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Issue 113 Volume 11 August 2007

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

On The Corner of Galaxy and Fifth
Part Five 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, Part Three, and Part Four here.)

Magic And The Heart
Part One of Four
McCamy Taylor
Magic is easy. The human heart is much more difficult to master. This is what Prince Marc of Suunland discovers when he enlists the aid of a powerful magician —who was once his mother's lover— to help him find his younger brother who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Phantasmagoria
Daniel William Gonzales
The son of a legendary astronaut embarks on a space mission and is sucked into a wormhole which propels him to the future, Earth a hundred years later in which he finds alien to him.

The Song Of Skybrooks
Matt Spencer
Can Roger's strange powers help Sylvia to shed the demons of her past… or has she led him to an ancient woodland menace not even he can withstand?

Dragons Over Bastrop
Frank Minogue
When the earth's delicate balance is tipped by global warming, an ancient threat re-emerges. As the world faces Armageddon from the skies, an unlikely hero emerges in central Texas.

One Way
Andrew Kiraly
Biology is not destiny—or is it? There is more than one way to rebel against the expectations of society, as the clone of an infamous rock star proves.

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Short Stories

The Momma on the Beach
Chris Sharp
Sebastion had a unique way of looking at the world. This was partly because he was Greek, but mainly because his world was unique…

Talking to Stones
Joel Doonan
With the so-called 'creators' gone, City Twenty Three was dying. Tad, Jarvis, and the rest of the 'created' must search for Eden, a half-remembered paradise — or die with the abandoned City.

Safety Dance
G. C. Dillon
He thought he was just another office drone, but he was wrong. The wakizashi and tanto felt familiar in his hands, and that was enough for Megrim the sorceror and Janel the Pixie to draft him for this crucial battle against the feathered-serpent Theropods.

Shotgun Christmas
James M. Black
It pissed Mac off that he had to work the bar alone on Christmas Eve. Not that Christmas meant anything to him, but it didn't mean that much to the rest of his staff, either. But his night turned out to be anything but 'silent'…

RNA
Gary Beck
The injury pretty much guaranteed that his undistinguished career as a professional ballplayer was over. The tier-three health coverage was better than nothing, but not by much. The Registered Nurse's Aide assigned to oversee his recovery, however, looked damn fine.

Billy Goes to Hell
M. Grant Baker
After Heaven rejected him, William Deck figured he was in for a Hell of a time. But he could never have expected what he found — down there.

A Fight in the Bloody Angles While I Do Dishes
Chris Allen Clark
There's more than one way to travel in time, and more than one reason to do it. Even the mud and blood of a Civil War battlefield can be appealing under the right circumstances…

Chef
Coffee Anderson
Abelardo Quiñones was the head chef of a five-star restaurant. He was also practically a slave to the ruthless gang that ran the Distrito Federál. But if his plans worked, all that would change.

The Morning Place
Mary Brunini McArdle
Andy's was not a 'morning person', at least not by choice. But rising earlier than usual turned out to be worthwhile, one time, at least.

Murderers Anonymous
Aaron Bass
For some, the urge to kill —and the thrill of giving in to that urge— was an addiction. But it was dangerous, so much so that the inevitable happened — they formed a self-help group.

Turning Over A New Leaf
Gareth D. Jones
Change is the only constant in the universe. But in a place like the Mare Inebrium, would anyone really notice?

Congratulations to Jaimie L. Elliott and David Alan Jones, co-winners (it was a tie) of the July 2007 Challenge! Check out Hope Beyond the Sunset, Illegal Alien, and four more snack-sized morsels of twisty goodness in the July 2007 Challenge (after you read and comment on our other fine features, of course)... And check the Fun and Games folder of the Forum around August 8th for another impossible mission in the Flash zone!

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Poetry and Filk Music

Cheney,Cheney, Lying Might
Richard Tornello

The Minotaur's Motif
James Matthew Byers

Horrorku
Richard H Fay

Outsider
Ana Bowlova

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Articles and features

The Listening Room: Less Than Art (10th Anniversary Edition)
Seanan McGuire
Seanan gives a spin to the reissue of Ookla The Mock's 1997 debut.

Dan Hollifield Reviews:The American Zone
by L. Neil Smith

Writing On The Edge of the Wood: The Fool's Journey
Gwen Knighton
In this essay on writing, Gwen Knighton considers the virtues of eccentricity.

Conventional Wisdom: Libertycon 20
Dan Hollifield
Dan reports on his trip to Chatanooga for the 20th Libertycon.

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