New Amarillo Bay: Volume 17 Number 4
Robert Whitsitt Amarillo Bay
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You can see the fiction, non-fiction, and poetry starting on the Contents page.
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One of the highlights of my life is receiving manuscripts from our editors about a month before the next issue of Amarillo Bay is to appear. I read the fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry carefully in the process of preparing the works to be online. As always, I am quite pleased with the latest offerings.
The works for this issue are somewhat negative, in that several involve death. Still, death is part of life and we have to deal with it. One way is to write about it and another way is to read about it. There are also several cheery pieces that I think will make you smile. All are of literary quality, because that's what Amarillo Bay is about. There are four new stories, one work of creative nonfiction, and six poems, bringing our total number of works published up to 734 since we started in 1999. I think you will spend a happy time reading them, as I did starting a month ago! Here's the Contents page!
If you have a moment, let me tell you about a reading opportunity. You may have noticed small boxes in your neighborhood, about the size of a large birdhouse. Instead of birds, the boxes contain books. Anyone who wants to can take one. If you do so, you are encouraged to return it after you're done reading it. You might even drop off books that you've finished. It's a relatively new concept called Little Free Library (littlefreelibrary.org), with a noble objective: "Build a Literacy-Friendly Neighborhood." Here are some pictures of what the boxes look like. Here's a map you can use to find boxes near you. (Most of them are in the United States, but there are a few elsewhere.) Maybe you'd like to set one up where you live!
On a personal note, my mother, Billie Marie Whitsitt, died a few weeks ago, just short of her 94th birthday. She had been in declining health, and it was probably time for her to go. Nevertheless, it was a shock. I've flown to the Midwest to visit my brother and sister, but do not plan to go to her remembrance service. If you want to learn some about her, you can go to her obituary. She was an amazing person.
Enjoy the new issue!
Be sure to check out previous issues at the bottom of the Contents page. There are over 675 works available from the quarterly issues we have published since 1999.
Thank you for your continuing interest in Amarillo Bay!
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