CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Bob Batchelor

Fiction

FRED

Lauren Baratz-Logsted & Greg Logsted

TUMBLING

Gayle Brandeis

THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN

Gretchen Moran Laskas

ONE MORE WRONG THING

Russell Rowland

RENO

Tiffany Lee Brown

JC WAS THE FIRST GOTH KID

Steven A. Hoffman

THE WALLS, TEXAS—1987

Amanda Nowlin-O’Banion

THE SNOW CHASER

Peter Cashwell

TERMINAL

Kyle Duane Hebert

BEAT BACK THE DROWNING TIDES

Emily Reardon

THE GIRL FROM BOULDER RIDGE

Vernell Hackett

THE TRAIN STOPS

Adam-Troy Castro

DOES IT EVER END?

Bob Batchelor

Nonfiction

WALKIN’ CONTRADICTION

Leigh H. Edwards

JOHNNY CASH AND C. S. LEWIS

Don Cusic

NOTHIN’ SHORT OF DYIN’ HALF AS LONESOME AS THE SOUND

Laurel Snyder

RING OF FIRE

Alison Stine

SAUL (AND CASH) ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

Edward J. Rielly

THE MAN IN BLACK ON DVD

Robert G. Weiner

JOHNNY CASH AND THE CRIMINAL MIND

Todd M. Callais