Monsters! In a creation shaped increasingly by corporate values, monsters stand between our all-too-human fears and mysteries of the divine.

• We've added monsters
  Miriam Meinders and Kathleen Venema 6
• Confessions of a Christian-ish retailer
  Margot Starbuck 10
• Feeling the fear
• Stupid rape dream, Part 1
  Joanie Peters 15
• Monsters in our midst
  William O'Brien 16
• Wicked
  Stephanie Tombari 20
• Describing the darkness
  Bill Millar and Staff 23
• An unexpected encounter with the transcendent
  Robert Rowen-Herzog 28
• Black widow
  Lorette C. Luzajic 30
• Monster lament
  Greg Randall 33
• Raising the curtain
• Spoils (poetry)
  Brian Campbell 36
• Conveniences
  John W. Goossen 38
• We hate the animals (poetry)
  Alison Calder 38
• Demons rip creation where humans forget their calling
  Emilie Smith 40
• Monster liberation
  Aiden Enns and Kathleen Venema 45
• Sympathy at street level
  Adam Ward 46
• In the wake of Katrina
  Anna Bowen 48
• Nostalgia for the devil
  Lindsay Ferrier 53
• Keep the story simple
  Juliet Eastland 54
• Playing trump
  J-Tron 56
• The gift of monsters
• It has long legs
  Candace Froebe 61
• Monsters in the closet
  Caitlin Neufeld 63
• Sympathy for the devil
  Theresa Meinders 64
• From scary movie to 'torture porn' and back again
  Alan MacKenzie 66
• Drag
  Kathleen Venema 70
• Raising boys in times of video game violence
  Carla Keast 71
• Feed my Frankenstein
  Stuart McAulay 74
• Goth for Christ anyone?
  Staff 75
• Should we love Goliath?
  Will Braun 76
• Battle Posture
  Staff 77
• I cast a shadow
  Miriam Meinders 80
• The crow
  Kurt Armstrong 83
• Unfathomable divine
  Debbie Blue 84
• Stupid rape dream, Part 2
  Joanie Peters 90
• One secret fear
  Paula Spurr 91