CONTENTS      LAST VINEGAR STROKE     DOORKNOBS     ROCK MAGIC     FROM THE CHANCERY ARCHIVES OF KING HENRY V     A POCKETKNIFE AND A CIVIL UNION     EVEN YOU CAN BE A WINNER!     AUTHORS

Meg Barden writes at her 1830 farmhouse in Stoddard, New Hampshire and at an apartment in Keene.

"Last Vinegar Stroke" is one of many unique pieces of prose written by Jon Brown who is a juggling house husband with a beautiful wife and four children. Cultivated first as a hobby, writing prolifically has brought him some publishing success. Hopefully upon his final edit deadline in June 2006, his first book "Autopilot" will be published by Lionel Parker.

Corey Cook works at a nonprofit community center. His poems have appeared in Bear Creek Haiku, Children, Churches and Daddies, Haiku Headlines, Poets Against the War and Ship of Fools. Corey lives in Contoocook, NH with his wife and two adopted cats.

Rob Loughran's first novel "High Steaks" won the 2002 New Mystery Award. His second novel "Norman Babbit, Scientist" was published in March 2006 by Publish America. His encyclopedic, 700 page "A Man Walks Into a Bar... A Compendium of Filthy, Uncouth, Lewd, Lusty and Lascivious Jokes" is available at www.lulu.com

Ray Regan grew up in Milford, New Hampshire and lives there still. He writes short fiction and has a novel in progress.

Ralph Sperry is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. His sf novelette, On Vacation, appeared in the anthology, Bending the Landscape: sf. Most recently, his mainstream story, "He and She," appeared in Private Places. Ralph A. Sperry's science fiction novel, "Status Quotient: The Carrier", has been included in the Gaylactic(sic) Spectrum Awards Hall of Fame.