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Deadline: August 3, 2012 (postmark) Past instructors include Michael Email your dazzling work to [email protected] or Crummey, Don McKay, Mary mail it to: Dalton, Jessica Grant and Joan Riddle Fence Clark. PO Box 7092 St. John’s, NL, Canada A1E 3Y3 For more information about Piper’s Frith, visit: Questions? Write to www.literaryartsnl.com/pipersfrith.htm [email protected] CONTENTS Poetry 26 Irish Poets A Riddle Fence Special Feature Flip the magazine for this featured section Fiction Caitlin Laura Galway Dog Fights in Dresden 11 First Prize Winner / Riddle Fence Short Fiction Contest 2011 Matthew Heiti The First Snow Covers Everything 23 Andrew MacDonald Up, Away, Here, Gone 32 Ryan Paterson An Imposter 43 Contributors 55 Acknowledgements 55 (2011). Digital photograh by Jillian Parsons, 22” x 30”. (2011). Digital photograh by Jillian Parsons, Limited Possession—April “I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.” Colette Urban, “I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.” ON THE FENCE Carson Butts You’re standing there with a full pint of beer in your left, and I push my pint into your right the moment before I pants you in front of all our friends; you didn’t see it coming.