Final spring / Marlin Barton -- The blues is dying in the place it was born / Rick Bragg -- Bitsy / Jill Conner Browne -- S. Trident / C. Terry Cline, Jr. -- My heart's content / Pat Conroy -- The octopus alibi / Tom Corcoran -- I would like to go back as I am, now, to you as you were, then / Beth Ann Fennelly -- The girl from Soldier Creek / Patricia Foster -- Christmas 1893 / Tom Franklin -- Come home, come home, it's suppertime / William Gay -- Everything must go / Jim Gilbert -- Going back to the bridge in Berlin / W.E.B. Griffin -- Just a little closer to the Lord / Winston Groom -- Love like a bullet / Melinda Haynes -- Left behind / Frank Turner Hollon -- The last days / Silas House -- The fall of the Nixon administration / Suzanne Hudson -- A modern tragedy / Douglas Kelley -- Payback / Tom Kelly -- Killing Stonewall Jackson / Michael Knight -- White sugar and red clay / Bev Marshall -- Blackbird / Barbara Robinette Moss -- And when I should feel something / Jennifer Paddock -- How this song ends / Judith Richards -- From Tuscon to Tucumcari, from Hatchabee to Tonopah / Richard Shackelford -- Vietnam / George Singleton -- Jesus, beans, and butter rum Lifesavers / Monroe Thompson -- Arnold's number / Sidney Thompson -- The dead girl / Brad Watson -- The right kind of person / Steve Yarbrough.