When great bars are gone, they’re gone forever. But we know, don’t we, that they will fail. Foolhardy-or is it affectionate?-owners try. But when a great bar is destroyed, it can never be rebuilt. You can rebuild a Chili’s you can rebuild a Hilton hotel bar. And great bars are living organisms, loaned to us mortals for a while, then taken away. Great bars are great because we’re great when we’re in them. Great bars are great because of what can happen inside. Great bars are built with time, chance, history. Great bars, saloons, and cafes aren’t built with lumber, mortar, concrete. The editors would like to thank the man with the plan, Sonny Brewer the writers who gave their work the good folks at MacAdam/Cage who published it so well (especially Kate Nitze, Pat Walsh, and David Poindexter) and the bookstores who have welcomed it (especially Lemuria in Jackson, MS The Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, AL and Square Books in Oxford, MS). 51 (Summer 2004) and Daniel Wallace’s “The Last Time I Saw Him” in Glimmer Train (Spring 2005). 3/4 (Summer/Fall 2002) Joe Formichella’s “Fishtraps” in Yalobusha Review (2004) Bret Anthony Johnston’s “Bird of Paradise” in The Southwest Review Brock Clarke’s “The Reason Was Us” in The Georgia Review (Spring 2004) Michelle Richmond’s “The Hero of Queens Boulevard” in Glimmer Train No. 2 (Spring 2004) David Wright’s “Writing the Real World” in The Kenyon Review, Vol. 1 (May 2005) Brad Vice’s “Tuscaloosa Knights” in Five Points, Vol. IX (Spring 2004) Donald Hays’s “Ackerman in Eden” in The Southern Review (Autumn 2004) and in Dying Light (MacAdam/Cage 2005) Suzanne Kingsbury’s “What War Will Do” in Atlanta Magazine, Vol. Jack Pendarvis’s “The Poet I Know” in Yalobusha Review, Vol. Several of these stories have appeared elsewhere, in some cases in a different form: Edited by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennellyīy Editors Franklin, Tom and Fennelly, Beth (Beth Ann)

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