Published October 2008
Theme: Waiting or Leaving
“Most everyone here seems to be either waiting or leaving…. Eagles and crows, pinions and prey, and the angel inside: but that’s not the half of it. We have murder ballads and sad, sad blues, three men up and one man left behind, exchange students and alien eyes, a wife’s waking, an assassin’s morning, and the middle hours, vampires and sirens, a salt-sunk sea and the waiting begun again.”
- Flotsam, by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Cold Spring Calling-On (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
- Pinion, by Amanda Downum
- The Eyes However (poem), by Karen R. Porter
- One Man Home, by Shane Nelson
- Foreign Exchange Student (poem), by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- The Assassin’s Morning (poem), by J.J. Steinfeld
- Charlie, by Patricia Russo
- The Middle Hours (poem), by Danny Adams
- On Waking (poem), by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
- Song of the Mother (poem), by Gemma Files
- Tales of Eaglesnest, by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
- No Blues Sadder Than This (poem), by Kent Kruse
- Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds, by Erik Amundsen
- Art: Dale Rhodes (cover), John Stanton