Vol.1, No.12 • June, 2008

From the Publisher Shirley Allard New Hampshire Extraction Annotations In The Great Void Mother's Good Girl Political....Me!? "Night of the Living Shoppers!" The Opening Bell Chemical Reaction Walt Whitman               Pulp Diction Robert Hazelton New York Not Quite Right Bob Church Missouri Whisper Gap Jo Janoski Pennsylvania From The Attic T. Owen Stark Virginia Cheshire Cat Chronicles Rusty Arquette Florida  Thinkin' Out Loud Nan Jabobs Pennsylvania Leftovers Dan Beams Illinois Songs of the Soul Harry Furness Carolina I beg these walls are not so thin That any sound would conquer them The moon in all its bathing glory Asks me not to share this story I wavered from the dreaming place To walk beside the mortal race Of men and heroes one and same To give my definition name ... for more from James Spoonmore...   Ernestina Gallina June's Word Catalyst Featured Artist Pietrivive Rock Painting Three hundred eighty two days passed while I paused to once again allow the world back into my life. Oh, consciously I would have denied my feelings. A fifty-year-old man doesn't stop functioning because he loses his father. Sure, there are those times when the still of night or pang of conscience disrupts my routine and hurls me down the slope of despondency towards the pits of despair. Usually, I find a way to hang by my knuckles on the ledge of hope until reason comes to rescue me. That's just what you do… nothing is served by letting go. If I didn't let go in Vietnam, I'm damned sure not going to let go over a man who spent eighty years on the planet. ... for the rest of the story from Bob Church...     I'm older than the Goth movement, if you can believe that. Had it existed when I was in secondary school or at University, I would have gone Goth. I was pretty much straight in secondary school. At the university, I became what was called by some a "Freak." Freaks differed from Hippies not in appearance but in attitude. Hippies had some some sort of philosophic agenda that they were pushing, if only by example. Freaks were dedicated to shaking people out of their complacency. The attitude was, "I don't know what's going on, but I am equally certain that you don't." ... for the rest of the piece from Jon Norland...   Word Catalyst's anniversary chapbook featuring 'Editor's Choice' selections from our first year of online publishing is now available. Order your copy and a copy for your friends of Inclinations   Support WordCatalyst   Please use the FEEDBACK form to report any problems.