WINTER ISSUE CONTENTS
   
COLUMNS AND SPECIAL FEATURES
   
  Coffee Break ...............................1
  Over the Transom ...........................2
  Market News ................................3
  Loring's Corner ............................8
  Generally Speaking ........................10
  Scary Scrawlings ..........................12
  Pen-Pal Critiques .........................28
      
NONFICTION
    
  A Few Good Books ..........................16
    
  Writing Prompts ...........................26
    
  Eight Great Factors of Literary Success  
    
by Jack London .........................29
      
FICTION
  
  Finalist, 2008 Fiction Contest
  The Guild 

    by Loring Emery .........................13
  
  Finalist, 2008 Fiction Contest
  Do Not Disturb

    by Donald H. Sullivan ...................17
  
  The Almost-End Day   
    by Louise Jaffe-Gerber ..................21
  
  In the Beginning  
    by Ed Krizek ............................24
  
  Primal Regression in a Cave of Consumerism  
    by Mel Bosworth .........................27
 
POETRY
    
  The Cutting Edge
    by Harding Stedler .......................5
  
  Abandoned Children 
    by Harding Stedler .......................5
  
  A Mental Picture
   
by Ashutosh Ghildiyal ....................5
  
  Blink
   
by C.P. Stewart ..........................5
  
  Untried Verse
   
by Ashutosh Ghildiyal ....................6
  
  Gloves that Bore the Curvature of Your Hands
   
by Harding Stedler .......................6
  
  Dirty Socks
   
by Larry Hodges ..........................7
  
  Lucy 
   
by Stan Long .............................7
  

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