Email Author Jeannette Batz

2003 Stories by Jeannette Batz

• Hard Case

  published April 16, 2003

  Marie Clark walks into the consultation room chuckling. A little boy just came by to see whether her ten-year-old son was at work with her. The... More >>

• Wait Elephant

  published March 26, 2003

  When David Balding unfurls the striped tent of his Circus Flora this June, fog will swirl around star-crossed lovers as they're drawn into a world... More >>

• Class War

  published February 26, 2003

  "So Maplewood-Richmond Heights' idea of preparing students to take final exams is to throw a giant pajama party," the professor mutters. He's back... More >>

• A Matter of Honor

  published February 26, 2003

  The e-mails call them pussies and cowards, say they probably never fought anybody.Woody Powell, executive director of Veterans for Peace, sips... More >>

• Who's Afraid of Anthony Shahid?

  published February 19, 2003

  Anthony Shahid strode through the Barnes-Jewish Hospital lobby, his steps as hard and sure as the marble floor. Maneuvering around the moving... More >>

• From Bulgaria With Love

  published January 22, 2003

  Nikolay Ivanov Nedeltchev thought that the Cold War had thawed. A retired Bulgarian major, he was now a U.S. citizen living in South St. Louis,... More >>

• Kingdom Comes

  published January 1, 2003

  That's the surprise. I'm a girl. But now I'm a boy too and I can do anything and anything and anything. -- Ernest Hemingway, The... More >>