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AFTER JERUSALEM Mark Patrick Lynch At first there was shuffling, scratching, a long moment of silence. And then the voice whispered in

HABEAS CORPUS CALLOSUM Jay Werkheiser Jared stared at the paper without comprehension. “Man, I don’t understand any of this legal bullshit.” “It

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF DRIVERLESS CARS Charlie Fish I reckon me wife’s having an affair. Sharon and I got together back when

YOURS IN HEAVEN James Beamon Yours in heaven, you are the first person I wanted to contact cause I knew you’d appreciate

THE PRICE OF KNOWING Nick Nafpliotis “It’s stopped, ma’am.” Sally Watson heard a lot of things while commanding the Voyager 4 ground

THE TEENAGE GIRL’S ROBOT ARMY Rawle Nyanzi From the backyard of her two-story home outside Brisbane, eighteen-year-old Carmen Bronsted monitored her legions

PRICE OF ALLEGIANCE Alex Shvartsman “Mr. Tobin, there is a Cicada here to see you.” Alastair Tobin, Earth’s ambassador to the Galactic

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN August von Orth My Fireball XL5 spaceship crashed on Mercury. The ninety degree heat transformed the curb in

LOVE GUARENTEED T.C. Powell Rannie finally reached the front of the customer service line. Behind the counter stood a tall gentleman wearing

COUCH, WITH A LABRADOR Shauna O’Meara What Garry didn’t expect, as he affixed the cap of electrodes to the dog’s shaved cranium

PTERODACTYL SPARKS Matthew Hance Excerpt from the short story He was a Cannibal by Martin Twang followed by comments from his writing

IN AGES OF IMAGINATION, THUS ARE REMOVED MOUNTAINS Robert J. Santa ADVERT TITLE: BAILEY ADVERTISING 15-SECOND SPOT #1 of 2 PROPOSED VIEWING:

FORBIDDEN Preston Dennett “Jason! You’re late,” Merriweather barked, as he flung my jacket onto a chair and impatiently ushered me to the

MR CRANKY David Stevens A pause before the blackness. As he leaned back on the pillow, he had an image of row

It was the Thursday night after carnival, the Maroon Bird overnight run from Salvador, Bahia, straight on to Paraíso in the state

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY Anne E. Johnson The Beethoven sounded fine. Maria set her cello on its side in front of her chair