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Issue 100 Volume 10 February 2006

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Editorial

Dan Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serialised stories and Long Fiction

To Learn A Sword
Orestes Ramos
What would you do if the mean-spirited son of your town's ruler got away with everything? Would you be fearful for your life and stand and do nothing? To do that would be to allow it to go on*
This is one chronicler's recounting of the early events in the life of Lazarus, who would grow up one day to be one of Tierrah's greatest champions.

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Short Stories

A Matter of Honor
Robert Moriyama
The Countess Lamia, direct heir of Vlad Tepes, has been challenged by an opponent she fears might actually defeat her. But if Al Majius will fight as her Champion, her reign may continue. Given the stakes (no pun intended), Al agrees to take on the job. If only the ceremonial garb would stop creeping up…

Albino Alligator
George T. Philibin
Power politics can be a bloody business, alligator power politics in the Everglades even more so. But a great leader understands the value of friendship, and Tudlow was a great leader.

Handy Dandy Gets His Candy
Frederick Rustam
The only suspect in the murder of Sensorman Sonny Hales was incapable of harming anyone. At least that was the theory…

Nature's Way
Don Traverso
Tim Trent loves his wife Dora (the former Dora Redfield), in spite of her bizarre family traditions. He also loves the thriving Redfield farms, and is determined to make them even more prosperous once they pass into his and Dora's hands. If only he could get rid of the damn cicadas, things would be perfect.

Red Arrow
Rob Starr
To Nelson, the drifter was a romantic figure, the last of his tribe (even if he wasn't a Chief, as he claimed), and what he saw in the grove of trees just proved how badly his people had been treated. The police, on the other hand, saw things differently.

Song of Steam Lungs, Part 2
D. D. H. Lee
Franz thought the sniper Wesley was a fine fellow — strange, to be sure, with his talk of listening to metal, but always interesting. But Wesley had secrets deeper and darker than Franz could have imagined.

A Fish Out of Water
Linda Kelly
Some bars don't know how to deal with a patron who is obviously drugged out of their mind, but at the Mare Inebrium, intoxication is just a state of mind…

Deus Ex Machina
Wishbone
You'd would think that having proved that some planet's major deity was actually an alien Sociology Professor would be enough for one student's lifetime. But now Robert Landis had to survive the wrath of the disillusioned natives he'd "inconvenienced" with his secular revelation.

The Best of 2005

The Jazz-Jazz
Dan Edelman

The Lost Days
G. C. Dillon

Of Blood and Fire
David Alan Jones

The Yellow Leaf
Joel Doonan

Uncle… Uncle
Rob Starr

Quintessence
I. D. Weis

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Poetry and Filk Music

Crash
Gary William Crawford

Me and My Shadow
Daniel C Smith

Moss
Cynthia Betsinger

New Adam
David Alan Jones

Notches
Matthew Menze

Carnival of Freaks
Tom Reynolds

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