2011 Issue - Santa Fe Community College

unedited stories of The Sun’s readerships are part of the reason I pick up
and buy a copy. The topic covered in the June issue is Taking Chances.
Here is an excerpt that one reader mailed in—“I began to sabotage my
mother’s drinking during the summer between fifth and sixth grade."
When she wasn’t looking, I poured the remaining beers in the fridge
down the drain. I also found a water bottle filled with vodka in the
bath-room closet, and I emptied it into the sink, then refilled it with tap
water, I was afraid she would catch me.” I always find the Reader’s Write
something I can relate to in a thought provoking way. (Send your typed
double-spaced submissions to Readers Write. The Sun, 107 North
Robertson Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516. Include e-mail and phone
number.)
Before I forget, The Sun is a wonderful place to see photographs
(black and white) that reflect imaginative editors who frequently
choose to spotlight the natural world. The cover of the June issue is of a
man holding a pig that seems to be smiling- No Kidding! The man is
smiling too. Why is this man grinning Pick up a Sun and find out. Or
send in your submissions to the address above or go to www.thesunmagazine.org
for submission guidelines.
“Nimrod” Review
Nimrod International Journal is a selection of literary works published
by the University of Tulsa. In this spring/summer issue, the journal
explores the emotional needs, drives, and desires that inhabit our
human psyche, with some of the more courageous works taking on the
darker side of human nature, whereas other lighter fiction speaks of the
evolving relationships between sons, fathers, daughters mothers, couples,
and the dead- pieced together in a fabric of need for connections in a
disconnected world.
Nimrod’s summer/fall 2010 calls itself “The Map of Yearning.” Editor
Francine Prose introduces this issue in her commentary “- It is, therefore,
not surprising that in story, poem, and essay, yearning even to the
degree of insatiable craving, is expressed in a multiplicity of designs.”
One of my favorite stories deals with families that don’t work, dys-
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