Brand-new stories by: James W. Hall, Barbara Parker, John Dufresne, Paul Levine, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, Tom Corcoran, Christine Kling, George Tucker, Kevin Allen, Anthony Dale Gagliano, David Beaty, Vicki Hendricks, John Bond, Preston Allen, Lynne Barrett, and Jeffrey Wehr. From the introduction by Les Standiford: The truth is that Miami, though naturally lovely, is a frontier town, perched on the border between the known and the rarely before experienced . . . We are not only on the edge of the continent, we are to this country what New York was in Ellis Island's heyday, what the West Coast was in the middle of the 20th century. This is where the new arrivals debark these days, and it is no mistake that during the last decade of the last century, commentators as diverse as Joan Didion, David Rieff, and T.D. Allman devoted entire volumes to Miami's role as the harbinger for America's future . . . But for now, the novel of crime and punishment is the perfect vehicle to convey the spirit and the timbre of this brawling place to a wider world. CONTENTS Ride along / James W. Hall—Dead storage / Christine Kling—Silence of the stone age / George Tucker—Sawyers / Kevin Allen—Blown away / Anthony Dale Gagliano—One man's ceiling / Tom Corcoran—Solomon & Lord Drop Anchor / Paul Levine—The last of Lord Jitters / David Beaty—The timing of unfelt smiles / John Dufresne—Boozanne, lemme be / Vicki Hendricks—The recipe / Carolina Garcia-Aguilera—T-bird / John Bond—Swap out / Preston Allen—The noir boudoir / Lynne Barrett—Machete / Barbara Parker—The swimmers / Jeffrey Wehr.