Volume 5, Issue 1 :: March 2005

Featured Writing

Two Poems
Poetry by C.L. Bledsoe

Three Poems
Poetry by Dawn Bruce

Short Order
Poetry by J.M. Gilliard

The Kiss
Flash Fiction by Trish O’Brien-Edwards

Sandra and Charlie
Fiction by Margaret Andrews

The Wedding
Fiction by Mike Carlson

Two Ears
Creative Nonfiction by Heather Petrich

The Eames Chair Rant
Creative Nonfiction by Sandra Gail Teichmann

Editor’s Picks

In order to allow for the difference of opinions that sometimes occur
when editing as a collective, every issue each editor has the opportunity
to choose a piece that was left out of the main line-up as her/his “editor’s pick.”

Ana’s Pick * Dreams to Remember
Fiction by Denis Taillefer

Baker’s Pick * The Clay Man
Fiction by Laurie Seidler

Beaver’s Pick * i dream of pigeons
Poetry by Corey Ginsberg

Bellman’s Pick * Asis
Fiction by H.H. Morris

Macfisto’s Pick * Frogs
Flash Fiction by John A. Ward

Contest Winners

4th Annual Dead of Winter Writing Contest
Judged by Baker & Billiard
This Year’s Theme: “The house at the end of the road.”

First: Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
by Barbara Bergan

Second: Winter’s Ghost
by Robin Hillard

Third: The Broken Spoke
by Lindsay Vaughan

Columns

Best of the Boards
Did You Take These Women…
by Trena Taylor

The Snark Zone: Letters From The Editors
Oops, It Happened Again
by Theryn “Beaver” Fleming