On names, places, and time / Stephen J. Ostrander -- From "Be true to your school" / Bob Greene -- Life itself / William Allen -- In memory of Dino / Charlene Fix -- My state of the state-address / David Citano -- Strike / Amy Sparks -- Ohioan by choice / Les Roberts -- Lazy bones / Diane Fencl -- Basement / Richard Hague -- The company of widows / Larry Smith -- Hard roots / Laura Smith -- A figure in a moonscape / Phil Boiarski -- The farm not taken / Robert Fox -- New to this stretch of the road / Gaile Gallatin -- In my solitude / Doug Swift -- Big meeting / Danny Fulks -- Tucker's Run / Brian Richards -- Cincinnati, a note from the province / Kevin Walzer -- On being landlocked / Constance Pierce -- Survival and resistance / Joe Napora -- Hardin County ditch witch / Claude C. Smith -- Life's fiction, fiction's life / Robert Flanagan