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horror
Rotten Times
by Robert Hood
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"She turned the handle and pushed. The hinges squealed. Darkness oozed out around her, thick with staleness. She hesitated, afraid she might catch something because the air tasted so diseased. Something moved in the shadows."
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So It Ends
by Kenneth Brady
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"You heft your M-16, smell the pungent tang of gun oil and burnt powder. The barrel is still warm. You bring it up to sight out over the ocean, but there's nothing to shoot at. Not even a goddamned seagull."
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flash
Turn, Turn, Turn
by A. Leigh Jones
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"Jackson said the road was his middle name, and he gassed up Ol' Blue like he meant it, but I knew better. Once the dry crept up under his fingernails we were rooting in, and he'd been picking at his palms since Saturday."
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classic
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
by Edgar Allan Poe
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"It was his practice to take a very large dose of morphine immediately after breakfast each morning, — or, rather, immediately after a cup of strong coffee, for he ate nothing in the forenoon, — and then set forth alone, or attended only by a dog, upon a long ramble among the chain of wild and dreary hills that lie westward and southward of Charlottesville, and are there dignified by the title of the Ragged Mountains."
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i d e o l o g i e s
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book review
The Speed Of Dark
reviewed by Lee Battersby
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A review of Elizabeth Moon's The Speed Of Dark
"Picture this: your noble reviewer, striding along the aisles of his local bookstore, vainly searching for a book to review. His search appears hopeless. Blinded by the never-ending rows of wood pulp smeared with the tie-in of whichever role-playing game is popular this year and endless spines with titles containing the word 'Trek' or 'Wars', he verges on despondency." |
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volume 2
issue 2
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February sees Robert Hood meditate on one of my favourite words - entrophy. Kenneth Brady brings us a timely tale in "So It Ends" while A. Leigh Jones looks at a change of seasons. Our classic this month is something a little different from the master, Edgar Allan Poe.
Ideomancer Unbound has been reviewed by Amy Sterling Casil at SFReader.com. You can read her thoughts here and buy the anthology here.
We are now reopen to submissions with new guidelines. Please read them carefully before submitting. You will note we are now paying US3c a word up to a maximum of US$100 for fiction.
Hope you enjoy this month's issue.
Chris Clarke
Publisher
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