Foreword | Haase
Poetry
Not Quite Enough | Faber
Camp Counselor | Adkins
The Moon Knows | Brummels
Free Spirit | Maloney
The Morning after You Left | McNealy Sosin
Your Nomad Heart | Moran
Prairies | Nolting
My Dad Loves Kissing Other Women | Robert
Emily the Fix | Rose
Summer's Last Stand | Sousek
Flint Woman | Wren
The Death of Marat | ShennonDoah
Walking on a desert trail, we meet the two young couples | Adkins
Where Have All the Horses Gone? | Brummels
Class of '63 | Maloney
Bicycle Kids | McNealy Sosin
Truck Song at the Salvage Yard | Moran
Pond, Haiku | Sousek
Iron Gray | Nolting
Dad and the N-Word | Rose
Night Breathing | Wren
Feeding My Neighbor's Cat | Adkins
Empanadas at Luna's | Brummels
Seventy-three | Dickinson
Everyone Loves a Hardware Store | McNealy Sosin
The Gardener's Lament | Sousek
whimsical web | ShennonDoah
Hard Water | Moran
Villanelle | Torraca-Bragdon
My Loves (for Deb) | Nolting
Biology | Rose
Road Song | Wren
Madame Bovary, C'est Moi | ShennonDoah
Is This How It Starts? | McNealy Sosin
Driving through Snow | Rose
The Morning After | Sousek
The Candle | Baron
Marriage Maybe | Jackson
28 | Johnson
The old farmers know. | Olsen
Wrists | Rose
The Rain Began | Sousek
Braided Prairie Rivers | McNealy Sosin
Essays
Mittens | Baron
Changing the Narrative | Carpenter-Nolting
Feet | Dickinson
Christmas and Tinsel | Gerhardt
Moving Out Sale: A Hermit Crab Style Essay | McNealy Sosin
The Freedom to Pass Gas | Peyton
The College Experience | Ray-Smolik
Short Stories
The Late Show with 90KF Yottaflop | Jones
The Branding | Peyton
Corn Maze | Calhoun-Forecki
Broken Branches | Engstrom
Nonnie Grew Up Too Soon | Gerhardt
The Emperor's New Clothes | Robert
Half-lives of Shoes Abandoned along Interstate 80 | Hruza
The House | Olsen
What We Remember | Baron
The Railroad Watch | Peyton
Time and Time Again | Quinn
Farther Along | Ray-Smolik
Out of the Fire | Riley
Letting Go of Jason | Robert
Sound Control | Hruza
The Writer of Dreams | Seegebarth
Loose Change | Smutko
Chicken in a Storm | Riley
Exorcise This | Wielechowski
Nonfiction and Memoir
Thane Baker Helps Mother on Wash Day | Nicholson
No, I'm Not Dead | Beck
Where the Wild Things Are . . . Cooked and Eaten | Smutko
Forks in the Road | Beck
Garlic, My Sicilian Family, and Becoming Dead | Gerhardt
A Long Story about a Quick Decision | Howard
Lighter | McMillan Rives
You Never Know . . . | Nolting
The Birthday Party | Robert
When the Inconceivable Became Real | Beck
Excerpts from a Novel
Parallels | Lyons Hoard
Invasion | Colburn
Brave Charlie and the Awful Quiet | Habron-Wach
Closing Down | Adkins
A Lakota Education | Lukas
Shadow Walker | Lyons Hoard
Queen of Hearts | Riley
The Dream Delivery Service | Habron-Wach
Ben and Ada and the Order of the Raven | Riley
Shadow of the Eclipse | Seegebarth
Lindsay Doll | ShennonDoah
Flash Fiction
Open the Door | Dickinson
Returning Borrowed Time | Dickinson
The Arkansas | Smutko
About the Authors
About the Nebraska Writers Guild
Acknowledgments
Index by Author
Index by Title
