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Issue 145 Volume 14 July 2010

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

Vivian and the Dust
Ken Kraus
Vivian, a young trainee addicted to snorting mind-altering dust, is arrested for smuggling a rare ore from Titan's North Pole. The station doctor intervenes to help with her cure, but she soon learns that all her troubles lead to the station morgue where the hidden corpse of his lover appears to be regenerating.

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Short Stories

A World of Good
Kevin Gordon
The Large Hadron Collider had unleashed something that turned Europe into a firestorm that was consuming the world's oxygen far faster than natural processes could restore it. For the rest of the world, all that was left was survival, one day at a time.

Awakening
Roderick D. Turner
Jack's best ideas came to him in dreams. They made him the top man at the small advertising agency. But lately, the dreams had started to overlap with his real world.

Homer and The Goddess
Cary Semar
The poet and storyteller Homer had a few things to learn about the importance of pleasing his audience. For example, dismissing the existence of the Gods was a Very Bad Idea.

How Monsters Are Made
Jack Pettie
Dr. Waters had been working with Victor for months, trying to ease the effects of the still-secret childhood trauma that had haunted him for most of his life. But today, she would learn more than she ever wanted to know about him.

Immortality Bites
Ray Prew
Living forever was no guarantee of happiness. In fact, Tim Adler found it to be complicated and sad — at least every time he had to leave a family behind, or watch them die.

In The Icehouse
Dave Weaver
The ice core samples taken at the Antarctic research station provided vital evidence in the climate change debate. Unfortunately, it contradicted what the science team had been sent to prove. Now John Mathers had a choice to make between truth and survival.

Jenny Ogiwara and the AntiFems
Gary W. Feather
Captain Jenny Ogiwara and her band of mercenaries — the best of Gomez's Gals — had been sent in to deal with an AntiFem takeover of a mining town on the moon of a gas giant in the Miranda system. As always, the job was harder than the brass expected.

My Salieri Complex
Marina Julia Neary
Kemp had grown up sickly, an outcast, but had become a star among the students at University College in Victorian London. Then Griffin arrived, and made him seem almost ordinary — Griffin and his strange, secret project.

Sealed Away
Philip Roberts
Bill was working another long, cold night shift at the courier company when he found the unlabeled package. He didn't think much about it (although it was strangely warm) until it started to whisper to him.

Shift / Change
Roland Allnach
The new guy working the night shift at the morgue called himself John Smith. His reasons for being there were a little complicated — and related to the obscene side business run the other employees. *** Contains adult situations ***

Terra Incognita
E.S. Strout
They were trying to bend time as a way around the impossibility of moving faster than light. The side effects were…interesting.

The Edge of Tomorrow
Bruce Memblatt
The heart attack had killed Justin Clarke, for a minute or so. When he came back, his view of reality was … different.

The Navigator
Mark Ward
He had been a farmer, until the spider plague drove him from his land. Now a stranger wanted him to set sail on a mad voyage to the deepest waters known to man.

The Sound of Apples
Koos Kombuis
Desmond awoke with the extremely uncomfortable feeling that everything was spinning — not just the room, but the very earth beneath his feet. And that was just the beginning…

The Way of Children
Kristen Lee Knapp
The war was not going well. The sorcery used the invading Azbeki army, fuelled the lives of children, was too powerful. Mutan had to make a choice…

The Weaver of Gossamer Webs
jaimie l. elliott
The mender had been given an impossible task: heal the fractured mind of the vicious Tyrant, or die.

Results of Forum Flash Challenges for June 2010

Congratulations to Bill Wolfe, author of the favorite entry in the June 2010 Forum Flash Fiction Challenge. Check out "Only If You're Wrong" and six more tightly-focused tales of obsession — after reading the other fine stories, poems, features, etc., etc.

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Poetry and Filk Music

Black Leathery Wings
Richard H Fay

Eureka
Mike Berger

Gaia
Dave Weaver

Hawking Radiation
Richard Tornello

Metaphysics 101
Richard Tornello

Templar Castle
Robert William Shmigelsky

The Great Escape
Bruce Whealton

A Modern Day Van Helsing
Bruce Whealton

Thought For Food
Richard Tornello

The Three Stages of Wizard vs. Knight
Robert William Shmigelsky

Blisters
Sonnet Mondal

Bones In The Tiles
Lee Eric

Chainsaws Sharpened Here
Thomas Reynolds

Evil Thing
Mike Berger

Nightmares Fell My Fantasy
Richard H. Fay

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #22: Changing Time, Tone, and Type
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.

Bad Girls of Manga
McCamy Taylor
McCamy takes a look at Gokusen, Tokyo Crazy Paradise, Oresama Sensei, and Yankee-kun to Megane-chan

Aphelion Review: Boneshaker
Dan Hollifield
Dan dives into Cherie Priest's latest Clockwork Century novel.

Convention Wisdom: Libertycon 23
Dan Hollifield
Once again, Libertycon touched down in scenic Chattanooga. Our ace reporter Dan Hollifield filed this report…

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