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Issue 107 Volume 10 December 2006 - January 2007

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Editorial

Dan Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Novellas

Nightwatch: Sed Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
Part Two (of Three)

Bill Wolfe
Nightwatch isn't the only organization watching the world. The Collective—an organized group of powerful psychics—has been watching them! But when one of their own goes missing, who else but Nightwatch can they turn to for help? Who else, indeed?
A new shared universe series: Nightwatch, under the direction of Jeff Williams.

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Short Stories

An Alien Encounter of the Worst Kind
Joe Vadalma
Bob Jones had heard about the whole alien-abduction thing, and he'd always figured that it was a crock. Then he was taken — and worse, he was never going home. But what really got to him was having to compete with representative of other species for the title of Dominant Earth Life Form — and losing!

Blue Roses
J. A. Howe
Tab was fighting a losing battle against the changes that were forcing plants, animals — and even humans — to adapt or die. The 'antique' flowers and plants she cultivated were failing, while strange and deadly variants spread across the world. But maybe it was time for her to change, on her terms.

Boundaries
Rob Bignell
Tombaugh Research Station was a marvel in its own right, a three-acre self-contained environment with pocket versions of everything from high desert to rain forest. Its location on the surface of Pluto was even more remarkable. But five light-hours from Earth, problems that would be minor back at home could be lethal…

Cold Stone Killer
Craig Cornwell
Dave Handel, the detective with the door to anywhere and anywhen, is called in to investigate the suspicious death of a big Philistine named Goliath. And matters are a lot more complicated than the version that made it into the Bible…

Dreaming of the Dreamers
Tamara Wilhite
Much of the world was a radioactive ruin, and a lot of knowledge had been lost to the electromagnetic pulse effects of the war. But the Dreamer transformation —a genetic surgery that let a human swim and communicate with dolphins— was still available in a few places, and Naya was more than ready to make the leap.

Go On, Go There
Ben Ayers
Was he sick? Or was he just changing? And was there anything he could do to stop it?

Memories of Sky
Michael McNichols
When the vampire William tired of the whole seduction and feeding game — and a loss of control that drove him to kill someone he loved, he looked for a way out. The living alien spacecraft he found and salvaged gave him a way to withdraw — all the way to Mars. Of course, Mars had its own challenges.

The Tree
Jeffrey Swencki
Abe Jones was a special boy with a remarkable connection to his favorite tree and to the birds and animals that lived near. The prospect of moving away —of being uprooted— was not a happy one. But even the trees and animals knew he had to go.

The Turks
Derek Davis
Brad and Lucy Harrington were doing their best to live their lives as usual, while the Turks lay siege to the walled city of Philadelphia. But the arms race was moving at an incredible pace — from crossbows to flintlocks in a matter of weeks — and they lived a little too close to the wall to ignore the huge cannonballs that fell in the neighborhood. And when the wall was breached…

Under New York…
George T. Philibin
Sam and Bert were veteran sewer workers. When the opportunity came for some lucrative overtime finding a blockage in the labyrinth of tunnels under New York City, they jumped at the chance. Then things got very complicated. And then they got even worse.
***Contains adult language***

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Poetry and Filk Music

The Loom
Teri Wachowiak

All for Me Swag
Rob Wynne and Bill Sutton

The Traveller
Penny Cockrell

Warrior's Fate
Byron Wheatley

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