Contents

Deborah Bacharach
Out of Town

S. L. Alderton
The Last Gas Station in Iowa
The Stillborn Speech

Carrie Causey
Girl Playing Dead
One Dream of Purgatory

Andrew Cox
From Me Far Off, with Others All to Near
Lilies that Fester Smell Far Worse than Weeds

Dustin Hellberg
Loki
Usufruct

Kimberly Horne
Summer with Father in a Small Town
West Texas, 3 PM

Norman Lock
2nd Alphabet of Shadows
Alphabet of Negative Numbers

Anthony Opal
Fragments

Peter Street
Hotel Room
Another Sideline—1957

Sue Brannan Walker
2:55 a.m.
Despair

Amy Wright
Cracker Apocalypse
Twelve cracker cheerleaders on a bus encounter a band of aliens

Summer © 2012 by Richard Long