VOICE OVER by Rod Clark............................................................... 5

ROSEBUZZZ................................................................................12

BLIZZARD by R. Virgil Ellis............................................................ 121

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.............................................................. 122

JEWELS ON THE BEACH by Rod Clark............................................. 127

GO FIGURE by P. S. Mueller........................................................... 131

SLIPPING LIGHT

THE LOST COUNTRY by Luminita Mihai Cioaba...................................15

TAXES by Frances McFarland Horne....................................................19

DIVORCE by Alison Touster-Reed.......................................................25

SEVEN PENNIES FOR YEMAYA by Teresa Dovalpage...............................26

BALER by Christine Gelineau.............................................................33

SCENE WITH FIGURE by Amy Spade..................................................34

WOOD SMOKE

THE TRIVIAL PURSUITS TRANSPORTER by Ray Bradbury......................36

CAUSE AND EFFECT by Ruth Stone...................................................41

SURRENDER & PEACE by Judith Azrael..............................................42

BIRDBATH CATCH FIRE

COLLATERAL DAMAGE by Kristine Kathryn Rusch...............................44

SILVER PAPER by Bruce Holland Rogers..............................................55

RUTH WRIGHT by Alaura Wilfert......................................................58

THE DREAMS OF CLAIRE HARDING by J.T. Ledbetter..........................66

PINK KNITTED SCARF

GOING TO THE RITZ by Lorene Hoover..............................................72

THE PIED PIPER OF DAMASCUS by Lisa Ohlen Harris...........................75

BLUE CHRISTMAS, 2004 by William Heyen..........................................80

ROMANCE by William Locke Hauser..................................................81

EAGLE SIDE UP

A PANTHER IN THE ATTIC By Joseph Bruchac......................................88

EVERGREEN by Jessica E. Terson.......................................................95

COMPLETION by Dan Stryk.............................................................96

DOWN ON THE FLOODSANDS by Dru Philippou.................................97

SHAKEDOWN

HIGH HOPES by Isabelle Maynard......................................................99

FLIMFLAM by Willa Schmidt........................................................... 109

SHAKEDOWN PATRICK by Nathan Price.......................................... 116

MONDAY, MONDAY by Anne Burgess............................................... 118