THE BEAR DELUXE #26
SPECIAL FICTION ISSUE
DOUG FIR FICTION AWARD

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Masthead
Front of the Book
Experience, Confluence Project
FLASH FICTION
Small Places
Flash fiction runs for the fences
FICTION
The Lord's People Colorado (pdf)
by Lorie Kolak
Self Service (pdf)
by Robert Stubblefield
Rolling One-Handed (pdf)
by Loretta Stinson
Afterword
Judge's comments on the Doug Fir Fiction Award's winner and finalists
GRAPHIC NOVELLA
Stumptown Roast
by Ryan Brown, Lukas Ketner and Tom Webb
INTERVIEWS
Fog City Believer
Author and editor Vendela Vida speaks from her hometown café
by Mateo Hoke
Changing Places
Author and professor Kevin Canty defines place-based writing
by Susan Wickstrom
INDEPENDENT ART
Through a Lens Darkly
by Smith Eliot
REVIEWS
Green Fiction
by Casey Bush, Rachael Cate, Susan Wickstrom
RESOURCE PAGE
Making Book
Organizations dedicated to do-it-yourself publishing
ORLO
Updates
FEATURED ART
Corey Lunn
Meredith Dittman
Sally Harless
Anne Horst
Tia Hawley
Smith Eliot