CONTENTS      THE SEED      COUSIN CHARLOTTE'S STORY      SPADE      CHILD OF FROST
     A SMALL TOWN BEAT      ON GOSSAMER WINGS      MICE      THE RIGHT THING


Corey Cook grew up in South Strafford, VT and now lives in Contoocook, NH. He graduated from New England College in the Spring of '02 with a BA in Literature and Creative Writing. Corey is a member of the Stone Bridge Poetry Project. His work has appeared in Northern New England Review and Red Owl.

Elizabeth Gauffreau is an academic advisor for the College for Lifelong Learning in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Her fiction has appeared in Blueline, The Long Story, Ad Hoc Monadnock, and others.

Lucy Suitor Holt loves to write stories about suspense and survival. She just released an audio CD titled Occasional Shadows. Her stories recently appeared in Whispers from the Shattered Forum and Flashshot. She is currently working on a novel.

A long-time resident of Lyndeborough, Jessie Salisbury has been writing for area newspapers for about 40 years, including the Milford Cabinet and Monadnock Ledger. She currently writes for The Telegraph of Nashua. She was a charter member of the Monadnock Writers' Group and her short stories appeared in both The Monadnock Writer and the Monadnock Reader.

Walt Schnabel is a freelance writer residing in Dublin, NH. He is currently working on a horror novel set in a small New Hampshire town.

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.

Isaac Wheeler is a young writer in New Hampshire, who works in the genres of poetry and fiction, motivated by an interest in both humanity and perception. Although his studies of philosophy remain an influence, he pursues an understated style, aiming to cut out exposition.

Irene H. Wellman is a teacher and poet living in Manchester, New Hampshire. Born and raised in England, she has lived in New Hampshire for 19 years and has come to love its wild beauty. Irene has contributed to on-line poetry forums and belongs to a writing group in Weare.