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FOCUS/midwest Founded in 1962 by Charles L. Klotzer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WINTER 2010-2011
NONFICTION 3
In FOCUS
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Killer reporting: J.J. Maloney traded his knife for a pen, swapping a life of crime for a career in journalism / C.D. Stelzer
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The footnotes: Crime turns to the Tommy gun for the first time in St. Louis / Daniel Waugh
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Snow: Beloit is frozen, but the Babies’ Milkman still delivers / Jacqueline Jackson
FICTION & POETRY 21
A scurrilous Christmas tale / Joe Hennessy
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A sappy Christmas tale / Joe Hennessy
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Devotion / Karen Walsh
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I Have Lived and Loved / Lola Lucas and Felicia Olin
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Snow poem / Alan Toltzis
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Winter in Chimayo / Conrad Knickerbocker
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In winter sleep / Dave Etter
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Before integration / Robert Joe Stout
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In many houses / Andrew Dillon
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All madness is lonely preparation for death / Franchot Ballinger
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