Pinball in the Gutter
Maybe I’m Wrong
Wynne Busby: The Road to Amherst
Ken Maher: Father's Hand
Ann Sieber: Jan de Hartog--A Captain on the Ocean of Light and Love
Liz Yeats: Reading Religious Murder Mysteries for Relaxation, Fun and Sometimes a Bit of Spiritual Growth
Best of Friends Award Drawings, by Elmay Kirkpatrick
POETRY
Best of Friends Award for Poetry: Janeal Turnbull Ravndal:
Swarthmore Crop Walk; Business Meeting; and Scrabble Prayers
John de Valcourt: Quaker Men's Group
Margaret Diorio: Lost Boy
Camilla Hewson Flintermann: On Watching the Amaryllis Bloom
Margie Gaffron: In an Amish Cornfield
Esther Greenleaf Mürer: mammon his fourth commandment
Best of Friends Award for Writing by a Young Friend:
Aliyah Meena Shanti: The Universe's Language
Kristi Rozdilsky: An Affirmation in Bliss, Idaho
Sherita Saffer-Campbell: Noah's Wife
Ed Higgins: Two poems, Silenced by Autumn; and Haying
Tobin Marsh: pulling at the edge of your life
Paula Yup:
Faraway LivesBeverly Shepard:
Old Meeting HousesPeter Anderson: Prairie Crossing
Kenneth C. Leibman: Brother Lawrence, a Sonnet
James W. Newton: Paradox Lost
Helen Weaver Horn: My Grandma Knew What She Was Doing
Dorothy Mack: Desert Flowers
EXCERPTS FROM NOVELS
CSRussell: Excerpt from Mim, The Road Taken
David Morse: Excerpts from The Iron Bridge
Bonita Porter: Excerpt from Meriah of Sorrows
Drawings by Markley Morris
WITNESS
May Mansoor Munn: Two Snapshots from Ramallah
Michele Lise Tarter: Shakedown
Joe Miceli: Lights of Love
G. Springett: Untitled
Bonnie Zimmer: On Speaking Truth
H. Larry Ingle: Living the Truth, Speaking to Power, a reflective review.
Judith Weir: When There Is War...
SHORT STORIES
Best Of Friends Award Story:
Dee Birch Cameron: An Origami Day
Gerry Theisman: Carl's Cereal
ABOUT THE AUTHORS