A roadside resurrection / Larry Brown -- Choose your travel partner wisely / Michelle Richmond -- Rome, Italy / Fannie Flagg -- A waltz in the snow / Eric Kingrea -- Vials of life / Lee Gay Warren -- Succubus / Les Standiford -- My heroes have always been grill cooks / John T. Edge -- Orphans / Donald Hays -- The saint of broken objects / Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin -- Dialogue of men and boys / David Wright -- Lomax's trials / Joe Formichella -- A Fairhope alien / Gregory Benford -- Baseball dreams ; The bowman's hand / Charles Ghigna -- Last days of the dog-men / Brad Watson -- My life is a country song / Cassandra King -- Speckled trout / Ron Rash -- Panama / Suzanne Kingsbury -- A best seller's pursuit of technology / W.E.B. Griffin -- Escape by zebra / Jack Pendarvis -- Just an old cur / Michael Morris -- Gatlinburg / Silas House -- Ernest / Sidney Thompson -- Body perfect / Jill Conner Browne -- Veneer / Steve Yarbrough -- One man's indelible marks / George Singleton -- Down in New Orleans / Robert Gatewood -- Floundering / Ben Erickson -- Linda Wahlthal / David Fuller -- The scrapbook / Frank Turner Hollon -- The seamstress / Suzanne Hudson -- Dog days / Jamie Kornegay -- Homecoming / William Gay.