'I want a gun'
Contributor Melville Cooke writes: "I want a gun. Not just any gun, but a big one like those shotguns the security guards carry. I want something that not only kills, but sounds like it kills everything."

Teenie, weenie, beenie cotton seeds
Hartley Neita reminisces: "When I was a child a cotton tree grew about 100 yards from my home. It rose high in the sky and seemed to be a thousand feet tall."

Fidel Castro at 75

President Fidel Castro marked his 75th birthday last week, vowing that the Cuban people would not bow to the dictates of Washington.