Published November 1988
Theme: Fourth World
“Our fourth issue has a distinctly fourth-world flavor. We also have…an actuarial oddity and an exiled evil, a lonely fisherman, an enemy and an ersatz revolutionary, a woman with a strange past (and stranger present), a writer caught in a devilish loop, kids in search of escape, and a team of unusual adventurers.”
- Spirit of the Agreement, by Richard McGonegal
- The Black Mirror, by Stephen Briody
- As an Anvil from the Snow (poem), by Jeffrey Bullock
- The Listener, by Rick Lawlor
- A Little Dream of Winter, by Ken Wisman
- Haggard (poem), by Dwight E. Humphries
- Public Enemy, by Cliff Burns
- The Internationally Known Madame Defarges (poem), by Sue Marra
- If I Miss with This Nine-Pound Hammer, by Dan Crawford
- Fragrances of the Flesh, by Lucy Taylor
- Scent of Lilacs (poem), by Janet Reedman
- The Sexton’s Daughter (poem), by Jeffrey Bullock
- Two from the Dragon, by Jeannette M. Hopper
- Animal, by Trevor Floyd
- Status (poem), by Tom Rentz
- Expectations, by Michael Hurley
- A Taste of Venom (poem), by D. M. Vosk
- The Sky Kids of Hell Bender, by Chris Harold Stevenson
- Beetling Storm, by D. Singleton-Richard
- Venture in Shennesport, by Colleen Drippé
- Song for the End of the New World (poem), by Elizabeth Hillman
- Artists: Ray Basham (cover), Jim Garrison, Marge Simon, Bruce Benson, D. Singleton-Richard, John Del Gaizo