MAYBE NEXT TIME
(vol. 37, no. 3, autumn 2025)

Cover photograph

by Michele Ivy Davis

Contents
[stories, short-shorts, poems, photographs)

This Spider Needs Practice!
     Photo by Ted Burrows, viii

My Road to Fame and Glory, Michele Ivy Davis, 1

When's My Turn? photo by Lynda Fox, 8

Paladin and Me and the Mylar Menace,
     Lynda Fox, 9

Pinball Wizard: Next Level Pinball Museum,
     Allison Burris, 16

Maybe Next Time, Victor Coltey, 17

The Pastel Carousel, Tom Gengler, 20

Over My Dead Body, Erika Hoffman, 21

Maybe Next Time, Michelle Humphrey, 24

The Nextime Collection, John White, 25

Photo by Michelle Ivy Davis, 45

Seem Familiar?, Matthew J. Spireng, 46

Maybe Next Time…, Garrett Moraski, 47

Remorse, Lauro Palomba, 58

Some Other Time Perhaps, Terri Watrous Berry, 59

The Next Story, Deborah H. Doolittle, 62

The Magical Library Bus and
     Food Vending Arcade, Joni Chng, 63

The Fiddle & the Wind, Jane Stuart, 71

Blame the Camera! photo by Lynda Fox, 72

Risk-Taker, Linda Berry, 73

Shot Down, Edward Beatty, 77

Premise: Communication, 78