Published August 1989
Theme: Wallflower
“You can’t fool me: I know you were slipping back into dreary normality while we were gone.”
- Matters of Family, by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Toads Slump (poem), by Paul Weinman
- A Weekend Alone, by Jeannette M. Hopper
- Milady, Whoever You Are (poem), by Jeffrey Bullock
- Dark Thing, by Gary S. O’Neal
- Portrait (poem), by John Grey
- The Other Other, by Gerard Daniel Houarner
- Enthrall Me, by Lucy Taylor
- Dreams III (poem), by Jeffrey Bullock
- Green Grits, by Colleen Drippé
- The Sound of a Door, by D. Singleton
- Peacekeeper, by Kay Fortunato
- Watching You Without Me, by Robert Sagirs, Jr.
- Woman As Wine (poem), by Delia Shiflet
- The Mercy in Your Eyes, by James Lee
- Syndrome of a Rotten Youth (poem), by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Planting Amelia, by Lynn Stratton
- Worms (poem), by Wayne Edwards
- The Wisdom of Zen Master Kool Rap, by Walter Lide
- Artists: John Borkowski (cover), Ray Basham, Augie Wiedemann, Allen Koszowski, Kathleen Freels Benton