This Issue

March/April 2010

Sometimes we're barreling along and bam! smash into a brick wall. Oh goody, another one of life's little obstacles. It could be you're called away from a routine day, leaving a geometry assignment half done. You find yourself thrust into a situation where you have to decide whether to obey an authority figure or follow your own moral compass. It's a day when everything changes. You've reach a fork in the road, and what you do or say will determine the course of your life--or someone else's.

That's what happens to the boy in Shulamith Levey Oppenheim's "The Suit" and to naturalist John Muir in an excerpt from "The Stickeen River." It's what worries sixteen-year-old Adam in Diana C. Conway's "No Smoke in the Chimney" and leads poet Fredrick Zydek to profound thoughts in "The Missing Moment."

When you've finished reading the selections below, click on www.cicadamag.com/submitwork and answer the Call for Creative Endeavors. Then send us your poems, photographs, or original artwork on the theme The Fork in the Road … the moments that make or break us.

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