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• The Grand Gesture • (1998) • short story by Tim Emswiler
• Spider Willie • short story by Donald R. Burleson [as by Donald Burleson]
• Trick or Treat or ... • (1996) • short story by Kurt Newton
• Dirty Windows • short story by James S. Dorr
• The Bridge • (1996) • short story by C. S. Fuqua
• The Cut of Words • short story by D. F. Lewis
• And the Monkey Thought It Was All in Fun • short story by Kendall Evans
• The Family Circle • short story by Bob Schmalfeldt
• Dunbar's Razor • short story by Thomas Deja
• One Day in Late March • short story by Denise Dumars
• Perfect • short story by Lawrence Barker
• The Tale of Bluebeard ... • short story by Donna Taylor Burgess
• Kiss Them for Me • short story by Jeff Somers
• Back Outside the Creature Barn • short story by C. C. Parker
• Game • short story by Terry Alexander
• The Law • short story by Lorin Emery
• Night of a Thousand Eyes • short story by Don Webb
• Missing Heinrich • short story by Phyllis Pyle
• Out of His Head • short story by Stefano Donati
• The Hole • short story by Ardath Mayhar
• The People • short story by G. W. Thomas
• Writer's Block • short story by Byron Starr
• Witcher Woman • short story by Daniel C. Bonasky
• Angel Wings • short story by Sherrie Brown and Gene KoKayKo and Craig Strickland [as by Sherrie Brown and Gene KoKayKo and Craig A. Strickland]
• The Beauty of Sin • short story by Jeffrey A. Stadt
• 9 • Wild Horses • (1990) • poem by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
• 12 • On a Bleak October Afternoon • poem by William P. Robertson
• 24 • The Thaw • poem by K. S. Hardy
• 31 • If You Love Something ... • poem by H. P. Scott Drew
• 35 • Hymn to a Zombie God • poem by Thomas Zimmerman
• 49 • Touch • poem by Sandy Kidd
• 50 • Viper Grain • poem by Nancy Bennett
• 50 • Wake • (1989) • poem by John Grey (variant of The Wake)
• 56 • Hemlock • (1992) • poem by Corrine De Winter
• 57 • Mark, Pink-Slipped • poem by Karen R. Porter [as by Karen Porter]
• 68 • Working the Graveyard Shift • poem by G. O. Clark
• 72 • White in the Northern Shadows • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 78 • Sky Cats • poem by Meg Smith
• 86 • Bountiful • poem by Craig Sernotti and Scott H. Urban
• 88 • Lingering Above the Third Vertebra • poem by Douglas M. Stokes
• 97 • Sniper • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• 103 • The Loss of Heroin(e) • poem by Marge Simon [as by Marge B. Simon]
• 107 • Creatures Without Names • poem by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 107 • Suck Demon • poem by Holly Day
• 111 • Posse Comitatus • (1995) • poem by Wayne Edwards
• 115 • Wet Tissue • poem by Michael A. Arnzen
• 122 • Night Flight • (1978) • poem by Bruce Boston
• 150 • Saturday Afternoon Drive with a Friend • poem by Mark Craver
• 152 • Stiff • poem by Cindy Main
• bc • Cash and Carry Me • (1990) • poem by Cathy Buburuz