Four Ties Lit Review Summer 2013 The Work Issue

By FourTiesLitReview

Four Ties Lit Review is a literary magazine dedicated to the idea that intelligent and entertaining artistic communication is a necessity of modern society. We seek to publish the best pieces that are thought provoking and appeal to the widest audience.

Four Ties Lit Review Summer 2013 “The Work Issue” is a collection of the best works submitted to the magazine for its Summer 2013 issue, revolving around the idea of “Work” in its many forms. Work is a unifying theme common to everyone from eight year olds “working” on their multiplication tables to retirees looking to bring meaning to a lifetime of dedication to a single pursuit.

Nearly 200 individuals submitted over 450 works of Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction and Photographic Art. Only the best 25 pieces were chosen for this edition, including work from poet Paul Sacksteder, authors Erin F Robinson, and Nicki Blackwell as well as art from Greg Glau were published.

• Language: English
• Publisher: FourTiesLitReview
• Release date: Jul 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301084906

Book preview

Four Ties Lit Review Issue 2 Volume 1

Summer 2013

Do You See What I See by Greg Glau

Issue 2 Volume 1 features photography by Greg Glau and Toni Marksoukos, fiction from Erin F Robinson and Jon Steinhagen, non-fiction from Nicki Blackwell and Kristine McRae, the poetry of Sarah Brown Weitzman, Benjamin Norris, Simon Perchik and much more.

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Four Ties Lit Review Issue 2 Volume 1

The Work Issue

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Letter from the Editor

In this our second issue and third volume of Four Ties Lit Review, I believe we’ve achieved a serious accomplishment. The growth of the magazine and the additional number of submissions has allowed us to be more selective than in previous volumes. The acceptance rate for this issue was approximately five percent of the pieces submitted to the magazine. Although it made their work harder, this has allowed the editors to choose only the cream of the crop for publication. It was an intentional decision to remain approximately the same size magazine (more non-fiction then last year, but less poetry) despite the increased number of submissions, thus theoretically improving the quality of the magazine. I am proud to be associated with this publication.

We look forward to continued growth and success and I have begun to set plans in motion that will allow for both. As well as securing permanent additional assistance to run the magazine, we plan to incorporate and make FTLR a non-profit organization in the coming years. We hope you will join us in this journey. As always, we ask your assistance in spreading the word about FTLR.

I would like to thank my editors: Robert Keegan, Ben McClendon, Lauren Milligan, and Molly Wilson; as well as our readers Laurie Wolpert, Khara House, and Lauren Sully Sullivan. Without their help this issue would not have been possible. As my time in Flagstaff Arizona is coming to an end I would like to acknowledge to them that I know we have built friendships that will outlast the years to come.

Thank you and happy reading,

Matthew W Larrimore

Editor / Founder

Four Ties Lit Review

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Table of Contents

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Non-Fiction

Announcing Your Place by Kristine McRae

Market Days in Oaxaca by Nina Vincent

Teaching Chronicles by Nicki Blackwell

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Fiction

Dreams in Steno by Erin F. Robinson

Gwen and Kitten’s Ground Truths by Kimberly Cawthon

Division of New Hope by John Steinhanen

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Poetry

Riversong by Jenny Root

The Commute by Benjamin Norris

untitled by Simon Perchik

Lovers in a Cellar by Kevin Oberlin

State of Motion by Paul Sacksteder

Apprenticeship by Sandy Hiortdahl

Streetlamps as Milemarkers by Clair Bowman

Fast Food by Jonathan Holland

a previous version of this poem was published in Twizted Tungz magazine

A Hard Day Teaching  by Patrick Frank

previously published Open Salon.com blog

Bending by Sherilyn Lee

How to Survive on Ketchup and Water by Danielle Hunt

With Pantyhose by April Salzano

ANGEL # 2,473, N SERIES by Sarah Brown Weitzman

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Art Gallery

Do You See What I See by Greg Glau

New Your City Restraunt 2012 by Ira Joel Haber

Low Tide Oyster Harvest by Pete Madzelan

Powered Sky by Lean Givens

Snake Work by Susana H Case

Calvert and Preston by Toni Martsoukos

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About the Authors

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About the Editors

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Snake Work by Susana Case

Non-Fiction

Announcing Your Place

By Kristine McRae

Market Days in Oaxaca

By Nina Vincent

Teaching Chronicles

By Nicki Blackwell

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Announcing Your Place

By Kristine McRae

It’s almost Valentine’s Day again. A sharp wind travels through town from the north and out across the frozen ocean; without the wind chill, it’s twenty below. I could drive the almost mile to the halfway house, but it would take longer to scrape the frost from the windshield and warm up the car than it will to walk from my office at the east end of town. Besides, the cold and wind clears my head in a way that an hour of sitting meditation can’t touch. I gather my lesson papers and pull on the layers of winter gear. Outside it’s still dark. In early February, in Nome, Alaska, the sun comes over the ocean to the south at around 10:30 — six more minutes of daylight than yesterday.

Seaside is the name of our Community Corrections Center, situated unfortunately, if not ironically, between two bars on Front Street. I stop to look at the expanse of ice. The lean, lone silhouette of a driftwood trunk juts up from the jumble of mammoth boulders that line town and act as a protector from the harsh October storms. It’s stuck in the rocks and bends reluctantly in the wind, struggling to maintain its stature against the agitated air. That’s how I feel today, like that driftwood. A man surprises me as he stumbles out of the Anchor Saloon and I jump to avoid his path. He shoots me a toothy brown smile right before he bends in half and vomits on the snowy sidewalk. The barf will freeze in minutes, and sometime this afternoon the bartender will scrape it into the street with a garden hoe. As I tug on the heavy door, a haze of heat blended with the smell of institutional breakfast billows out and mingles into the morning.

I’m here to teach reading and writing to the Seaside residents who