"The Dentist" by Stephen Pain.


"Into Deeper Sand" by Stuart Harris
"Undermusic" by Greggory Moore
"Inperpetuity" by Lila Guzmán
"Liaison" by Gail Hosking Gilberg

"Apes" by Rusty Fischer
"The Boy in Baseball" by Liam Rector
"Duck Soup" by Patty Mooney
"Paris Autumn" by Anjana Basu
"The Remarkable Objectivity of ..." by Liam Rector
"When Down by Long Boy's Lane" by Liam Rector
"You Take" by Anjana Basu

"Dad"  Samantha Craggs looks back on a childhood dominated by her alcoholic father.

"The Bennington Diaries"  Held over by popular demand. James Hall reported to us daily from the MFA program in Creative Writing at Bennington College. Now's your chance to find out what really goes on in Vermont.

"Magic From Scratch for Improvised Women"  Stefene Russell on being single in the land of brides.

"Violence: The American Way "  Jeremy Worsham muses over our national past-times.

"Father's Day - Almost"  Daryl Lease speaks with his unborn daughter in a language only they can understand.

Book Reviews of:
Edisto and Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell, as well as the Pulitzer Prize-winning The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic.

Music Reviews of:
Simply Red's Blue,
Ben Harper's Fight for Your Mind,
Davīd Garza's This Euphoria,
the motion picture soundtrack from The Horse Whisperer,
and all the Van Morrison you can swallow.

Video Reviews of:
L.A. Confidential, Alien Ressurection, As Good As It Gets, and Last Year At Marienbad.

Zine Reviews of:
Spokenwar, Mississippi Review, and Maxi.