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June 1997 Issue
June 1997 Cover
Chandler Burr, “The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health”; Mark Sagoff, “Do We Consume Too Much?”; Larry Heinemann, “The Fragging”; Francis Davis, “The Man From Heaven”; and much more. View Magazine
  • Transylvania Today
    Jeffrey Tayler
  • The AIDS Exception: Privacy vs. Public Health
    Chandler Burr
  • Do We Consume Too Much?
    Mark Sagoff
  • Word Improvisation
    J. E. Lighter
  • The Man From Heaven
    Francis Davis
  • The Positive Negative
    Ian Frazier

Unanswered Prayers

By Anonymous
June 1997 Issue
Saved Stories

KISS
by Reginald Gibbons


PRAYER
by Patricia Hooper

PSALM
by Mark Jarman

LEARNING HOW TO PRAY
by Cathy Smith Bowers

SANSKRIT BY FIRST SNOWFALL
by Brooks Haxton

NOT MY LEG
by David J. Rothman