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~Spring '05 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Great stories! Great reading! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! The incredible, edible stuffed egg! by Margaret Anne Mitchell The Honer by Jim Hester Mississippi roots and Graceland by Victor Johnson Sprints by Terry Everett Chinese Heart of Texas by Mel Brown Ski humor: Warning to hotshots! shhhh by Beth Boswell Jacks We wore our patches proudly by Alita Deberry A Southern Homecoming by Randy Hill A tribute to Delta State University by Tom Givens This column really stinks by Charles Dowdy The Quiet of Reading by Claude Jones Irish troubadour sings of the wild geese by Gene Owens Spring Reveries by Lonnye Sue Pearson All in the presentation by Paul Jones Poetry and fiction of D. Ray by David Ray World War II memories by Billy Tom Lusk Excerpts: Pennies on the Tracks by Danny Lee Ingram Happiness is . . . by David Campbell Vicksburg Redtops: Rufus McKay wows crowd! by Joe Gary Don't give me no thick ankles! by Ed Williams Snake Tales by Newt Harlan Family follies and personal perils by Ann Ipock Saturday nights in Moorhead by Jim Harrison Gag me without a spoon! by Kent Fletcher The power of one by Jackie Cooper Miss Virginia by Walter Redden New writing site: Penwomanship.com by Penny White Meet this Louisiana author by Cora J. Morace A Southern Journal by Kathy Rhodes ________________________ Don't forget to visit the ARCHIVES ________________________ "All literature is gossip." - Truman Capote

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