Acknowledgments
Introduction
Writing underwater
Part I
Before the levees broke
What’s the score?
by Ted O’Brien
Two-story brick houses
by Patty Friedmann
Scared rabbit
by Tim McLoughlin
Schevoski
by Olympia Vernon
Algiers
by David Fulmer
Pony Girl
by Laura Lippman
The battling priests of Corpus Christi
by Jervey Tervalon
Open Mike
by James Nolan
All i could do was cry
by Kalamu ya Salaam
There shall your heart be also
by Barbara Hambly
Part II
Life in Atlantis
Muddy pond
by Maureen Tan
Lawyers’ tongues
by Thomas Adcock
And hell walked in
by Jeri Cain Rossi
Night taxi
by Christine Wiltz
Annunciation shotgun
by Greg Herren
Loot
by Julie Smith
Angola South
by Ace Atkins
Marigny Triangle
by Eric Overmyer
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