COLUMNS AND SPECIAL FEATURES
   
  Fiction Contest Guidelines .................1
  Coffee Break ...............................3
  Over the Transom ...........................4
  Market News ................................5
  Calliope Mailbox ...........................8
  Loring's Corner ...........................10
  Generally Speaking ........................12
  Scary Scrawlings ..........................13
  Pen-Pal Critiques .........................28
      
NONFICTION
    
  Literature and the Internet   
     by Jim Brearton  .......................15
   
FICTION
  
  Finalist, 2008 Fiction Contest
  Dressed for Success  
    by Aleta Hallemeier .....................16
  
  The Last Abutment  
    by Stan Long ............................20
  
  Search for Publication    
    by D. A. Kentner ........................22
  
  XYZ  
    by Ashutosh Ghildiyal ...................24
  
  Rendezvous  
    by Freeda Baker Nichols .................27
  
  That’s Just My Luck    
    by Erica Sears ..........................28
  
  The Proactive Big Bad Wolf    
    by Julie C. Judes .......................31
  
  Shmily   
    by Tom Hooker ...........................32
  
POETRY
    
  Lovers of Spring
    by Christine Schulze .....................2
  
  Lesson  
    by Robert A. Hall ........................5
  
  Holding Her Heart 
    by Paula Slack ...........................9
  
  At a Station in the Metropolitan Museum 
    by John Thomas Clark ....................11
  
  To My Friend 
    by Ashutosh Ghildiyal ...................11
  
  Celestial Dust 
    by Michael Jerry Tupa ...................14
  
  Containing Beauty 
    by Ashutosh Ghildiyal ...................26
  
  Rustling Curtains  
    by Michael Jerry Tupa ...................31