Volume 8, Issue 1 :: March 2008
Featured Writing
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Flash Fiction by Charles D. Phillips
Final Wish
Flash Fiction by Wayne Scheer
Deadwood
Flash Fiction by Janice D. Soderling
The Secret of Despair
Fiction by Karen Carlson
Murder, Suicide, and a Playgroup
Fiction by Jessica Smartt Gullion
Cathedrals
Creative Nonfiction by Arwen Dewey
Staggering in the Headlights
Creative Nonfiction by Erin M. Pushman
Editor’s Picks
Ana’s Pick * Afternoon Performance
Fiction by Howard Waldman
Baker’s Pick * Miss Rhonda Knows Hair
Fiction by Sarah Yost
Boots’s Pick * Waiting Room
Flash Fiction by Meg Pokrass
Contest Winners
Dead of Winter Writing Contest
Judged by Baker, Billiard & The Bellman
Theme: Urban Legend
Word Limit: 3,500 words
First: King of Bull
by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
Second: Vespers
by Robert T. Knight
Third (tie): Movement of Skin
by Fay Bouman
&
The Purchased Bride
by Tara McDaniel
Columns
Best of the Boards
Swing Shift
by Steve Krause
The Snark Zone: Letters From The Editors
Got to Get You into My Life
by Stephanie “Baker” Lenz