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Issue 154 Volume 15 August 2011

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Editorial

Dan L. Hollifield

The Senior Editor's usual rants about whatever…


Serials and Long Fiction

Sorry, there was no new Long Fiction in this issue.

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Short Stories

A Loss of Humanity
Dan Devine
Fallin and his followers would do anything to stop the foreigners from corrupting their people forever changing their way of life. Of course, one man's corruption is another man's gift of 'civilization'…

Chump Change
Kate Thornton
The good ship Linda Rae had carried some peculiar cargo in its long and varied career. But going all the way to Toshiba to deliver a single coin was a first…

Ghost
Robyn Green
Eric found the strange, pale girl in the little cave only a hundred yards from his back yard. Obviously, she needed help — but for some reason, nobody else thought so.

Heartstone
Kurt Heinrich Hyatt
Mining the impossibly rare, impossibly precious heartstones on Dust Ball was risky business, so much so that good pilots were hard to come by. That's why ex-Terran Ranger Ernspiker was "volunteered" for the job when he literally fell into trouble on New Seattle.

Indistinguishable
Philip Roberts
Working the front security desk at the hospital wasn't Lloyd's job of choice, and that was before he met Frank Reynolds. Frank was there to protect an apparently dead man from the creatures that had made put him in the hospital morgue.

Offer Her The World
Kent Rosenberger
You know you're socially inept when despite being the richest man in the solar system, you can't find a woman to marry you — and you take dating advice from your bartender robot.

Slice
K. Bruce Justice
Timothy had always been…different. When his father saw just how different he was, he took him to Mother Gayle to hide in plain sight among the other special people in the traveling circus.

The Toll
H. R. Gillette
Glori had been her lord's best assassin until she rebelled and fled to the forest. Since then, she had defeated everyone he sent to kill her. But she had paid a price for survival, one that she might never live down.

Tunguska Retro
E. S. Strout
Karen Mosby and her team of geologists hoped to learn what had happened over Tunguska in 1908 studying traces left in the Siberian soil and rocks. The story that emerged from their findings and from old eyewitness accounts was … not what they expected.

Upload
T. Richard Williams
From their home in the Oort Cloud, four people would fold space to travel far beyond the Confederation. Two of them would be passengers, uploaded into and sharing bodies with volunteer hosts.

July 2011 Forum Flash Challenge

Congratulations to George T. Philibin (a.k.a. Megawatts), winner of the July 2011 Forum Flash Fiction Challenge. Check out George's "Nobody Understands" and seven more tales of characters trying to control the monsters within, after sampling this month's editorial, poetry, short stories, and long fiction, of course…

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Poetry and Filk Music

Disbelieveability-Jump Drive
Richard Tornello

Fires Of Heaven
Robert William Shmigelsky

A Gory Doll
Amit Parmessur

Last Thoughts of a Cosmic Fighter Pilot
Richard H. Fay

Out Of Africa
David Barber

Song Of Ulysses
Clinton Van Inman

Teacher of Learn
Robin B. Lipinski

To Thine Own Self… (Warning And Advice)
Jean Jones

Why Sunny Days Scare Me
Thomas Reynolds

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Articles and features

Thoughts on Writing #31: This Is Not A Race
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.

Retrograde: It Was The End Of The World As We Knew It, But Charleton Heston Felt Fine
Daniel C. Smith
Daniel fondly remembers two 1970s science-fiction film classes, Omega Man and Soylent Green

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