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Category Archives: Past
Abyss & Apex : Third Quarter 2012: The Anubis Plague
“The Anubis Plague” by Gary Cuba Bobby Livingston crouched in the musty upstairs hidey-hole, holding Pook’s head in his lap, trying to keep the Golden Retriever quiet and still. The boy could barely keep his own emotions settled; he … Continue reading
Abyss & Apex : Third Quarter 2012: The Agreement
“The Agreement” by Mari Ness We have come to an agreement, his ghost wife and I. She may have him—and , I suppose, he her— one night of the moon: the new moon, when all is dark and the … Continue reading
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2Q 2012 editorial: Steampunk and Peak Resources
2Q 2012 editorial: Steampunk and Peak Resources Examples of steampunk abound. Everything from the classic television show Wild, Wild West to the movie The Golden Compass, to Karin Lowachee’s The Gaslight Dogs has that edge of not only style—a sort … Continue reading
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Event Horizon
Event Horizon by Wade German How perfect and symmetrical the sphere Our ageless, vast galactic center holds: That god-like, ebon countenance so cold, Devouring all substance it draws near. From that … Continue reading
Her Tongue Thinks of Plagiarizing Itself
Her Tongue Thinks of Plagiarizing Itself by Nandini Dhar She keeps me tightly curled between her teeth and the roof of her mouth. Neatly folded in two. I am wet as birth, can’t really avoid sprouting forth for all that … Continue reading
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Dico, King of Hat Tricks
Dico, King of Hat Tricks by Linda D. Addison (for Stephen) Let us discuss allegro: warp speed feet relinquishing all to frontal is goals, devouring records. Pull on your cleats my effortless ally, I will be grass under your feet … Continue reading
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How Strange the Starship’s Shudder
Michael R. Fosburg How Strange the Starship’s Shudder How strange the starship’s shudder that rattles fragile proteins and trembling acids like a shaman rolling bones across the firmament to scry a future shifting like the waters of a vanished world. … Continue reading
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Artist Stranded on the Left Bank
Bruce Boston Artist Stranded on the Left Bank Having scaled the mountains of the moon with no Sherpa for a guide, having eaten steak and kidney pie in the depths of despair in a diminutive pub in Soho, having consumed … Continue reading
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carving poems with a sharp-edged star no chance to revise –semi ______________ semi is the haikujin, or haiku writing name, for Terrie Leigh Relf. Her traditional haiku and senryu, along with related forms such as the zip, have been published … Continue reading
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Galatea
Mary A. Turzillo Galatea In his mind, the artist sees the perfect woman, more beautiful than any mortal eyes can compass, a woman of the soul, daughter of dragons, sister to the sea-nymphs, marble made flesh. He would have no … Continue reading
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