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Issue 125 Volume 12 September 2008

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

The Salvaged Account of Sir William Barrows
I. D. Weis
An alternative history about Leibniz, Louis XIV, parallel realities and ¿the best of all possible worlds?

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Short Stories

A Dragon's Tale
Ty Johnston
The dragon and the knight should have been enemies — after all, the first time they met, the knight had done his best to kill the beast — but time and circumstance can change a lot.

Alkyone
L. J. Geoffrion
Roy Fisher had two problems. First, he kept flipping back and forth between his life on the ramshackle space station unaffectionately known as the Tin Can and some antique horror show of a psych ward. And second, he had to figure out whether the new kid, Becker, was 'human', with normal empathy and ethics, or a psychopath.

Beyond Dreaming
Terry Larson
Kelvin Schneider's wife and best friend had been found in flagrante delicto — and murdered. The police didn't seem to be making much progress in solving the crime, so Kelvin decided to dig deeper on his own. But the more he learned, the more questions he raised.

Chatak's Bad Day
Dan Shelton
It was supposed to be a routine supply delivery, one that wouldn't even require a co-pilot. Then Chatak woke up with every system on her ship malfunctioning — and that was just the beginning of her troubles.

Epiphany
E. S. Strout
The plan was to extend the life of one of history's greatest artists. The result was… unexpected.

GOD's Website
Lee Gimenez
Michael's life is a mess. For comfort, he logs onto GOD's website for advice and absolution. The escalating donations aren't exactly helping with his financial problems, however.

Loose Contact
Sidney Toby
He had the feeling that he was being watched… and he was right.



The Battle for Greystone Castle: Beanie and the Cops
Michael J. Flanagan
Greystone Castle, the home Beanie and Satch had made for themselves and Kathy, was under siege again. And dealing with cops was trickier than dealing with Floaters.


Venus Genetrix
C. S. Malerich
Franz was sure that the brothel run by the woman who called herself Venus had something to do with the dead tourist found washed up on the beach. Something strange was going on there — the question was, what?

VirtuCom, Inc.
Kevin King
Add-Man was having a bad day online. Every game he entered was killing him off in ways that seemed to be either violations of the rules or outright bugs…

Results of Forum Flash Challenge for August 2008

Congratulations to Joseph Nichols, winner of the August 2008 Forum Flash Challenge.
Check out The First Step and seven more excursions into the lives of reluctant superheroes — after you read and comment on our other fine features, of course…
Visit the Forum Fun and Games area later this month for the NEXT challenge to your imagination and writing skills.

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Poetry and Filk Music

As A Prism
Michaela Sefler

Celestichthys
James Matthew Byers

Contact
Thomas D Reynolds

Grimm Reality
Mark Edgemon

Synopsis
Richard Tornello

The Fallen Niche Of Appollo
Holly Day

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #2: Your Grammar Is Eating The Neighbors
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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