Austin Downtown
Arts Magazine

December 1996
Volume 2 Number 10

Chastity Blue poetry by Manuel Gonzalez

Epilogue (after c.a.f.) poetry by Ken Hunt

Garden Hose poetry by Adolfo Chavez III

Growing Pains by Susanne Gross
I've lived a life full of gifts and fortune, but I no longer feel the same carefree joy that allowed me to live freely without always thinking and considering.

No Promises fiction by K. Marie Black

Omar's Story fiction by Hope Vanderberg

Someone in Graceland Loves Me by Jenna Colley
There's something about West Texas that I always hated as a kid. Maybe it was all the creepy billboards pushing Jesus to passersby or the perverted truckers glaring into the back seat at me and my brother. Or maybe it was the fact that my family was always driving somewhere, but never staying.

Three Columns poetry by Adolfo Chavez III

Two Untitled Poems poetry by Laura Jones

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
Thank you for once again picking up our little magazine. This is the one time each year that our staff writers and some of our friends get to relax and write about whatever they want.

Untitled poetry by Vanessa Alu

Verities by Sandra Beckmeier
"Today I'm going to start my new life." This is a familiar phrase I adopted from someone I once considered wiser than me.

Windows by Christopher Hess