Cover Illustration by Lee Kuruganti © 2006
*Stories with this sign * have some profanity, discretion is advised*
FLASH
Man's Best Friend by Timbo Fisch - Jack and his beloved Delia took their usual sunset walk in the woods. She walked off-leash now. For years, she had pulled for the woods when they reached forest's edge.
Cloak in the Storm by Robert Brian Newbill and Theresa Cecilia Garcia - Have you ever tried to walk through wind so strong that you could hardly move? I hadn't, until that morning.
First Day on the Job by Theresa Cecilia Garcia - She dreamed again about calculating the cost of all the necessaries and stared anxiously at the monotonous road; reckoning and wondering what the conclusion would be.
STORIES
In Bluebeard's Castle by Alison J. Littlewood - When Blaine left the company and the noise to sit at the kitchen table with me, I thought he was looking for the wine.
Awakening by Wendy Williams - At first it was just a blur of amber and yellow amid a sea of black. Then it started becoming clear to Jaime that these were the colors of autumn.
SCIENCE FICTION
RETICULUM RHOMBOIDALIS * by E.S. Strout - “Look at this, Marty.” Julie Prentiss gulped black coffee from a styroform cup, made a face, then tapped a fingernail on a tachyon transmitted CRT image from the interplanetary probe NEPTUNE IV. “Pretty exciting stuff on The Net from the Astronomy Division folks.”
NON-FICTION
Key Memories by Beverly Ohlendorf - I'm in a contemplative mood as a sit down to the piano. My son and his girlfriend just called with the fantastic news that they became engaged a few minutes ago.
POETRY
Rage Does Stand Between Reason and the Naked Flame by Anthony Bernstein
Death they Found by Theresa Cecilia Garcia
Layers of Gold by Saulander Evans
There is a Feeling in the Air by C. W. Smith
I loved you Once by Theresa Cecilia Garcia
Knower's Bind by Jeremy J
Invisible by Theresa Cecilia Garcia
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