Published October 2005
Theme: Numinous
“Maybe it’s a sign of the End Times: this may not be any god’s book, but welcome to our numinous issue. Here we have the flawed and the divine side by side in stories of a moon and woman who wax and wane, the hidden hands of a crucified man, a woman who cries for all the world, the elusive mysticism of books, the son of man made to choose, and a sweet god and a coat that won’t be beautiful.”
- Drink Down, by Sonya Taaffe
- In Sight of the Seasons (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
- His Wounds, by Patricia J. Esposito
- The Word God (poem), by Eric Marin
- Street Oracle (poem), by Lee Clark Zumpe
- It Will Not Be Beautiful, by Patricia Russo
- The Thin Men (poem), by Kristine Ong Muslim
- The Eyewish Station (poem), by Mike Allen
- You Don’t Exist (poem), by Kent Kruse
- The Book Smeller, by Mark Steensland
- Aranea (poem), by Mike Allen and Sonya Taaffe
- Valley of Bones, by Harold Torger Vedeler
- Autumn, or Fall (poem), by Jennifer Gomoll
- The Crying Queen, by Lila Garrott
- Gods with Big Heads (poem), by Karen R. Porter
- Artists: HE Fassl (cover), Teresa Tunaley, Russell Dickerson, Augie Wiedemann