Issue 23

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Table of Contents: 10 / 31 → “Remembering the Future” by John Klima → “The Art Disease” by Dennis Danvers (short story) 11 / 7 → “Dancing in the Winter Rooms” by David Tallerman (short story) 11 / 14 → “Fastening” by Patricia Russo (short story) → “The Last Patrol” by Tara Barnett (poem) 11 / …

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“Through the Uprights” by Richard Butner

“I want to kick a field goal,” Robin said. He didn’t say: I want to learn how to kick a field goal. Robin wasn’t process-oriented. He wanted to be the sort of person with the ability to kick field goals. He wanted to do all kinds of extraordinary things, but he had never mentioned football …

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“The Empire Never Ended” by Brian Trent

Glabrio knelt at the shoreline, washing his bearded face in the wine-dark sea, when he heard the enemy skyship give one final groan. Two hundred yards away the metallic red hulk was still smoking, half-submerged in the Mediterranean like an unsightly island, one wing jutting to the heavens, the forked tail like a wishbone. Then …

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Content TKTK: A n00b’s Guide to Speculative Fiction Poetry by John Ottinger III

If you are anything at all like me, you and poetry have passed like ships in the night: Lights on, blaring your horns, and doing your able best to avoid one another. Sure, you read some poetry during your school years, but much of it was either really, really old or so new it just …

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2011 Nebula Award Nominations Open

We can’t imagine anyone who reads this site doesn’t know about the Nebula Awards, but in case you didn’t, the 2011 version of the Nebula awards are now open for nomination! You need to be either an active or an associate member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) in order to …

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“∞°” by Darin Bradley

Special thanks to Charles A. Tan for helping get this page set up!

Two Poems by Alexandra Seidel

Her Mother’s Bees by Alexandra Seidel A girl covered in nothing but a scarf of a thousand thousand bees and the bees feasting on her like they would on a flower extracting nectar from her pores, her scented skin the buzzing lifts the air; it floats and settles around your head like a cauldron, upside …

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“A Reason to Fear Life, a Reason to Crave Death” by Andrew Kaye

I. A bitter wind whipped around Ortega’s body, dusting him with a flurry of ash. He cursed. The words were lost, drowned in the whirr of stabilizers and the whine of steam turbines. Ortega drew his coat in tighter, pulled his scarf up over his face. Another, stronger gust caused the freighter to lurch, and …

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Slight alteration in TOC: Issue 23

We had originally planned to publish John Ottinger’s TKTK piece today, however, we’ve changed our schedule a bit. The new publication dates are as follows: 11 / 28 → “A Reason to Fear Life, A Reason to Crave Death” by Andrew Kaye (short story) → “Her Mother’s Bees” & “The Girl and Her Cloud” by …

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Blindfold Taste Test with Alex Irvine

What is your favorite food? The cheeseburger. What was your most memorable meal? One that comes to mind is an epic feast with a bunch of Del Rey and Random House people at Nobu in San Diego. The ceviche… the Kobe beef slices over hot rocks… oh God. What is the most unusual thing you’ve …

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“Fish out of Water” by Deborah Fitchett

Saturday, June 26, 2pm I spent the morning on the computer and found three websites the wizard might be interested in. He asked me why I’d only found three and what else I’d been doing, and what sort of a witch will I turn out to be if I can’t remember what I’ve done just …

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