SO THAT'S WHY!
(vol. 35, no. 3, autumn 2023)

Cover photograph: Keep reading!
by R. David Bowlus

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

The Thinker, Bill Thomas, viii

A Cold Reception, R.G. Halstead, 1

The Cat and the Hat, Sondra Rosenberg, 7

Zen Patriarch Dôgen Imagines the Process of Frying an Egg, James K. Zimmerman, 9

Me and Mary Tyler Moore, Judy Penz Sheluk, 11

Turning Point, Marilyn Johnston, 19

Teaching in Purgatory, David Wright, 21

Unexpected Comfort, John Petraglia, 31

Tomatoes, Paula Messina, 33

Our Species: A Bio-Note of Homo Sapiens, Changming Yuan, 36

That You, Beulah Rose?, Virginia McGee Butler, 37

Calculated Risk, Adrienne Stevenson, 44

First, Kathie Giorgio, 45

First Meeting, Or, What Could Be, James B. Nicola, 62

An Unexpected Complication, Charlotte Stacey, 63

An Anthem of City Planning, Harvey Steinberg, 74

Eternity, Rigo, 75

Medication Sale, Bill Thomas, 86

The Gated Garden, June Thompson, 87

Inferior Epistemologies, Deirdra Suwanee Dees, 93

Premise: Communication, 95