Welcome to the July 2004 edition of Net Author's E2K. This is also the last issue of Net Author's E2K.

If you've been following our recent events, you'll have noticed that we've undergone a few changes. Those changes have, unfortunately, not rescued us. After nearly five years of service, Net Author has reached the end of its funding and staffing resources. Without an infusion of both, the journal simply can't continue.

Because we see no real change in either of those conditions on the horizon, we thought we'd make this "last" issue a rich one and, so to speak, go out with a bang. This issue is, therefore, going to take more than a few minutes to read, so grab a cup of your favorite beverage and make yourself comfortable. There's probably more here than you want to read in one sitting, so take the time to enjoy it; come back to it when you're ready for your next installment, and let yourself linger, feel, see, and taste the works here the same way you would that last piece of cheesecake.

We hope you enjoy the works in this edition of the journal as much as we have, and wish you the very best in your writing endeavors.

• Editorial "From the Publisher's Desk" by Robert Marcom
• Fiction: "The Curious Epiphany of Daffyd Thomas" by Michael Hulme
• Fiction: "To Touch Autumn Leaves" by Hasmita Chander
• Fiction: "The Circle Of The Well" by Rebecca George
• Fiction: "The Bookworm" by Kristina Riggle
• Poetry: "Becoming" by Julie Hartman
• Poetry: "Gravure" by Jack Forge
• Poetry: "Doury Road had no Greenhouse" by Ruth Mark
• Poetry: "Symphony of Madness" by Ray Van Horn, Jr.
• Poetry: "An Offer" by Louisa Howerow
• Poetry: "If She Tells Them" by Carrie Etter
• Poetry: "Green Light" by Helen Buckingham
• Poetry: "Dancing Downtown" by B. A. Goodjohn
• Poetry: "that legendary divorce" by Joe Quinn
• Poetry: "metaphysics" by Rochelle Hope Mehr
• Features: "Write and Shoot" by Chitra Soundar
• Features: "Road Trip" by Erica Brooks
• Features: Book Buzz. Review of M. A. Harper's The Worst Day of My Life, So Far by Julia Brown, Staff Writer
• Features: Honing the Craft. Writer Interview, and Review of Moira Anderson Allen's Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer by Magdalena Ball, Staff Writer