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"Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if you stare long enough into the Abyss, the Abyss stares also into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, chapter 4, no. 146

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Issue #27: 3rd Quarter 2008

Fiction:
•   The Number of Angels in Hell by Joanne Steinwachs
•   Vainamoinen and the Singing Fish by Marissa K. Lingen
•   Praxitales by Nye Joell Hardy
•   Walking Across The Bomb by Alexandra MacKenzie
•   The Green Infinity by Camille Alexa
•   The Night The Stars Sang Out My Name by Ken Scholes

Poetry:
•   •   Odysseus On The War Train by Rose Lemberg
•   •   Side Show Sally by Tracie McBride
•   •   Hives by Elizabeth Penrose
•   •   Three Poems Called Cosmic by JM McDermott
•   •   Think by Suzanne Sykora
•   •   Pavlov's Best Friend by Kristine Ong Muslim
•   •   Shears by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
•   •   Two Haiku by Frances W. Alexander
•   •   LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS by Kendall Evans


Issue #26: 2nd Quarter 2008
•   One Wicker Day by Andrew S. Fuller
•   Wolfling by Laura Anne Gilman
•   Xenosomnambulism by Lawrence M. Schoen
•   Ghosts of Cretaceous Park by Larry Hodges
•   Disarm by Vylar Kaftan


Issue #25: 1st Quarter 2008
•   Snatch Me Another by Mercurio D. Rivera
•   If Tears Were Wishes by Ruth Nestvold
•   Healer by Phil Margolies
•   At Blue Crane Falls by Brian Dolton
•   Quartet, With Mermaids by Alan Smale
•    And poetry by Justin Howe and M. Frost.


Issue #24: 4th Quarter 2007
•   Metamorphoses In Amber by Tony Pi
•   Looking Out For Number One by Patrick Hudson
•   Love And Death In The Time Of Monsters by Frank Wu
    This story has been podcast at Escape Pod.
•   Under The Blue Curve by Mark A. Rayner
•   Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel
•    And poetry by Robin M. Mayhall, Gwen Campbell, and Robin M. Mayhall again.


Issue #23: 3rd Quarter 2007
•   Being Blue by Shane Nelson
•   Turning Time by David Sakmyster
•   Freeing Teresa by JD Paradise
•   Poetry Editorial by Trent Walters and poems by Rachel Swirsky, Kristin Ong Muslim, Janet Parkinson, Norman Bell, Duane Locke, Marcie Tentchoff, Stefanie Maclin, and Darin Bradley.


Issue #22: 2nd Quarter 2007
•   Pinny by M. Keaton
•   Hour By Hour by Lindsey Duncan
•   Weepers and Ragers by Aliette de Bodard
•   Diminished Capacity by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
•   And Saturn Below by Wade Ogletree
•   The Road To Heather Cove by Richard A. Lovett
•   The Devil You Know by Heidi Wessman Kneale
•   Poetry Editorial by Trent Walters and poems by Alveraz Ricardez, Kyle Hemmings, Elizabeth Barrette, Kaori Praschak, John Fyffe, Marie Vibbert, Pam McNew, and William Trowbridge.


Issue #21: 1st Quarter 2007
•   Stories of the Alien Invasion by Manek Mistry
•   Walking The Valley by Jeremy Minton
•   Bittersweet by N. K. Jemison
•   The Memory of Touch by Karen Swanberg
•   The Man Behind The Curtain by Joseph Paul Haines
•   Ten New Metaphors for Cyberspace by Cat Rambo
•   Fading Away by Jay Lake
•   Poetry by Greg Beatty, Marge Simon, T. R. Click, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Robert Saunders, Deborah P. Kolodji, oino sakai, William Blake Vogel III, Lyn Gardner, Christopher Vera.


Issue #20: 4th Quarter 2006
•   Godspeed Inc. by Vincent Miskell
•   The Man Who Was Never Afraid by Brian Dolton
•   The Knife by Jason L. Corner
•   Nomad by Karl Bunker
•   The Heaviest Dream by M. Kate Havas
•   A Fool's Death by Lawrence M. Schoen
•   Poetry by Phillip A. Ellis, Patricia Kelly, Anthony Bernstein, Wesley Lambert, Rie Sheridan Rose, and George Freek.


Issue #19: 3rd Quarter 2006
•   Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-Four Days by Vylar Kaftan
•   New Spectacles by Will McIntosh
•   Ageless by Aaron Callow
•   Interfaith by Lisa Mantchev
•   The Ghosts of Los Hellas by RJ Astruc
•   Goddess by Jon Hansen
•   Small Change by Mikal Trimm
•   Poetry by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Rio Le Moignan, KJ Kirby, Amal El-Mohtar,
    Elizabeth Barrette, Amber Jillene Yoo and Greg Beatty


Issue #18: 2nd Quarter (April) 2006
•   All the Wonder in the World by Lavie Tidhar
•   When Maxwell's Demon Met Schrödinger’s Cat by Jack Hillman
•   Becoming by Rae Dawn Carson
•   Emmett, Joey & the Beelz by Ralph Sevush
•   Unicorn’s Rest by Jill Knowles
•   Nanoflakes by James S. Dorr
•   Poetry by Larry Hammer, A. J. Luxton, s.c.virtes, Bruce Boston, Christopher Vera, Marge Simon
    Rich Magahiz and assu


Issue #17: 1st Quarter (January-February) 2006
•   In The Season of Blue Storms by Jude-Marie Green
•   Douen Mother by R. S. Garcia
•   The Winter Astronaut by Mark Patrick Lynch
•   Flood by Jennifer Pelland
•   The Last Temptation of Humanity by Paul Woodlin
•   A Clockwork Break by Shawn Scarber
•   Poetry by Karen A. Romanko, Rachel Swirsky, s.c.virtes, Julia Sevin, Samantha Henderson, Deborah P. Kolodji
    and ushi, and Rich Magahiz


Issue #16: 4th Quarter (November-December) 2005
•   The Dream of Rain by Constance Cooper
•   Sumo21 by Daniel Braum
•   Zeno's Last Paradox by Tony Pi
•   The Relativity Prison by Igor Teper
•   American Gothic by Douglas W. Clark
•   The Difference Between Fiction and Life by Bruce Holland Rogers
•   Poetry by Mikal Trimm, Mark Gilbert, Mike Allen, Jon Hansen, Constance Cooper, Jennifer Crow,
    David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Yoon Ha Lee, and Robin Pommier


Issue #15: 3rd Quarter (October) 2005
•   Long Man by E.N. Wilson
•   Museum Beetles by Simon Kewin
•   The Many Faces of Lisa Adorn by Matthew Kressel
•   Coming Home by Deborah Fitchett
•   Custody by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
•   The Frozen People by Danny Adams
•   Poetry by Tim Jamieson, Deborah P Kolodji, Greg Beatty and Christopher Vera


Issue #14: 2nd Quarter (April) 2005
•   Next by Patrick Samphire
•   The Station With No Name by Justin Stanchfield
•   Flensing Detritus by Steve Vernon
•   Mother's Condition: A Caustic Experiment by Laura Cooper
•   What They Wanted by M.K. Hobson
•   Kingdom of Dust & Steel by Yoon Ha Lee
•   in the by Peter Roberts
•   a plan by Eric Marin


Issue #13: January-February 2005
•   Variables by Matthew Cheney
•   The Barrow Man by Lisa Batya Feld
•   Pan de Oro by J. Stern
•   Erin and the Dinosaurs by Jon Hansen
•   words fail by Eric Marin
•   Untitled scifaiku by Tim Jamieson
•   & I imagine the end of the world by Peter Roberts


Issue #12: November-December 2004
•   Breakthrough by David J. Wright
•   Boxed by Will McIntosh
•   Pet by L.E. Symms
•   Ashes to Ashes by MP Ericson
•   Letter from a Red-Shifted Star by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
•   Five Stars Fell by Samantha Henderson


Issue #11: October 2004
•   Harlequins by Steve Carper
•   Moon Lantern by Rebecca A. Willman
•   A Reluctant Emcee by Mark A. Rayner
•   Marketing War by Michael Seidel
•   No Ruined Lunar City by Greg Beatty
•   Gargoyle by John Borneman
•   Song of a Space Raccoon by Constance Cooper


Issue #10: July/August/September 2004
•   It's All in the Knowing by Mikal Trimm
•   For the Sake of Rock & Roll by Josh Rountree
•   Post-Human Pat by Lavie Tidhar
•   Catch by Luc Reid
•   Her First Affair by Larry Hammer
•   Wars Aren't Ended After All by David C. Kopaska-Merkel


Issue #9: May/June 2004 All-Flash Issue
part i:
•   Swansong by Kyri Freeman
•   Clown Eggs by Jay Lake
•   Paranoia by Samantha Henderson
•   Heat Sink by Wendy S. Delmater

part ii:
•   Inside the Witch's Oven by Eugie Foster
•   A Farmer Considers Geologic Time by Tim Myers
•   When We Replicated Charles Dickens by Bruce Boston

part iii:
•   Vincent's Secret Students by Robert T. Jeschonek
•   Apollo 11 by Tim Myers
•   Grey Head and Them Big Black Eyes by Ryan Robert Mullen


Issue #8: March/April 2004
•   Making A Sparrow by Tracina Jackson-Adams
•   Live From The Volgograd Blackout! by Barth Anderson
•   My Duties Aboard Ship by Steve Wilson
•   The Powerful Bad Luck of DD Dupree by Frank Tuttle


Issue #7: January/February 2004
•   U U B US by Greg Beatty
•   My Kingdom by Hannah Wolf Bowen
•   Those Boiled Bones by Jay Lake


Issue #6: November/December 2003
Featuring fiction by Bruce Holland Rogers and Justin Stanchfield and poetry by Mike Allen


Issue #5: September/October 2003
Featuring fiction by James Maxey, Greg Beatty, and Justin Stanchfield, and poetry by Mikal Trimm


Issue #4: July/August 2003
Featuring fiction by Tim Pratt, S. Evans, Kyri Freeman, Kathryn Allen, and Chelsea Polk


Issue #3: May/June 2003
Featuring fiction by Greg Beatty, Clay Waters, Phil Emery, and Luc Reid


Issue #2: March/April 2003
Featuring fiction by S. Evans, Finley Larkin, and Sue Burke


Issue #1: January/February 2003
Featuring fiction by M. Thomas, Ian Creasey, and Benjamin Buchholz



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