Robert Bingham 29 The Crossing Guard

Dana Goodyear 39 Four Poems

David Bunn 43 Book Worms

Joe Andoe 59 Four Stories

Deborah Shapiro 63 Happens All the Time

Nathaniel Bellows 69 Three Poems

Thomas Cannon 75 Dubrovnik

Ryan Kenealy 89 Resuscitation of the Shih Tzu

Evan Harris 107 Hope From the Third Person

Matthew Brannon 119 The Unread Unreadable…

Kevin Young 121 Four Poems

Lohren Green 129 From the Poetical Dictionary

Erich Eisenegger 133 A Ticket for Kat

Nina Katchadourian 143 From the Sorted Books Project

Ed Pavlic 155 From Arachnida Speak

Margaret Levine 159 Two Poems

Lewis Robinson 161 The Diver

Rafael Fernández de Villa-Urrita 177 The First Visit to the Louvre

Peter Gray 183 Alley

Bruce Jay Friedman 185 Lost

Marilyn A. Johnson 191 Her Deflowering

Tim Wilson 193 Private Beach Bitches

Bryan Dietrich 201 This Island Earth

Matthew Higgs 203 Three Parts

Michael Sledge 211 The Birdlady of Houston

Nick Tosches 223 Proust and the Rat

Rick Rofihe 227 Two Letters