River Scene by Richard Stephens

FICTION

Andrew Geyer

• Miracle Night

Ellen Gilchrist

• Hopedale, A History in Four Small Stories

Dennis Vannatta

• Strict Accounting

William White

• Wedding Rings

Tom Williams

• The Artist's Responsibility to Society

DRAMA

C. L. Bledsoe

• Finite

GALLERY

Terry Wright

• Portraits & Poems (fractals)

The editors extend a special thanks to  Richard Stephens (watercolors) and Gary Simmons (pen-and-ink drawings and watercolors) for the beautiful artwork distributed throughout this issue.

Quest
by Gary Simmons

POETRY

Billy Abbott

• A Golden Spanish Charm

Amanda Auchter

• Weather Forecast
• Almost Hatched
• Angel
• Moon Landing

Steven Campbell

• On Leaving Oxford For the Second Time

Elea Carey

• This Morning  Between Four and Six

Wendy Carlisle

• Being Momentary
• Alexander Calder's Kitchen
• First Wife

Kirby Estes

• Evening City
• Off the Ozarks' Tawny Shore

Jennifer Horne

• Children Feeding Seagulls
• Petit Jean
• The Problem of a God Both Merciful and Omnipotent
• Snakehouse, Little Rock Zoo

Nicholas Morris

• A Night At the Race Track
• Mirror

Benjamin Myers

• Lime
• Elegy For Trains

Lisa Parks

• Enjoying the Scenery
• Odella's Revenge

Kyran Pittman

• Vertigo

Dusty Schmid

• Autumn Afternoon
• Kudzu

Temple Swann

• The Trouble of Saints