Loudly, the Maid starts your journey by stepping back in time with a story by Alex Vance about a young vulpine thief who uses his quick thinking and skills with disguise to get him out of more than one sticky situation. Sara Palmer's illustrations provide a glimpse into the costumes and characters of the era.

Chance: Happenstanced, a comic by Blotch, takes us to the picturesque but lonely hills and valleys of sheep-herding country, where you will see that keeping predators away from the sheep can sometimes be the least of a herding dog's worries.

First Taste is a journey down memory lane for the narrator, a mousy young woman whose college years were a time of personal discovery, in part through observation of others. The story is written by Rechan, with illustrations by Fel.

Nothing Else brings us a reunion between very close friends with poetry of motion and emotion intertwined. AlumaSquirrel's cinematic illustration serves as a bold backdrop to his verses.

The Last Coyote Story takes us to the land and time of Coyote, the famous trickster, in a story about how Coyote himself was tricked by a beautiful woman. It is both written and illustrated by Jonas.

Motion of the Ocean sails off to the Caribbean for a romantic cruise. In this comic by Fluke, one of the ship's entertainment crew goes a bit beyond the call of duty to entertain one of the cruise guests.

Don't Blink rounds out our trip with an escape from reality to a world where superheroes live among us. Author Kyell Gold brings us a story of a young coyote who is learning to live (and to love) with his new-found abilities — and all the complications that come with. The cast of heroes and villains are illustrated by Cooner.

And finally, in this issue our refrigerator takes a voyage of its own to Japan, where devious monks have rearranged the poetry magnets into various virile verses of haiku.