Spring 2001
Elizabeth Kerr Boylan: Jupiter's Battered Moon	A troubled woman thinks about Princess Diana and the battered moons that surround Jupiter. She imagines she has her own set of protective moons that act as lighthouses to keep people from crashing into her. She believes the illumination from the crashed planets blinds people to her insanity.
Anthony Jude: The Bond of Artists	Rashad was a hip-hop artist, a hero to Lon. With his hero's murder, Lon's story begins. The people in Lon's life are unmasked, and Lon discovers what is real and what is imagined. He discovers The Bond of Artists.
Norman Lock: Èmigrès	The fictions are an emblem of estrangement. Together, they regard it from cultural, political, geographical, psychological and metaphysical points of view. The emigres are adrift in time as well as in space. The work is meant as a sometimes wry, sometimes melancholy, occasionally tragic mediation on the condition of otherness.
Jimmy Pack Jr.: Caught on Race	A young punk kid and his buddy ae out on the town, insulting everyone around them, looking for troubleand generally displaying attitude. A chance encounter with and older woman startles him in a surprising way.
Charles Rammelkamp: Double-Barreled Rejection	Cornell Frick has lost his wife and his job. He writes fiction and tries to get his stories published, and he is looking for another job. But he's not having much success. It's double-barreled rejection. When he's suddenly afraid his girlfriend is leaving him, he panics, only to learn the true nature of ultimate rejection.
Ed Robison: The Seagull	Northwest Gothic. Lewis has a portentous encounter with a seagull he accidentally hooked while surf fishing. That episode, plus the death of his twin brother, sends him into an emotional nosedive. A windsurfer, he heads out to sea to encounter the one true thing, the Green Flash, which occurs a moment befor the sun sets.
Efrem Sigel: A Cosy Spot in the Berkshires	What could be more idyllic than a vacation home in green, peaceful Berkshire County, only two and a half hours from New York? Holly and Chester Kahn stumble on the edeal house in this ideal spot after months of house-hunting. It's a spot so secluded that nothing bad could ever happen to anyone living there---or so they think. But reality turns nasty, and Holly unleashes all her reporting skills to find out the truth about "A Cozy Spot in the Berkshires."
Dennis Vanatta: Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair	"Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair" is a fictional mediation of Paul Cezanne's wife as she contemplates his familiar portrait of her. To her eye the portrait makes her look ghastly, scarred. What would cause her husband to paint her like this? This question inspired her to relive her life with her famous husband.
Edward Wahl: Guilty Secrets	An anonymous man relates stories about fatal accidents he has known about in his lifetime and wonders what happened to the people involved after each event. He knows a terrible secret about one of them, and its sequel.
Laura Weddle: Lily of the Valley	At the height of the depression, a farm hand approaches a young woman stringing beans on the front porch of a tenant house and asks if she would exchange work for food. She has little to give, but cannot turn him away. Then, while he chops wood, she goes into labor with her first child. His presence changes the desperate reality of her life on that hot summer day.