THE MISSING PIECE OF THE PUZZLE
(vol. 36, no. 3, auturm 2024)

Cover photograph
Puzzle Cat by Michele Ivy Davis

Contents
[stories, short-shorts, poems, photographs)

Photograph, Sarah Gay Edwards, viii

The Ghost of the Lavender Lady, Lynda Fox, 1

Pieces That Came My Way, Judith Overmier, 6

Puzzled Australia, Allan Lake, 7

Quitting Smoking Can Be…, R.G. Halstead, 9

Mr. Boddy, James Scruton, 14

A Choice of Analogies, Linda Berry, 15

The Girl in the Hay Cart, Paul A. Freeman, 23

Puzzle Pieces, Morgan Carlock Clark,  27

The Joy Is in the Making, Sandra Schnakenburg, 29

Single Puzzle Piece
     Found on Sidewalk, John Savoie, 50

Puzzled, Erica Hoffman, 51

Puzzling, Kathleen Gunton, 55

Uncle Ferdy’s Buried Treasure, Lynda Fox, 57

Sta lin’s Cat, Larry Lefkowitz, 66

Puzzle Poem, Lora Berg, 67

Five Hundred Pieces, Robinne Weiss, 69

Find Where You Fit, photograph by Lynda Fox, 74

Afternoon at the Dog Park, Lynda Fox, 75

Premise: Communication, 82