Issue: September 2005

Letter to an Overly Ambitious Alien Chef of the Future

Leon D’ Razi’chn
Chef and Owner
X’Rstys Restaurant
The Caltog Quadrant
My dear Leon,
Such a pleasure to dine at your charming establishment the other day—as you promised, delightful location, just lovely, particularly for the [...]

How Not To Be Turned Into a Frog

The wonderful thing about writing about religion is that you are guaranteed certain outcomes:
1) You will get something wrong, even if it’s just the spelling of your name.
2) You will [...]

The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks

A contemporary adventure novel.

The Dybbuk in Love, by Sonya Taaffe

An elegantly written chapbook.

Override

They’re not cruel men. They just got a budget to make. Even these days it costs to hoist a man up out the blue. Multiply that by a hundred twenty [...]

The Road to Ever After

Once upon a
Time again. Coachman hears one of Folk calling, rises up out of pondwater, falls down from moonlight, makes use of rat or toad or whatever dark, secret creature [...]

A Bedtime Story

Once upon a time, when you were very small, you met a monster. At first you were scared, because all you saw were green scales and tentacles, and gaping jaws [...]

Utilizing the Unexpected

At thirty, everybody dies.
Okay. Not really; this isn’t Logan’s Run. But sometimes in speculative fiction, it can seem like it. Mystery is the genre of the mature protagonist, while science fiction [...]

The Youngest

The knife whistled through the stale air and thudded blade first an inch deep into the worn wood of the far wall. The boy stepped forward, re-gripped the hilt and [...]