The Blue Mountain Review Issue 9

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BLUE MOUNTAIN Review

The Death of Baseball

Martin Turner was the orneriest neighbor of my childhood and it was years before I paid him back for all the misery he caused with his cranked-up ugliness. . . calling the cops every time we played baseball in the street.

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If we were too loud with our water balloon fights or kick the can, a cop car would roll slowly down the street like a bull shark sniffing the pavement for what wasn’t right.

NPR Station Manager Richard Winham AUTHOR

Shawn, my best friend and juvie-bound, was seventeen. I fell right in behind him, father-less, and like a lemming, just looking for any cliff to jump off. Over the bass-driven beats above the loblolly trees bending in the breeze, a Deep Purple haze thumping from Shawn’s speakers as I drifted away from any major league dreams. . . Martin Turner called the cops for the third time in one day.

Interviews with

Dinty Moore

SOUTHERN FRONTMEN TMEN Adam McIntyre of The Pinx

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James Templeton of

James + the Wild Spirit Introducing

local artist

Laura McCullough

poetry from William

Walsh Annmarie Lockhart

Faces of Faith conversation with

Clifford Brooks

*All rights within remain with the respective Artists*


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