Issue #16

What If?

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor, Tracy Granzyk: Making It Count

Unreliable Witness | Monica Edwards
Break the Disease | Nancy Gilbert
What If We’re Beautifully Wired Just the Way We Are? | Sara E. Golden
The Hand of Nature | Sofia Mamakos
I Left My Wife on Valentine’s Day | Zoran Naumovski
Dear Driver | Kalani Padilla
Terminators | Angela Townsend
For the Clouds I Do Not Know | Hari Venkat

day-to-day operations, Lesson in 307, Vacancy Sign at Your Deluxe Resort | Joe Bisicchia
We Run Like Trees, James Lipton Interviews Mother Earth on “Inside the Actors Studio” | Victoria Mack
After His Second Nephrectomy, Child’s Pose | Shawn Aveningo-Sanders
Night of the Gorillas | Bart Edelman
Biopsy, Touch of mother, of father, Emma in Assisted Living | Joe Cottonwood

if, My Mother, Framed, The Caregiver Steps Outside | Kristin Camitta Zimet
My Daughter’s Celebratory Private Plane Ride | Frances Jo Grossman
First Week Home, I have found the words…,
Mount Hope Cemetery – Rochester, NY  | Lou Ventura
What to Expect, Leaves of Absence | Shakira Croce
If I Could Do It All Over Again | Judith Shapiro
Helping Me Into the Newness, Forthwith | Susan Shea