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Issue 172 Volume 17 April 2013

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

Good Night, Timmy
Rick Grehan
Timmy can't talk, and he does not have any friends. However, that is about to change, thanks to an extra-terrestrial artifact.

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Short Stories

A Dream of Waking
Sam Best
Jacob awoke in a plastic coffin, with tubes and wires invading his body. He could hear screaming from somewhere nearby. Where was he? And how could he get out?

Cold Storage
E. S. Strout
The sample returned by the deep space probe carried intriguing traces of elements and compounds that could answer many questions about the origins of the universe. But it also carried something potentially deadly.

Credo: Antiope's Gloom
Copper Sloane Levy
The kid was alone in the wasteland, pursued an army of monsters led a demigod. All he had was magic — and six-guns.

Henchmen Academy
Spencer Carvalho
Every mad scientist and super-villain has them — a bunch of (expendable) footsoldiers to do the dirty work. But where do they all come from? The Henchmen Academy, of course.

Kendall and Half of the Moon
Otilia Tena
Gwenda was charmed by Evan, one of her students at the boarding school where she had just started as a literature teacher. Evan's older brother, Kendall, was more than charming — and he was a magician. Was his magic real, or only an illusion?

Legacy
I. Verse
After millenia living as a cyborg, with only a couple of kilograms of brain tissue remaining of her original body, Meera was tired. She chose to have her consciousness transferred into a flesh-and-blood — and mortal — body so she could return home and die. But even the plans of immortals can go wrong…

The Interview
Matthew S. Dent
Mark Slater really needed the job. So when the interviewer said that he only needed to pass one last test to clinch the position, he had to agree to it, no matter what it was…

The Machine Fink
Mike Phillips
The metal recycling plant was suffering through a series of bizarre and sometimes deadly accidents. Fritz, well-versed in the lore of factory and farm, figured they had a malevolent guest sabotaging the works.

Results of Forum Flash Challenge for April 2013

Congratulations to Sergio (ente per ente) Palumbo, winner of the "Superhero Bob" challenge. Click HERE to read the winning story, "Georgia on Their Mind", and two more stories of, well, superheros named Bob. (As a bonus, Michelle Dutcher posted a story after the announcement of the winner which, alas, did not meet the Ice Gnome's specifications, but was too good to dump in the Trunk of Unplaced Tales.)

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Poetry and Filk Music

It's Dark In Here
Robin B. Lipinski

Let There Be Light!
Iain Muir and Mark Edgemon

Lilith Beneath The Moon
Stephen Jarrell Williams

Morbidly Old Beast
Mark Edgemon

Morning Surprise Attack
Richard Tornello

The Unicorn in Captivity
J. Davidson Hero

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #47: Different Strokes
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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