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Lone Star Stories #28
Issue #28 of the Lone Star Stories webzine begins with “Remember the Allosaur” by Jo Walton, a very short piece which is essentially built around a joke. Fortunately, it’s a very funny joke: Cedric was a cloned allosaur who was bred for the purpose of acting in movies; then he started talking, and demanding bigger […]
Continue ReadingThe Paramental Appreciation Society, edited by P. Alan Beatts
The Paramental Appreciation Society, edited by P. Alan Beatts, is a chapbook of stories by the members of a San Francisco writing group, known as the Paramentals, who take their inspiration and their name from the work of Fritz Leiber.
At only 57 pages, this anthology is short, as you’d expect from a chapbook, featuring three […]
Written Word, #13, July 2008
The cover story of Written Word #13, “Vote Robot” by Barry Rosemberg, represents an Aussie view of politics and power, for a change. The fast moving, clever wordplay takes a lot of twists and turns, so pay attention, particularly if you’re not from Down Under:
Wally had always been into politics. Since uni, and for the […]
From the Podosphere: July 2008
July’s Escape Pod starts off well with David Brin’s “Those Eyes,” in which a scientist, standing in for a late-night talk-radio host, speculates on the reasons why so many are obsessed with UFOs and the idea that aliens are already here. Also listening to the show is…an alien, who gives us a different perspective on […]
Continue Readingshortshortshort.com, July 2008
There are many who travel to experience new cultures, but there are also people who travel to confirm their point of view that their own society is the best. In his first short short for July, “Travelogue,” Bruce Holland Rogers focuses on a couple that travels by train to a variety of foreign nations. […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: The Inspiration of Others
Inspiration can be a mysterious thing. However, this month we will explore three poems from Mythic Delirium #18 which spring from a specific inspiration documented in each poem. These poems are not copies of the original, but new art inspired by the old.
Continue ReadingSomething Wicked #7
It is a well-recognised phenomenon that different places produce different flavours of science fiction. Horror, with more of an emphasis on the personal experience, demonstrates this even more. While one story might not tell you too much, nine of them are enough to make you feel that you are getting to know the place. […]
Continue Readingshortshortshort.com, June 2008
Many of Bruce Holland Rogers’s short shorts focus their attention on the anonymity of life in the big city. His first two stories for June fall firmly in this vein, although in very different ways.
“Monologue Number Six” focuses on the anonymous phone call everyone is forced to listen to on public transportation when a […]
Leading Edge #55
The May, 2008, issue of Leading Edge opens with “Chess” by Terry Black. Narrated in the first person point of view by an unnamed miner to a silent miner on his first day on the job as their railcar descends to the mineshaft, the narrator tells about Chess Branson, yet another miner, who saw his […]
Continue ReadingWritten Word, #12, June 2008
Written Word has had some problems with their site this summer. I was unable to access any content for most of July, and then found both the June and July issues posted side by side. The reading was worth the wait, but there were still glitches which prevented me from accessing some stories from […]
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