Volume 2, Issue 2
Fall 2005

Contents

Fiction

David Evanier
8
Rabbits in the Fields of Strangers
Mick Cochrane
48
Homeland Security
David Karraker
125
Imagine This

Poetry

Frederick Zydek
1
Portrait of a Poet Priest
Paula D. Anderson
3
The Gift
Simon Perchik 5
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B. Z. Niditch
6
Warsaw's Poet
Davide Trame
33
October
Jean-Mark Sense
35
Snake
Melody Lacina
37
Thanksgiving
Gaylord Brewer 38
Apologia for the Martini Glass
Gaylord Brewer
39
Apologia for a Martini in Winter
Janine DeBaise
40
Still Life in the Pine Woods
Melody Lacina
41
Morels
Fox DeMoisey 42
Old Love
Amanda Auchter
44
Dust
Christopher Travis
46
before the patterns dry
Richard Alan Bunch
51
The Message of Massage
Jan Ball 52 Photo at the Winery
Sharon Cumberland 53 Hera at the Piano
Doug Jones 54 Returning Pianos
Kelley Jean White 56 Art Lesson
Taj Jackson 58 The antic face
B. Z. Niditch 59 The Artist-in-Residence
Alan Britt 60 The Shaman Cannot Afford to Advertise on Cable TV
P. J. Taylor 62 A Mother's Plea to the Sketch Artist
Eric Paul Shaffer 64 A Blue Curve
Glen A. Mazis 66 Poor Boys, Rare Tortoises, and Existential Choices
Basil Cleveland 68 The Satellite
Kelley Jean White 69 The Line
Eric Paul Shaffer 70 The Floor God
Sandy Fontana 72 Tutee
Alan Britt 107 Bicentennial Minute
RickBursky 108 The History of Traitors
Sandy Fontana 110 The Women Wore Bloomers
Carol Hamilton 112 Kent State
Doug Jones 114 Africa Excess
E. G. Burrows 116 Treasure
Kurt Brown 117 Melville at the Custom House
Carol Hamilton 119 Umbra
Harvey Steinberg 120 Calypso Immortal
Douglas W. Geyer 121 Coming to the Altar
Vivian Malloy 112 The Rape of Persephone
Christopher Travis 124 ani
Jan Ball 142 Massage
Mark Smith 143 The Goldfish
Jan Ball 144 windsurfer
Julie Dunlop 145 Rings in the River
Joanne Lowery 146 Obese Woman Cut in the Water
Julie Dunlop 148 Crypt
Amanda Auchter 149 Baffle the Dark
Lisa Alexander Baron 150 solarium
Rhonda C. Poynter 152 funeral
Tracy Ahrens 154 nature will heal
Frederick Zydek 156 Letter to Blaski About What Goes On Between the Lines

Now Hear This: Stories on Stage

Introduction
74
2004 Contest Winners
L. C. Fiore 75
Bluster and Balderdash
Dana Wood
88
The Moving Tree
J. Adam Oaks
99
Connected That Way