The best of Montana's short fiction

Days of heaven / Rick Bass --

Big spender / Ralph Beer --

Custer on Mondays / Jon Billman --

Bears and lions / Mary Clearman Blew --

Junk / Kevin Canty --

Grounded / Claire Davis --

Under the wheat / Rick DeMarinis --

Blue waltz with coyotes / Jeanne Dixon --

Real Indians / Debra Magpie Earling --

Great Falls / Richard Ford --

Hoot / Pete Fromm --

Jacob dies / Allen Morris Jones --

Do you hear your mother talking? / William Kittredge --

Morphine / David Long --

Like a leaf / Thomas McGuane --

Heart / Neil McMahon --

Ranch girl / Maile Meloy --

Tough people / Chris Offutt --

Father, lover, deadman, dreamer / Melanie Rae Thon --

It's come to this / Annick Smith --

Mourning of Ignacio Rosa / Kim Zupan.