Home West Bank East Bank Fiction Articles Lagniappe Submissions Mast	Winter 2000 Issue   Welcome to the second issue of La Petite Zine.      We want to entertain, to inspire, and tickle your fancy, if you know what we mean, and we bet you do!. We all have a poem inside, we all have enough stories to write a book. These authors will stir your memory and shake-down your creativity.      Come in, sit down, share a big cup of our best house blend.              - The Editor Fortes fortuna juvat!	Issue 1 LPZ "Yes; no doubt the value of men lay only in what they had transformed."   Malraux.
Poets: Phillip H. Antom Julie Damerell Michael Graber Penelope Greenwell Tiff Holland Noname Jerry H. Jenkins Alexander Pepple Kenneth Pobo James M. Rawley Theresa White "We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams...we are the movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems. " Arthur O'Shaughnessy	APERITIF Our writers are passionate. With the magic they make, watch them transforming ideas into transcendent results. Wrestling words into remarkable shapes the WEST BANK poets offer vers libre to challenge and inspire the most jaded reader, to gag "the serpent mouth of death" and still be wary of"the parts of the food chain that retaliate..." Tanka, sijo, ghazal and haibun show the skill of the EAST BANK poets and demonstrate their ability to imbue few words with much meaning. These poems are like a fine wine. Roll them on your tongue, savor their beauty. They have an excellent bouquet. Vignettes of fiction from short, short stories to the breadth of desert landscape wait to bring you pleasure.  & From Alex Keegan's Tomatoes, Flamingos, Lemmings, and Other Interesting Facts five superb writers offer you a sideways look into their stangest visions. FICTION will be with us as long as we have memories. ! In our ARTICLE section investigate the beautiful and the banal, from poets on the web to men being men on television. "A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out." Virginia Woolf	Writers: Vida Evelyn Jimmy Gleacher Wes Hyde Alex Keegan John Pelligrino Sylvia Petter Michael Peverett 'The one way of tolerating exis- tence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.'  Gustave Flaubert