Gency Brown

Ava Hardy yearns for more than her job as a Tulsa Herald reporter. Her life, though comfortable, doesn’t answer questions about her future. Seeking clarity, she embarks on a sabbatical to a remote cabin in the mountains of eastern Oklahoma. Surrounded by the breathtaking landscape, Ava finds new friendships, a budding romance, and solitude, which all inspire her creative spirit for writing her second novel. Murder disrupts it all and unearths hidden truths from her past. Will it all lead to a greater understanding of her father and her destiny?

California-born Randy Walters dreams of Country Music stardom. After years of struggling in the harsh world of the music business in Nashville, TN, and a love interest gone bad, success finally comes.  Through it all, he battles guilt over deserting his widowed mother and small son. All the accolades and awards can't fill his need for the closeness of family and comforts of home. How can he have it all?

From Lynn C. Miller, Prose Editor
Inventive, magical, risk-taking are just a few words that describe the marvelous poems, prose and images inside this issue as our writers and visual artists delve into the theme of Playing with What is Real.  So pull up a chair, sit under a tree, collapse on the couch magazine in hand and enter into...what? You decide.

Sister is the story of a young woman who learns to honor her responsibilities to everyone else by following her own dreams.

Ladies Of The Quilt is a work of fiction which grew out of actual experiences in the author's life.