Opening Lines
David Tomaloff
Digging for Wasps Good Neighbor
50
Mary Stone Dockery
51
Jack Cooper
Good Help is Hard to Find In This New Universe
52 Michael Gillan Maxwell
Michael G. Smith
Now That There’s Water on the Moon I Am Ready to Make Contact Alien Fiesta
53 55
Behzad Dayeny
Paul Freidinger
Sharon Guerrero
57 58 60
Alien Interview
Steven Ramirez
66
Tea Room Tales
Jessica Homeyer
71
Man in a Wal-Mart Parking Lot Everything is Broken
John Brandi
Alex Pruteanu
The Peripatetic Man at the Library Buffalo Bill’s Defunct Script
80 David Parlato
Stephen Malin
87
Why Raindrops Don’t Kill Mosquitos Be Careful
Ann Hunkins
89
Salve Regina
James Claffey
Catherine Ferguson
Cigarettes in the Volkswagen Caroline LeBlanc
Santa Fe Literary Review
88
90
The Bitter Light of the Single Bulb
4
Michael Blaine
Charles Harper Webb
Fireworks All My Life
84 86
K.A. McGowen
What We Have Grown
77
Jennifer Phelps
91 93 94 96