AQR - Vol. 11, No. 1 & 2, Fall/Winter 1992

About the Cover

Low tide along Turnagain Arm creates an ever changing pattern of light, water and glacial silt. In season, the Arm hosts large schools of salmon and hooligan as well as pods of beluga and orca (killer) whales.

© John Tuckey

Table of Contents

Special Section: Tracy Kidder

To Catch the Reflection of Human Character: An Interview with Tracy Kidder
The Contract (from House)
In Quarantine
Railroads: Aboard the Ghost Trains

Fiction

Jack-o’-Lanterns, Ben Groff
The Housewarming, Robbie Clipper Sethi
Absence, Joy Passanante
The Flow of the Grain, Mike Clark
Arrowhead, Kevin Prufer
The Woman of the Seal, Yvette Edmonds-Hay
My Inheritance, Liesel Litzenburger
Backfire, Caroline Patterson
Finally, Alice, Paul Andrew E. Smith
A Guy, a Girl, Some Big Dreams, and a Vigilante Mob, Tom Chao

Poetry

Kalevala in West Barnstable, Ted Benttinen
Winter Eeling, Ted Benttinen
Keeping Watch, Jane Leer
Versions of Love, Deborah Tobola
Possible Light, Deborah Tobola
Spring Whale, Barrow, Deborah Tobola
The Hook, Deborah Tobola
Angels, Barbara Van Noord
Meditations Upon Bone, Barbara Van Noord
Setting Up the Mist Net for Mother and Father, Walter Pavlich
First the Ocean, then the River, then the Sea, Walter Pavlich