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Centaur in Brass 2041

Posted on June 20th, 2010
By Jeremy Adam Smith When I was a kid, there were no canals, no vaporettos, no peacekeepers. That San Francisco seems exotically technicolor to me now, like one of those planets the ...
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Losing His Head

Posted on October 30th, 2009
by Michael C. Keith Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him . . . —William Shakespeare To the outside world Jerry Farelli appeared to have everything life could offer: good looks, excellent health, and ...

Gleam

Posted on September 3rd, 2009
by Niall Boyce I had lost track of the days. The first hint that I was near my destination was the glimmer of the plastic sheets flapping in the desert breeze. It was ...
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Mawulf Sees the World

Posted on June 21st, 2009
By Adam Myers In the very long, long ago, (or maybe in the soon, soon to be), there lived a curious creature whose name was Mawulf. Now Mawulf was curious in two ways. First, ...

The Burning Turtle

Posted on April 10th, 2009
by Michael C. Keith The Creature has a purpose and his eyes are bright with it. -- John Keats Turtles communicate mostly by grunting, and what they have to say is amazing. I know because ...

Perfect Day

Posted on July 7th, 2007
By Adam Myers My good friend Marianne once asked me, “What is your definition of a perfect day?” She was flipping through one of those women’s magazines, reading the questions of some quiz out ...

Kocau-Asu-Asu and the Imp

Posted on March 25th, 2007
One day Kocau-Asu-Asu was working in his field. And as he dug and ploughed and displaced soil, he woke up a shriveled imp sleeping under a stone.Now the imp was an ancient, ...