March 2007 (Third E-zine Issue) Click on “title links” to open each item.
Title	Author
Stories
Tourist	Lenore Carroll
Riding Shotgun	Warren Bull
Fly by Night	Annette Rasmussen
Riding With the Angel Of Death	Warren Bull
Poetry
Three Poems	Richard Fein
Picture Poem	Beverly Sherwood
Anti-War Trilogy	Christina Pacosz

Brief Notes
 March 2007

Downgo Sun is setting all over the map in this issue.  Lenore Carroll’s “Tourist” transports to exotic Xalapa in a tale of myth, passion and imagination.  Christina Pacosz’s poetry explores a land being less exotic and painfully familiar to Americans in her “Anti-War Trilogy.”  We visit the streets of Brooklyn in Richard Fein’s poems “Living Cenotaph,” “Great Escape” and “Honor Thy Mother.”  Beverly Sherwood brings us views of both sides of the continent in “Picture Poem.”  Warren Bull takes us on two journeys as we ride with the Angel of Death and then ride shotgun with a modern day outlaw and his young accomplice.  Finally, Annette Rasmussen brings us along on  a less somber note with her Bruno Shulz- and Kafka-esque flight of fancy in “Fly by Night.”  Enjoy the trip.

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Contributors Notes

Warren Bull is the author of the novel, Abraham Lincoln for the Defense (PublishAmerica, 2003); the short story, “Beecher’s Bibles,” in the anthology, Manhattan Mysteries (KS Publishing, 2005); and the non-fiction article, “Kansas City Trivia,” in Kansas City Voices (November, 2005).

Lenore Carroll is an author with a Western flair.  Her books include Annie Chambers, Abduction from Fort Union, Love with a Warm Cowboy, The Heart Remembers and her most recent novel Uncertain Pilgrims.

Richard Fein was a finalist in the 2004 Center for Books Arts Chapbook Competition.  He has been published in many web and print journals, such as Oregon East Southern Humanities Review.  Touchstone, Windsor Review, Maverick, Parnassus Literary Review, Small Pond, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, Exquisite Corpse and many others.  He also has an interest in digital photography and has published many of his photos.  Samples of Richard’s photography can be found on http://www.pbase.com/bardofbyte photo album.

Christina Pacosz has been writing most of her life and she has published several books of poetry, the most recent, Greatest Hits, 1975-2001, Pudding House, 2002.  She teaches urban youth in Kansas City, Missouri.

Annette Rasmussen a.k.a. Annie Razz has had poems and stories published in the Kansas City Star, Caring Concepts, Holiday House, and the Chiron Review.  Most recently, her book, Fantastical Tales for The Heroine’s Quest was just published by PublishAmerica.  Ms. Rasmussen lives in the Historic Northeast section of Kansas City, Missouri, across from a forest in a big, old house with her daughter, husband, a cat, a bird, and a very small Chihuahua.

For 15 years, Beverly Sherwood has written publicity for churches of her denomination.  The readership is about 5,000.  “That experience has helped me say a lot with few words.  I have had articles published in The Best Times, a Johnson County, Kansas newspaper for people over 50 years old.  I enjoyed poetry in grade school, but had not written any poem until it was an assignment in a class I took in the spring.”