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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar Et Cetera English Student Research 1986 et cetera Marshall University Follow this and additional works at: https://mds.marshall.edu/english_etc Part of the Appalachian Studies Commons, Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Marshall University, "et cetera" (1986). Et Cetera. 47. https://mds.marshall.edu/english_etc/47 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English Student Research at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Et Cetera by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. The Marshall Literary Magazine ,i I Et Cetera The Marshall Literary Magazine 1985-86 Marshall University Huntington, WV 1985-86 Et Cetera Staff Editor .......................................................... John Harvey Prose Editor ..................................................... Pamela Steed Poetry Editor .................................................... Steve Holley Art/Photography Editor ............................................ Wes Curry Staff Assistants ............................................ Chris Quackenbush Richard Sullivan Marc Crutchfield Wally Raynes Vicki Boatright Advisor .................................................... Dr. David Stooke Prose Judge ............................................... Dr. Gwenneth Hood Poetry Judge .................................................. Dr. Bill Ramsey Art Judge ................................................... Mr. Robert Rowe Photography Judge ........................................ Ms. Rebecca Johnson Cover Design ..................................................... Wes Curry ET CETERA Copyright 1986 Individual rights retained by authors I was just told not to thank anybody in this blurb, but I can't help myself: too many kindnesses to forget. Dr. Richard Spilman and Dr. John McKernan both helped tremendously. Student interest was high all year, and I owe a debt even to those who could care less, but listen- ed to my excited ramblings anyway. Finally--who else?--as front man for the English Dept. Dr. Leonard Deutsch made a few good blocks. Thanks to all. John Harvey, editor Ee Cecera By A Dim Light, !st Place Art, FredSilent Hightower Drop, ............................................................... iv !st Place Poetry Lisa Graley. I !st Place Fiction Nacht Und FernesPamela Fahren,Steed ................................................... 2 1st Place Photography, Elaine Whitely ....................................................... 6 2nd Place Poetry Reddy Creek, Timothy Wellman . 7 2nd Place Art, Billy Conley ................................................................ 8 Little2nd Place Red: Fiction A Modern Stage Adaptation,Elgin Ward ................................................... 9 Forgotten2nd Place Photography, Graveyard, Lynn Dinsmore ..................................................... 13 Landfill, Timothy Wellman ................................... 14 Chance Meeting, Timothy Wellman .................................................... 15 Can't KeepElgin Laughing, Ward ...................................................................... IS Mae West's Bedroom,Elgin WarJ .............................................................. 15 TheI Woman ls At Her Best,Pamela SreeJ. ........ 16 Halloween My Birth SteveWept, Holley ......................................................... 20 Go Left, Young Lady, into Prehistory,Steve Holley ................................................... 20 Was This How ChaucerI Began?,Steve Holley .................................................. 20 Driving to Lexington, KY, Mary Sansom ......................................... 21 Lee Wood ................................................. 22 Lee Wood ...................................................... 22 'The end of splendor comes", Mary South .................................................... 23 "Found Poem", Samuel Bauserman .......................................................... 23 The Accomplice, LE. Welch .............................................................. 24 01'Alliteration, Squacky Breaks Bad, Phyllis A. Kirk .................................................... 25 ConditionedPhoto, Joel Cook Response, ......................................................................... 26 Sade C'est, Zen 13 ...................................................................... 27 Mother, Zen 13 ............................................................ 27 Or Lack ThereZen Of,13 ........................................................................ 28 Harmless,Zen 13 .......................................................................... 28 October Dawn, Zen 13 ................................................................. 28 Irene Orrick .................................................................... 29 Boys, Irene Orrick ............................................................... 30 Photo,A Community Kim Aaron Affair, ........................................................................ 31 WhiteJohn Hat, Williams ...................................................................... 32 John Williams ....................................................... 32 After the Summer,Tonya Adkins ................................................................. 32 The"Notice", Ideal, Marc Crutchfield ................................................................. 32 Janitress, Beth Payne ............................................................ 33 Chris Quackenbush ............................................................. 33 Fantasy Taube Cyrus .................................................................... 33 Art,Lenora's Chris Poem, Quackenbush .................................................................. 34 II, Alan Scott .................................................................... 35 Revival, Alan Scott ................................................................ 35 "ThreeGo Ye IntoPoems," All TimThe R. World, Massey .............................................................. 36 Tornado,Richard Sullivan ................................................................. 36 Passage, Suzanne Callihan ............................................... 37 Suzanne Callihan ............................................................... 37 Gina Johnson .................................................................... 37 Arr, Vicki Boatright ...................................................................... 38 Bummed Out, Bruce Hollis ................................................................ 39 The Show,John Harvey .................................................................. 40 1st Place Art, Fred Hightower 1st Place Poetry By A Dim Light Lisa Graley Well, kid, the romanticist in me came out again tonight. You should have been here ft was raining outside with the slight happenings of a storm I was crazy in love with the weather so I held a minor celebration in its honor I turned the lights out and lit my kerosene lantern I always liked to take a bath by candlelight so I thought I'd try it by lantern So, there I was sitting in a tub of hot water by the light of a lantern. The rain was coming down outside with an occas ional flash of lightning and I enjoyed myself tremendously. Things could have been perfect if I could hat•e had homemade soap and a whiskey bottle full of lemonade. Seriously, things were so great that I just had to write and cell you about them I came to my room with the lantern --not wanting to break the mood and hunted for my pen (which will probably nm out of ink before I finish) and some yellow paper, or faded paper Eventually, I had to tear a blank page from an old history book I don't know if it's yellow or not. It looks yellotv in the light of the lantern. Anyway, here I am stooped over a wooden stool writing this letter beside the lantern The rain is still coming down and I hardly want to sleep because I'm enjoying this mood so much. I hope it is still raining when I wake up in the morning-•it's the sweetest music, I think. I forgot to mention that I'm wearing my green doctor uniform ... I have clean sheets on the bed The lantern light makes them look cool and soft --nice, I like that The whole world seems dark outside my circle of lantern light and the rain is coming down harder. 1st Place Fiction Silent Drop Pamela Steed The coffee cup rattles in its saucer until Eliot stops touching something different this evening to the girl in number three. it. Some mornings he can get it all the way to his lips without The girl, Francis, once invited Eliot down to her apartment spotting his tie, this is not one of those mornings. Eliot has for drinks and she got drunk and called her boys little thoughts, nasty little thoughts that make his fingers twitch broken-rubber mistakes, and Eliot had not known whether and his head throb, and he's altogether a miserable sight in to laugh or frown, so he did neither. That was the only even- the mornings, that's what his wife would say if he had one but ing he'd spent alone with her and had since worried that he he doesn't. Women are frightening creatures because they ex- had done something wrong or stupid to make her drink so pect men to be presentable in the mornings even if they much and lose control of her tongue. But