Behind our Eyes: a second look
Behind Our Eyes: A Second Look
Edited by Kate Chamberlin
ISBN 978-1490304472
These writers didn’t have a choice about disabilities in their lives, but each certainly made choices about handling their daily challenges. Through their stories, poems, and essays, these writers have chosen to live life to its fullest.
Behind Our Eyes, Inc, a 501C-3 nonprofit organization, offers accessible opportunities for writers with disabilities to share and discuss their work with fellow members, guest authors, and professionals in the publishing field via their e-mail list and teleconferences. Through positive critiques and suggestions, the members support and assist each other in their on-going efforts to express themselves in the written word. Braille displays, screen-reading software, and other adaptive technologies enhance the skills for many of these writers.
This second anthology showcases the literary endeavors of this unique collection of writers. Their first anthology, Behind Our Eyes, was published in 2007 and the on-line magazine, Magnets and Ladders, made its debut in 2011. The pieces in Behind Our Eyes: A Second Look, are a rich blend of new submissions to this anthology, as well as reprints from the online magazine. The vivid tapestry of life these writers weave with their stories, poems, and essays demonstrates what a varied and diverse group they are, yet showcases their similarities to each other and to the world at large. You may share your thoughts with these authors and others at www.BehindOurEyes.org and www.MagnetsandLadders.org.
The organization of this book enables you to read it from cover to cover, flip to a theme, pick your favorite author, or just read one selection each day. Whatever your reading preference is, it’s worth taking a second look.
–BOE Anthology Committee
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Behind Our Eyes: A Second Look
Table of Contents
I. ECHOES OF CHANGE
Banging The Drum Loudly, Memoir
By Peter Altschul…pg#
The Willows Weep, memoir
By Myrna D. Badgerow…
Now and Then, Sonnet
By Myrna D. Badgerow…
The Art of Dying, memoir
By Bonnie Blose…
A Long Way from Home, memoir
By Phyllis Staton Campbell…
Wonders of Womanhood, Free Verse
By Marsha Gaide…
The Little Window, memoir
By Tara Arlene Innmon…
The Afternoon I Caused My Own Abduction, Memoir
By Barbara Mattson…
Stars In My Eyes, Free Verse
By Valerie Moreno…
A Different Kind of Healing, Memoir
By DeAnna Quietwater Noriega…
Grandma, Memoir
By Michael Price…
Best Friends, Memoir
By Rebecca Shields…
Strength Through Stitches, Memoir
by Rebecca Shields
A Noteworthy Friendship, Memoir
By Rhonda T. Spear
Mother And Child Reunion, memoir
By Terri Winaught…
II. SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS
Nobody Ever Asks Me about my Mother, memoir
By Bonnie Blose…
The Empty Nest Halloween, memoir
By Kate Chamberlin…
Buddies and Pals Nursery School, Memoir
By Kate Chamberlin…
Rubik’s Cube, Memoir
By Caitlin Hernandez…
A Journey of a Thousand Miles, Memoir
By Shawn Jacobson…
A Simple Pleasure, fiction
By Bobbi LaChance…
Reflections, fiction
By Bobbi LaChance…
Eclipse – Hands folded in Prayer, Free Verse
By Lynda Lambert…
Family Feast, memoir
By Deon Lyons…
The Other Side of the Glass Wall, memoir
By Deon Lyons…
Egg Cream, Please, memoir
By Valerie Moreno…
Marshmallow Peeps, memoir
By DeAnna Quietwater Noriega…
The Box on the Porch, memoir
By Ed Potter…
YOM KIPPUR, Cinquain
By William Preston…
Stealing Yeses, Free Verse
By Nancy Scott…
Heaven on Earth, Free Verse
By Sherry Taylor…
Christmas Magic, Fiction
By Sherry Taylor…
Birds Of Noël, memoir
Judith E Vido…
III. IS IT POSSIBLE?
Sweet Music, Fiction
By Myrna Badgerow…
The Nicest Little Friend, fiction
By Nicole Bissett…
Terms and Conditions, fiction
By Manny Colver…
Probabilities, fiction
By Manny Colver…
A Dotty Encounter, Fiction
By Ellen Fritz…
The Reality of Rejection, fiction
By Shawn Jacobson…
Audioscape, flash fiction
By Nancy Lynn…
Hold Me Down, Sci-fiction
By Traci MacDonald…
Would you?, Non-fiction
By Christine Malec…
I Call on the Spirit of John Milton, Free Verse
By Ria Meade…
New Life, fiction
By Marilyn Brandt Smith…
Chandler’s Curse, fiction
By John Wesley Smith…
‘This Ball is Outta Here!’ Fiction
By Lillian Way…
The Adventures of Mckaitma and Jacob, Fiction
By Tyler Zahnke…
IV. FUR AND FEATHERS
Kicked by a Camel, Kissed by Two Dolphins, Memoir
By Peter Altschul…
My Little Neutrino, nonfiction
By Bruce Atchison…
One May Morning, Poetry
By Lauren R. Casey…
Witnesses, fiction
By Ellen Fritz…
Border Patrol, Fiction
By Donna Grahmann…
Dependable Pal: A Pony’s Tale, Fiction
By Donna Grahmann…
From The Old Crow’s Nest, fiction
By Ernest A. Jones…
My Kitchen Guests,Couplets
By Bobbi LaChance…
It’s Not the Cat That Has Nine Lives, Pantoum
By Mary-Jo Lord…
Blind Cat’s Bluff, non-fiction
By Valerie Moreno…
Sharing Your Gifts, fiction
By DeAnna Quietwater Noriega…
Loving Amber Eyes, Free Verse
By DeAnna Quietwater Noriega…
Irreproducible, memoir
By Aly Parsons…
Her Spirit Guide, non-fiction
By Eve Sanchez…
Occupying Aging: Delights, Disabilities and Daily Life
By Katherine Schneider…
A Precious Memory, Memoir
By Frances Strong…
Omen from My Totem, Free Verse
By Leonard Tuchyner…
Maddie’s Love of Music, Memoir
By Judith E. Vido
V. POTPOURRI OF POETRY
Longing, Free Verse
By Norma Boge…
Wedding Vows, Free Verse
By Jimmy Burns…
Come, Free Verse
By Elisa Busch…
Cat and Dog, Nonet
By Kate Chamberlin…
Spring/Winter, Acrostic
By Elizabeth Fiorite…
Inevitable Circle, Free Verse
By Ellen Fritz…
C.P., Couplets
By Heather Herschap…
Safe Harbors, Rhyming Quatrain
By Gottlieb, Grahmann, Leschak, Strange…
More Than Books, Free Verse
By Robert Kingett…
For My Mother at Eighty, Villanelle
By Lynda J. Lambert…
How to Treat My Heart At High Tide, Free Verse
By Mary-Jo Lord…
Match, Free Verse
By Mary-Jo Lord…
In Dreams, Cinquain
By Nancy Lynn…
Hyacinths of the Midwest, Acrostic
By Alice Jane-Marie Massa…
The Gift, Free Verse
By Wendy Phillips…
Cochlear Implant, Free Verse
By William Preston…
Writing About Eating In Amherst, Couplets
By William Preston…
Oxygen, Free Verse
By Sally Rosenthal…
While Walking Home, Free Verse
By Abbie Johnson Taylor…
Awaiting The Return Of The Better Half, Free Verse
By Abbie Johnson Taylor…
Blind? Deaf?, Free Versey
By Leonard Tuchyner…
VI. WHOSE VISION?
A Prickly Tree, memoir
By Robert Feinstein…
Just To Know, Free Verse
By Caitlin Hernandez…
What I See, memoir
By David Kingsbury…
Wind’s Door, Free Verse
By Ria Meade
Trouble’s in Town, memoir
By Ed Potter…
Burdocks, Memoir
By Janet Schmidt
Hearing the Sunrise, Free Verse
By Nancy Scot
The Light Beyond The Dark, Non-fiction
by Rhonda T. Spear…
Triathlon, Memoir
By Nancy Stevens…
Reading Blind, Free Verse
By Cheryl Wade…
VII. TOO CLOSE TO THE EDGE
Snapshots of Life After Abuse, memoir
By Nicole Bissett.…
Ruby’s Gift of Prayer, Fiction
By Elisa Busch…
Trust, Memoir
By Robert Feinstein…
One Case from the Files, Creative Non-Fiction
By Elizabeth Fiorite…
Special Class: a Journey in Mainstreaming, Memoir
By Donna W. Hill…
A Night At The Totem Bowl, Memoir
By Shawn Jacobson…
Three Weeks to Live, memoir
By Ernest A. Jones…
Torn By Peace, Memoir
By Traci McDonald…
Unbroken, Free Verse
By Traci McDonald…
Darkness, Memoir
By Fred Nickl…
Mysterious Encounter, Memoir
By Fred Nickl…
The One I Love, Free Verse
By Michelle Sipe…
Narrow Escape, memoir
By Marilyn Brandt Smith…
When a New Day Dawns, memoir
By Terri Winaught…
VIII Contributors’ biographies