Email Author Lisa Gray

1997 Stories by Lisa Gray

• "Boom Boom" Goes Bust

  published December 11, 1997

  "I got no money, judge," Alvin "Boom Boom" Jackson plaintively told a bankruptcy trustee at Houston's federal courthouse. A few minutes later,... More >>

• After the Crash

  published October 23, 1997

  Joe Lychner heard the call-waiting beep and clicked over. It was his mother-in-law: Did Pam and the girls get on the plane? Yeah, said Joe.... More >>

• Computer Terror

  published July 31, 1997

  Most of us already fear our computers. Bad things happen to good data all the time: Disk errors! Unreadable files! Crashed servers! You may... More >>

• Press Picks

  published July 3, 1997

  thursday july 3 Foot care on wheels Corns? Calluses? Athlete's foot? Whatever your podiatric woe, the footcare evangelists of Dr.... More >>

• Press Picks

  published June 26, 1997

  thursday june 26 National HIV Testing Day Today and tomorrow, Planned Parenthood offers free AIDS tests and counseling. 8:30 a.m.-6... More >>

• The Boom Boom Method

  published April 24, 1997

  Months after the spanking, Erik Vidor's bruised butt made the evening news on six different stations. Some showed a whole wall of bruise photos,... More >>

• Reason to Live

  published March 6, 1997

  In 1993, Joni Rodgers started writing a novel. Late at night, while her kids were in bed, she pecked at her keyboard, creating Tulsa Bitters, a... More >>

• An Intimate Moment with Mary

  published January 30, 1997

  "Really, there's not that much sex at all," says Mary Gaitskill of the stories in her new collection, Because They Wanted To. At first... More >>

• Ashley Yount Can't Hear You

  published January 16, 1997

  Julie Yount lugged clean laundry into her son's room, where her daughter, ten-month-old Ashley, was playing. Ashley didn't turn around, but Julie... More >>