FICTION

1968: A Fifty-Year Retrospective

Choices
by Bill Carpenter
a fictional microcosm of the Vietnam Era about a chance encounter between a student awaiting his draft notice and an Oklahoma farmer whose son was in the war
Take the Money and Run—1968
by Linda Zamora Lucero
a story of an Hispanic teen’s turn from joy to disillusionment as he works as a bit-player in a Woody Allen movie to earn money to buy conga drums

More Fiction

The Suburban Yogi: The Legend Begins
by Don Plansky
an amusing fantasy about how a senior citizen’s New Year’s resolution has unexpected and even ‘otherworldly’ consequences​
An Evolutionary Whimsy
by Charlene Anderson
a slightly-bent, vaguely-erotic evolutionary fantasy
‘Lighten Up’—A Documentary
by Rufus Browning
a fictionalized account of what it means to ‘lighten up’ in a far from light-hearted world​
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​The Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual arts by members of OLLI at SF State.
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