Wooden Cane by Sarena Ulibarri Pearl felt herself fall in slow motion. She saw the floor getting closer, felt the rush of air against her skin like a breeze. She saw her own hand, almost as a separate object, grasping toward the edge of the nearest table. When she hit the floor, the pain was a dull ache in her hip that cracked and oozed like egg white through her nerves. Lessons Nadine Learns by Johanna Miklós “You piece o’ shit! That’s my Sunday dress!” Nadine punched the clumsy football thrower on the nose, kicked him in the gut, and raced home to scrub out the offensive stain. Bean Sidhe by Maureen Bowden ‘You must never tell anyone, Moirhan.’ She always called me that daft name. Everyone else called me Marianne. ‘You and I are Bean Sidhe: women of the Sidhe, daughters of the Goddess,’ she glanced again at the statue, ‘whatever men choose to call her.’ Fiction Perry Mc Daid is guest fiction editor Literary Fiction Wooden Cane by Sarena Ulibarri Literary Fiction Lessons Nadine Learns by Johanna Miklós Literary Fiction Sandman by Paul Malone Speculative Fiction Bean Sidhe by Maureen Bowden Interviews Interview with the Voice of LI, Bob Eccles Speculative Fiction Mortar Attack by Adam Armstrong Fiction Traveler’s Recollection by Scott Birrenkott Poetry The Undead and the Unread by Tom Byers Flash Poem About The Moon by Bill Tyrell Poetry Midnight Mainstream by J. Rohr Poetry The Gods, Fallen by Marge Simon Poetry Slipped Out of Her Jeans by Michael Wells Flash Losing Hope by Franklin Charles Murdock Flash Safety by Karin Terebessy Flash Good as New by Shane D. Rhinewald