The Missouri Review: Altered States (Volume XXII Number 1 1999)

Fiction: Emily Pease "Tad Lincoln's Ladder of Dreams" Michael Byers "The Largest Room" Roger Sheffer "Music of the Inner Lakes" Stephanie Rosenfeld "Grasp Special Comb" Steve Adams "The Chosen" William Richardson "The Spring House" Essay: Adria Bernardi "Hep-Lock" Melanie Hammer "A Yankees Fan in the Floating World" Carl Schiffman "Race Thoughts" Interview: Ernest J. Gaines Poetry: Jeffery Levine "Dawn, With Cardinals" "One Month Before His 50th Birthday" "Penelope Draws From Life" "It Turns Out Circe Has Something of a Past" "Telemachos in San Miguel" Morri Creech "On the Nature of Starlings" "The Heaven of Memory" "Vernacular" "Landscape of Heaven" "Honey and John the Baptist" "Dogwood" "Provision" Susan Terris "Reunion" "Twelve: Rough and Unsugared" "Thirteen: The Iron Handle of Innisfree" "Fourteen: Bedtime Story" "Fifteen: Running Goose-Eye" "Sixteen: Tolling the Bell" Adrie Kusserow "Crossing Borders" "Hunting Down the Monk" "Orphanage, Missionaries of Charity, Kathmandu, Nepal" "Bulimia Religiosa"