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FICTION, NONFICTION, AND POETRY SAMPLES

For twenty years the Chrysalis Reader has featured many writers and artists, including new work by Robert Bly, Kate Chappell, Susan Cheever, Larry Dossey, Wyn Cooper, John Eccles, William Kloefkorn, Raymond Moody, Richard Moskowitz, Linda Pastan, Stephen Larsen, Wesley McNair, Franklin Reeve, Bernie Siegel, Pat Schneider, Virgil Suárez, Wilson Van Dusen, and many others.

The contents of our two most recent issues are listed below their cover images. Samples of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can be viewed by clicking on a highlighted article or poem. (Not all articles and poetry are available for viewing.)

To view poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from other issues, click on the book's title below, or click here to see previous years samples.


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IMAGINE THAT (2007)
Editor's Note
Portal to Abyssinia
  by Rob Lawson
 
Awake in Oxford (poem)
  by Thom Satterlee
Ahmed (nonfiction)
  by Steve Whitaker
 
Part I
Teaching a Class on Meditation (poem)
  by Fredrick Zydek
And Not as a Stranger (fiction)
  by Linda McCullough Moore
 
Part II
Afterward (fiction)
  by Cathy Strasser
Frozen Foods (Non-fiction)
  by Wayne Carhart
Fog (poem)
  by Helen Haskell Remien
Drop-off in Nairobi (Non-fiction)
  by Jane E.Buckingham
 
Part III
Empty Nest (non-fiction)
  by M. Garrett Bauman
 
Part IV
First Lady of the Grays (Non-fiction)
  by Tom Lombardo
Are We Alone in the Universe? (non-fiction)
  by Raymond Moody
 
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PASSAGES (2006)
Editor's Note
Ghost Ship
  by Rob Lawson
 
The Road (poem)
  by Thomas R. Smith
Approaching the Eye of the Needle (non-fiction)
  by P. J. Ruschmann
 
Part I
The Magic Rocking Chair (fiction)
  by Susan Liev Taylor
Chocolat Religieuse (nonfiction)
  by Sarah Clowes
 
Part II
In Brooklyn (fiction)
  by C.E. Cherry
The Old Fishing Lines (poem)
  by Robert Bly
 
Part III
The First Peugeot of Spring (poem)
  by Art Stein
Under New Management (non-fiction)
  by Wick Skinner
 
Part IV
Wake Up in Glory (fiction)
  by Franz Douskey
Recliner (fiction)
  by Vincent DeCarolis
 
Passages is available for purchase.

 
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