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 Chrysalis: 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 these 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.)


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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
 
Imagine That is available for purchase.

 

  
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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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