The Brooklyn Rail
Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture
OCT 2006
Fiction
The Visitation
by Mary McGrailFiction
Some of my brothers and sisters were next door watching Saturday cartoons in front of the Farraghers’ color TV. I was upstairs listening to No Secrets on the ToonTyme Deluxe record player that Aunt Elaine and Uncle Steve sent for my eleventh birthday.
He Named His Son Rumsfeld
by David H. MontgomeryFiction
Jason Smith’s wife, Kimberly Smith, gave birth to their first child on November 12, 1999, and the couple named their son Jacob Michael Smith.
