An anthology featuring short fiction, essays, and poetry, all inspired by the music of Bruce Springsteen. Track List This Is Your Hometown . . . Katie Runde A Lord's Prayer . . . Gary Leising There's a Joke Here Somewhere and It's On Me . . . Sara Lippmann Star Jet Standing . . . Erin Keane [saxophone solo] . . . Sarah Priscus In The Taco Bell Drive-Thru I Read Bruce Springsteen's Palm . . . Lauren Howton Like Only A Lonely Angel . . . Kelly Shire At Sixteen . . . Justin Hamm Bruce Springsteen is my new dad--ask me how! . . . Rax King Badlands . . . Matt Mitchell Can't Start a Fire Without a Spark . . . Betsy Housten Baby Teeth . . . Elinor Ann Walker Mary, Wendy, Rosalita . . . Madeline Anthes Self-Portrait as the Girl from a Springsteen Song . . . Jessie Lynn McMains Rosalita Code . . . Amy Rossi & Megan Phillips The Promised Land . . . Jade Hurter Independence . . . Erin Cork Never in Neutral . . . K. Weber Wreck on the Highway . . . Michael O'Malley Atlantic City . . . Angelo Colavita Wrong Side of the Winning Line . . . Patty Templeton Backyard Grave . . . April Lindner Winners and Losers . . . Dorian Sinnott A Debt No Honest Man Can Pay . . . Bill Yarrow Joy Ride . . . Travis Cravey dressed in drag for homicide . . . Rico Craig Switchblade Lovers . . . Michael Leonberger Kansas . . . Atar Hadari The Siren of 7th Street . . . Don Raymond Busted . . . Kevin Oberlin This Place Where I Live . . . Michael Calderwood Reason to Believe . . . Matthew Woodman Streets of Elkton . . . James McAdams Outside Atlantic City . . . Erin Keane Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey . . . Armand Rosamilia My Father Said . . . Elinor Ann Walker All the Boys She Sent Away . . . David Turnbull Johnny's Girl . . . Angela Caravan We Take Care of Our Own . . . Michael O'Malley Burn This . . . Janna Layton Birth of Office Bad Boy . . . Marina Mularz Asbury Park . . . Angelo Colavita Fat Man and Wild Billy . . . Nikki Tranter Dallas, The Rocker, and The Redhead . . . Chris Haven Greasy Lake Swim Club . . . Justin Lutz the night our team destroyed those goddamn panthers . . . Matt Mitchell The Heroes We Thought We Had To Be . . . Adam McCulloch First Lesson in Vietnam, 1987 . . . Justin Hamm The Fire, The Spark . . . Mar Catherine Stratford Driving to the Jersey Shore . . . Margaret DeRitter Girls Who Cruise . . . Sutton Strother Roads . . . Amanda Crum Born to Run . . . Lisa Mangini Poem which is just the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' or is it . . . Rax King Engrafting . . . Donna Luff A Supermarket in New Jersey . . . Erin Keane Carrying a Friend . . . Dave Housley Rises Bold and Stark . . . Rico Craig Perfect Circle . . . Jennifer Wortman Synonyms of Springtime Surrender . . . Juliette Sebock A.C. . . . Ambrose Tardive Geography Lessons . . . Matthew Woodman Nowhere Radio . . . Holly Schofield My Other Cheek . . . Dalton Huerkamp My City of Ruins . . . Aisling Keogh Philadelphia . . . Angelo Colavita Blinded . . . Ralph Dartford Just to Slip This Skin . . . Sawyer Lovett Fire . . . Jenna Gomes New Year in Nebraska . . . Atar Hadari Rosalita's Gonna Bust This City in Half . . . Ellie Campbell San Francisco Bay Dusk Ode With Bruce Springsteen . . . Lauren Howton What It Means . . . Patricia Fuentes Burns My Old Soul . . . Finn Wylie The Dao of Bruce . . . Erin Cork Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Vivino Jam at Convention Hall, Asbury Park . . . BJ Ward Tunnel of Love . . . Nick Desjardins