“We have a bike-riding companion who owns a snake and is free as a bird; a man radically avoiding company (in the spirit of Thoreau’s comment, ‘I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude’); a corbie commemorating a fallen knight; a body-double following a one-step program to save her parts from non-consensual coupling; and a woman sharing loneliness with a fruitcake and a grumpy gnome.”
- Klondike, by Elizabeth Stamford
- My Collection (poem), by John Grey
- Only the Lonely, by Iain Rowan
- The Third Corbie, by Sonya Taaffe
- Zealia, by Augie Wiedemann
- Single Step, by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
- Card Store (poem), by Marge Simon
- Death (poem), by Giovannni Malito
- When Life Gives You Fruitcake, by Kiel Stuart
- Artists: Augie Wiedemann (cover), Headless