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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

Volker
M. C. Fuller
A young man with remarkable extra-sensory abilities must find a way to defeat the evil god, Regina, and save the world.

Order of the Sun
McCamy Taylor
A prequel to "Blood Red Rose" and "Vishnu's Beer Garden." As the Thirty Year War ravages Europe, a member of the Order of Malta finds himself cursed with a thirst for human blood. How does a crusader come to terms with being an abomination?

The Essential Nightwatch

Our review of pivotal episodes from the Nightwatch series continues with "Cardenio", the tale that put Stephanie Keel's painful history in the spotlight, and Part 1 of "The Kindness of Strangers", a two-part story in which the time-bending properties of the Dragon's Egg are tested — along with Simon Litchfield's courage and ingenuity…

Nightwatch: Cardenio
Kate Thornton
A lost Shakespearean play, a lost research station, and Stephanie Keel's lost past all converge in the steamy jungles of Amazonia. Simon Litchfield's khakis keep their impeccable crease as he, Tom Weldon, and Stephanie do battle over an incredible and ancient secret.

Nightwatch: The Kindness of Strangers - Part 1
Jeff Williams
Stuck in unfamiliar circumstances, Dr. Simon Litchfield tries to solve a mystery with little more to go on than the knowledge that 'something strange and dangerous' is happening—and that failure could mean the end of everything as he's known it.

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Short Stories

Dinner With Henry
Bruce Memblatt
Henry needed a job. Working for the never-seen woman along with her household staff of misfits and the maimed wasn't exactly ideal, but it had its moments.

First Blood
Sarah Deckard
Growing up without a father in the little village was hard for Galina and her mother. Things would get much more complicated when she became a woman…

Juliet and the Cowboys
Chris Sharp
Another tale in which the artifice of the theater intersects with the spirit world in surprising ways…

Memoirs of the First Chip-Child
Andrew Nash
They called him Lucas Newchild, the first infant to have memory- and thought-enhancing hardware implanted in his brain at birth. He spent his childhood like a lab rat, only gaining freedom when they changed his name and his face so he could go out into the world.

Some Paradigms Don't Shift
Jerrod Cotosman
Diaz fully expected the must-attend business presentation to be deadly dull and a waste of everybody's time. He was almost right.

The Exhibit
Frisco Macae
Bill Padinski didn't think much of the new exhibit at the Museum he guarded every night. It looked like an empty room with glaringly-white walls…

The Girl Who Lost Time
TN Dockrey
Francesca Adler wanted nothing more than to escape life in the small town, serving the whims of her brilliant but obsessive father. But then she became fascinated with his studies of the nature of Time.

The Last Revelation
Alex Granados
Marcus and Eliza were players — or vital pieces? — in a game thousands of years long.

The Persistence of Memory
Pedro Blas Gonzales
The scientists were prepared for some similarities between themselves and their clones. They never expected to be quite as close as they turned out to be.

The Tin City Good Deal
Kurt Heinrich Hyatt
Moondog, wandering scavenger extraordinaire, had a chance to score a sweet handgun and all the ammo he could carry (to say nothing of the girl). All he had to do was steal or scam some food from the 900-foot Tin City tower, with packs of half-feral children doing their best to kill him.

A Space War To End All Space Wars
Sergio Palumbo
Wars can be fought on many fronts, using many different weapons. Sometimes, even the most paranoid of warriors forgets that wars don't always have only two sides.

Results of Forum Flash Challenges for March 2010

The March 2010 Flash Challenge was an exercise in the fine art of Alternate History. Congratulations to Bill Wolfe, the challenge winner for March for his story Arty. This and six more tales of worlds that started out like ours, but then diverged… after checking out our other short and long fiction, poetry, the Editorial, etc., etc. Click HERE to view the rules and example story for the April Challenge.

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Poetry and Filk Music

A Form of Ashes
J B Hogan

A Warning
Bruce Whealton

Butterfly Effect #2
Richard Tornello

Nutritionally Correct Comfort Food for Fantasy Creatures
Robert William Shmigelsky

Entrance to an Ashram
Richard Tornello

Inexperienced Ranger #2
Robert William Shmigelsky

Last Moments
Jean Jones

The Cryptozoologist
J. Davidson Hero

Violated
Mike Berger

When Hunger Takes Me
Richard H. Fay

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #19: Brontosaurus Bones
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.

The Engine of Writing
Mark Edgemon
Mark Edgemon has a few thoughts of his own about writing. Ignore Adopt his advice at your peril!

Deadman Wonderland
McCamy Taylor
McCamy takes a look at Katoaka and Kondou's Deadman Wonderland, and muses on what appeals to her about manga in the first place.

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