Alva Beth sings the blues / Robyn Allers -- Dead lands / Emma Bolden -- Harold Washburn / Wendy Reed Bruce -- The other / Marian Carcache -- Seeing it through / Loretta Cobb -- Fig picking / Sandra King Conroy -- Mrs. McCammock / Linda Elliott -- Julian Carol finds the pine cones / Anita Miller Garner -- Where have you gone, Shirley Temple? / Anne George -- Leetha's own / Aileen Kilgore Henderson -- Fishtales told to a crow, mid-spring / Laura Hunter -- Imp-dancing in the Heart of Dixie / Cindy Jones -- Tattoo (excerpted) / Janet Mauney -- Terminal Bend (excerpted) / Patricia Mayer -- A touch of the spirit / Julia Oliver -- Miss Woman (excerpted) / Ann Vaughan Richards -- Summer lightning (excerpted) / Judith Richards -- The last bad thing / Michelle Richmond -- Baby in the cold frame / Mary Louise Robison -- Living in the river (excerpted) / Scarlett Robinson Saavedra -- Dancing in the basement / Carolynne Scott -- A bully and his victim / Millie Anton Skinner -- Calling up the moon / B.K. Smith -- Sex on the beach / Patricia Lou Taylor -- Piano lessons / Tammy Townsend -- The dog that wasn't a dog / Betty Jean Tucker.