Second Thoughts
(vol. 29, no. 2, summer 2017)

Contents
[stories, short-shorts, poems)

Screen Door, Cherie Bowers, viii

Three Nights and Two Days, Norbert Petsch, 1

Improbable World, Rodney Torreson, 7

Flower Moon, Ted Duke, 9

Photograph, Eric Rawson, 14

Second Trip, Susannah M. Wilson, 15

Photograph, Kathleen Gunton, 20

Wheat Bread, Sky Andrews Gerspacher, 21

Mom on the Moon, Denise Dalfino , . . . . . . 28

Who Needs a Stress Test?, Dick Slater, 29

Photograph, Eric Rawson, 32

The Barzakh, Helmi Ben Meriem, 33

The Slickenside, Robert Wooten, 36

The Creature, Marshall Riggan, 37

This Is a Terrible Date, Susie Berg, 51

Auld Lang Syne, Linda Tyler, 53

Birth of a Second Thought, Margo Peterson, 62

Little White Lines, Judith Overmier, 63

At the Mall, Marilyn E. Johnston, 69

Another Person, Kitty-Lydia Dye, 71

Habit, Matthew J. Spireng, 80

Cartoon, Devyani Borade, 81

Duplicitous, Jim Hart, 82

Cover photograph by Eleanor Leonne Bennett