Introduction: Love, the strange attractor / by William W. Demastes -- Subtext of texting / Lorin Howard -- Request / Vincent Delaney -- It's only a minute a guy / John Franceschini -- Thread count / Lisa Soland -- Dissonance / Craig Pospisil -- Creatures / Janet Allard -- Coyote stratagem / G. Flores -- Chocolates on the pillow / Arlene Hutton -- And yet-- / Steve Feffer -- A song for me, or getting the Oscar / John Bolen -- Scar tissue / Gabriel Rivas Gomez -- Snowbound / Brent Englar -- Eleanor's passing / John Patrick Bray -- A marriage proposal / Kimberly La Force -- Till death do us / Gene Fiskin -- A number on the roman calendar / David Johnston -- Six dead bodies duct-taped to a merry-go-round / Lindsay Mariana Walker and Dawson Moore -- Starfishes / Michael Ross Albert -- St. Matilde's malady / Kyle John Schmidt -- Lobster boy / Dan Dietz -- You're invited / Darren Canady -- Acknowledgments.