We recently freed our short-fiction-contest troll from his five-year captivity in the River Cities' Reader dungeon, and based on the rules he devised for the 2012 competition, he's grumpy. (Some might note that Jeff is always grumpy, but never mind.)

Let's start with the easy rules.

To download a pdf of the puzzle, click here.

For the answers, click here.

For the answers to last week's puzzle, click here.

To download a pdf of the puzzle, click here.

For the answers, click here.

For the answers to last week's puzzle, click here.

This page links to the River Cities' Reader's complete coverage of the 2012 Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, including new interviews with seven of this year's performers and biographies of each artist.

Ticket information is here. The welcome letter from the Mississippi Valley Blues Society president is here. Biographies of workshop and BlueSKool leaders who are not performing on either the Bandshell or Tent stages are here.