WHEN ROWING DOWN THE NILE MAKE SURE TO TAKE YOUR GOOD FRIEND MARIE ALONG by Jenois Harris
"As we lazily rowed along, we happened upon this crocodile who called himself Henri."
THE VANQUISHED by David Putnam
“From the look on your ugly mug, I think there might be a problem. Spill it, Bruno.”
HALLOWEEN IN SQUIRREL TOWN by Ashley Sant
"On every squirrel porch, by every squirrel door
Sits a great pumpkin with a hollowed out core."
SOMETIMES by Thad Buckley
"A child, no match for a speeding car.
Death doesn’t care."
THE FENCE by George Gurney
"... the fence line ran back over the undulating hills until it disappeared from view in the waving grass."
HOME BANNER CAFE by Eve Gaal
"Maybe she’d lose a few pounds and meet an honest man who didn’t cheat with skinny floozies."
WHERE SPIRITS BREATHE by Donna Fitzgerald
"Keep in mind bowls of blueberries,
mornings of transition—"
DEAD MAN WALKING by Richard Harry
"You abandoned the car and left her there,
The baby died so they gave you the chair."
TIME PONDERINGS by Lynette Tucker
"What would I do with a time machine?"
THE CREEK/THE LAKE by Howard Feigenbaum
"In the summers of my youth, the creek was the place I preferred."
COVER ART by Vicki Allen-Hitt
Cover art: Pond at Huntington by Vicki Allen-Hitt
TOMMY by Ellyn Wolfe
"I can do this. I have just enough time to reach in and grab him.