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Issue 112 Volume 11 July 2007

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Editorial

Jeff Williams

We interrupt the Senior Editor's usual rants …


Serials and Novellas

On The Corner of Galaxy and Fifth
Part Four of Five
Rob Wynne and Jeffrey Williams
Trauma and his companions team up with an unlikely ally and devise a plan to try and rescue the damaged timestream.
(Read Part One, Part Two, and Part Three here.)

Nightwatch: Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes
Part Three of Three
Bill Wolfe
Simon and the Nightwatchers rush desperately to save the psychic child…
(Read Part One and Part Two, here.)

Grip Henshaw Goes To Hell
Hoagie DeFalco
When his commander told him to go to hell, Grip Henshaw did not think that he meant it literally.

Luna Rose
Nick Ragusa
The story of Amanda Pyner, a Horticulturist on the futuristic Luna Station. She's remarkably attractive and her work is important to the well-being of her peers. But she's having a hard time dealing with the day-to-day tasks of a lifeless Moon and is struggling to maintain a stable life there.

The Heart Of A Warrior
Dan Devine
Brandon can't believe his luck when he's sent on a mission with the woman he loves. Now would be the perfect time to win her heart, only Shara takes an unfortunate liking to the third member of their team while Brandon finds himself doubting whether the rebels he's supposed to be hunting are really his enemy…

Storylistener's Borning Work
Bill Gillard
Below the thunders of the upper deep - Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep - The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Short Stories

A Pocket Filled With Posies
Michele Dutcher
The Space Elevator stretched all the way from the surface of the Earth to geosynchonous orbit, with a few stops along the way. Those stops were small, self-contained— and much safer than the planet below, until…

Flight of the Dragon
Tara McFadden
Once, Auray's ancestors had spoken with dragons, enormous fire-breathing creatures that ruled the skies. Now the only dragons left in the world were hardly bigger than cattle, and were prey instead of predators. But everything would change if Silverwing's sacrifice proved worthwhile.

Insurgents
Joseph Vadalma
When the Spakerusm came and took over the world —for our own good, of course— factions that had been enemies for centuries joined to fight the outsiders. And in this fight, there were no rules.

Keepsake
Michelle Bobier
Great Aunt Ellen had been a strange one, and her house was stranger still. Now he had inherited the place, complete with Ellen's collection of peculiar herbs and… other things.

November
Philip Hamm
Jason Runner lived in a drug-induced limbo as punishment for the crime of trying to teach an unapproved version of history. But he was not the only one who knew the truth.

Off Road
Michael Loughrey
Billy Grockle had made two mistakes. The first was obtaining a god-awful excuse for transportation from Rent-a-Pod. The second was getting lost. Extremely lost.

Voyages of the EarthShip Horus: La Miria
Michael Joseph
The Horus and her motley crew came to La Miria mostly by accident— they needed supplies and parts to repair the ramshackle freighter if they wanted to stay in business. But La Miria turned out to be a very complicated place to visit.

Yagyalgo
Vincent Seagraves
There was oil in the deep water off the coast of Venezuela. But there was something else there, too, something older than the organisms whose corpses had been changed by the eons into black gold, something evil…

Results of Forum Flash Challenge for June 2007

Congratulations to Nate Kailhofer for grabbing a poll-topping 5 votes (out of 20) in the second-ever Forum Flash Challenge for his entry Larry the Lizard. This time the 9 entries were presented without author names to avoid any bias in favor of (or against) editors, Challenge-posers, etc. Check out Nate's entry and 8 more bite-size servings of fantasy, science fiction, and horror in the June 2007 Challenge! (Advance Notice: Nate says that there will be a new Challenge for July, online around July 8th…)

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Poetry and Filk Music

Paper Moon
by Seanan McGuire

An Evening Dress
by Richard Tornello

Resurrection
by James Matthew Byers

Scifaiku
by Richard H Fay

The Escape
by A.K. Sykora

Gotham, Oil on Canvas
by Michael Lee Johnson

An Astro-Naughty!
by Ana Bowlova

Love, Motion-Sickness, and Other Comatose States
by Bryon D. Howell

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Articles and features

The Listening Room: Stars Fall Home
By Rob Wynne
Rob reviews Seanan McGuire's debut studio album.

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