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Issue 144 Volume 14 June 2010

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

The Receptive Ocean
Robert L. Read
A family of humans and dolphins trying to survive in the polluted Gulf of Mexico, are caught in a war between land and sea.

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Short Stories

A Rabbit's Tale
William Dexter Wade
In which an intrepid rabbit faces a terrifying monster with glowing eyes (and eighteen wheels).

Call For Dave
Dave Weaver
The voice in Dave Clayton's head was real, claimed to be from the future, and had a very important task for him to perform.

Change Is Hard
Jonathan Saville
Thomas Eberle was an ordinary guy, with a wife, children, and hyperactive dog. But his relationship with 'grandmother' Chen made him unusually well qualified to recognize signs that a dragon was in town.

Don't Tax Black Magic!
Gary W. Feather
Gao's job as village guard leader also made him the local tax collector, an unpleasant task at the best of times. But collecting from Old Lady Ko, reputed to be a powerful sorceress, was downright dangerous.

Grandfather's Axe
Daniel Ribot
Bernard Foswick-Pfaltz thought he had the perfect way to get away with murder — teleport, and cease to be the man who had committed the crime. Dr. Malcolm Brook hoped to prove him wrong, explaining the principle of 'Grandfather's Axe'.

Hell Hound
Brian Lo Rocco
Barry's friend Colin was younger, more successful, and was married to a woman Barry had wanted for himself. Still, when Colin asked for his advice about how to explain that a small, blob-like fish had apparently eaten a young woman, Barry couldn't say no.

Inky Beast
M. J. Nicholls
The Chief Editor at Scalped Olives Publications knew that most of the books the company released were crap. This was not surprising as they were all written members of the not-very-talented editorial staff. But even he was surprised the nature — and the source — of the worst reviews they would ever receive.

Interface
Rick Huffman
John Morphy was having fun as the "cybernetic man" — the first one to test-drive the company's new active-transponder implant. It made him feel like the computers around him were an extension of his own mind and body…

The Moonshine Monarch and the Elm
P. F. White
Lucas Black had re-upped to serve in Vietnam three times, until a wound that left him limping had sent him home for good. Now he was home — but home was turning out to be as strange and terrible as anything in the jungle.

The Visitor
Natalie J E Potts
Matthews was content to work at home in his flannelette "comfort work trousers", and live there, too, rarely moving from the chair in front of his computer. The sociability counselor hired Matthews's employer to protect their employees from their own reclusive impulses hoped to change all that.

Turning Point
Kevin Gordon
Ruche found his job boring for the most part, controlling thousands of clones as they performed most of the scutwork and the fighting for the good ship LN-33. But then his commander ordered him to use the clones as suicide pilots…

Results of Forum Flash Challenges for May 2010

The May 2010 Flash Challenge was to write a tale centering around either aliens or alien archaeology, or both. (Fertile ground, with potsherds aplenty!) Read the winning story, "From Antarctica With Love", by G. C. Dillon, and eight more tales of things found under rocks (or ice), after reading the other fine stories, poems, features, etc., etc.

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Poetry and Filk Music

Cigar
Lester Curtis

Dark Knight's Sword
Robert William Shmigelsky

Eulogy
Richard Tornello

Exotic New Particle
Mike Berger

Fetus
Stephanie Smith

Glimmering Embers
Richard H Fay

Nightmares of Mrs. Adams
June Nandy

Spacer's Song
TN Dockrey

The Bear
Jean Jones

The Name
Bruce Whealton

Thumb in the Eye of the Gods
Richard Tornello

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #21: Magpie Moments
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.

More Manga That Should Be Licenced In The US
McCamy Taylor
McCamy takes a look at Takemitsu Zamurai, and gives some pointers for attending Anime conventions.

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