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Issue 170 Volume 17 February 2013

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

Sugarhouse
Adam "Bucho" Rodenberger

A psychological horror piece about a man with amnesia who can’t form new memories. By day, his wife tries to help him get better, but each night he forgets all that he has learned the day before. Who is the mystery girl who visits him each night, and what is her role in his amnesia?

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Short Stories

Grandpa's Tale
Ben Revermann
The young man visited his grandfather for two reasons: first, because everybody else seemed to have forgotten the old man, now dying from colon cancer; and second, because the relative quiet and slow pace of the nursing home was a relief after the noise and chaos of the real world. Grandpa's revelation of a long-held secret was a bonus.

Here Be Dragon
Dave Weaver
Prince Cedric and his crew came to Honalee to deal with the dragon that was terrorizing the people. He had his doubts about how truly dangerous the beast was, but he had to carry out his duty as his father's representative.

New Weapons
Mike Wilson
Patrick's secret invention was a weapon that not only disintegrated its target, it scattered the atoms across time. Rob's project was just intended to prove a hypothesis. The fact that it displaced its target a huge distance in no time at all was just a side effect. What were the two of them doing in the same small town? And why did their paths keep crossing?

Seventh Tower
D. S. Tierney
Grint had robbed six of the Towers used as temples the priests of the Papality. He was a natural choice to lead a team into a seventh Tower, in search of treasure. The niece and nephew of the man who had hired him, and a demon in a human shell, on the other hand, made no sense at all.

Zip Code 93949
Richard Tornello
The unexpected guests arrived at Alex's little bed-and-breakfast in Woodstock, New York with a handsome orange cat and a flat-out gorgeous rebuilt Model A Ford truck. And the longer they stayed, the weirder they seemed.

December 2012 Forum Flash Challenge

Congratulations to Rick Tornello, winner of the December 2012 Forum Flash Fiction Challenge. Check out Rick's tale "Christmas Bash" and three more stories of holiday comedy.

January 2013 Forum Flash Challenge

Congratulations to Rick Tornello (again?), winner of the January 2013 Forum Flash Fiction Challenge. Check out Rick's tale "Rose Colored Glasses" and three more stories of monochrome worlds.

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Poetry and Filk Music

Alien Dandruff
Robin B. Lipinski

The Coming of Man
John Grey

Frankenstein
Clinton Van Inman

gynoide fatale
J. Davidson Hero

The Lost Art of Letter-Writing
Benjamin Blake

Madrid Falls Again
Richard Tornello

The Midsummer Night Scream
Jonas Birge

Second Contact
Thomas Reynolds

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #45: You Brilliant Hack, You
Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire takes apart the engine of writing to find out how it works, and offers her insights into how to put it back together again.

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