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There Goes the Neighbourhood
There Goes the Neighbourhood by Tim Major Check the trays of seedlings. Check the heat of the forge. Check the defences. Shanté performed this routine every day. Every hour, perhaps. The seedlings were perpetually on the cusp of pushing through … Continue reading
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A&A Reviews Postcards from a City of Monsters
Postcards From a City of Monsters (Improbable Press) by Sherri Cook Woosley We rarely review children’s books, but this is a wonderful fantasy that serves a purpose. Toby’s mom and step-mom move halfway around the world with him, to the … Continue reading
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A&A Reviews Dueling Six Demons
Dueling Six Demons (Discus Books) by Jim Geraghty The Dangerous Clique novels have a paranormal edge to them and if you like spy thrillers you’ll love these books. The “Dangerous Clique” is a group of CIA misfits that go into … Continue reading
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A&A reviews Dragons Cats and Formidable Femmes
Dragons, Cats, and Formidable Femmes (Ginger Blue Publishing) by Jean Marie Ward Dragons, Cats, and Formidable Femmes is Jean Marie’s new collection of short stories across the years. I should mention that there’s a lovely introduction by Jody Lynn Nye. … Continue reading
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On Mars
Kathleen S. Burgess On Mars Alien, and lonely in this cold, distant world, I’m blue while the crimson sun of desire slumps over a Midwest harvest of sere spines and ears of corn, skeletal soybeans leaving behind dry stubs, … Continue reading
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My Bone Whisperer
Robert Frazier My Bone Whisperer As we circumnavigate Como Bluff A glow reddens the seer’s face Her vision folds into the anticline Layers of these formations Ripe with vertebrate remains She reads their hidden mysteries Haunts their fossil trails … Continue reading
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An Exposure of Evolution
Ann Thornfield-Long An Exposure of Evolution The sun drives all of us worshipers to the shore where wind cools us beneath the pale shade of plants. Easing our bodies into and out of the sea, we find treasures … Continue reading
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If There Are Horses Now
Faith Allington If There Are Horses Now For years you said little and wrote less for years you were haunted by loves you’d lost the ghosts of friends the mistakes you’d made the inadequacies of being … Continue reading
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Pearls in Galactic Oysters
John C. Mannone Pearls in Galactic Oysters Dredge the depths of black for sparkles in sands of space and time. Galaxies, as oysters, clump in clusters with glue of gravity. Pry them open; savor their secrets. Some are plump … Continue reading
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It Didn’t Fall in a Day
Larina Warnock It Didn’t Fall in a Day The last shade tree in Terafel shimmied like the last desert dancer who had, days before, closed eyelids of a dozen lovers, dying one after another in a shower of sky … Continue reading
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