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BLOOD ON THE MARBLE Konstantine Paradias “Live, from Tenochtitlan, it’s the Ullamaliztli world series finals!” “Yes, Tototl and it’s already shaping up

ANACYCLOSIS Brian Niemeier Kob Agur strained to see behind the red circle that gamboled upon his screen’s starry backdrop, but distance obscured

FLIPOUTS Barry Rosenberg The brain was a walnut? Leo turned his school book this way and that. But no matter how he

INFINITE BOYFRIENDS Marie Vibbert Nick the First My boyfriend, Nick, never approved of Stacey, or as he called her, “your friend the

HELLO, HELL Mark Butterworth Jack Weller was a fine young man if you define young these days as many men do as

TIMES ARE BURNING Adam Armstrong The light slowly burned off his feet. He knew he wasn’t supposed to look but he couldn’t

AWAKE Becky Enoch ‘So, how can I help?’ ‘Well…I still have a pretty constant headache. It’s been going on a while now,

SCIENCE FICTION AND ITS PAST RELATIONS WITH THE ACADEMY Victor Grech, Clare Vassallo and Ivan Callus ‘What was once … a secret

ADA Peter J. Borger Nate had a personal dossier on every member of the Shark, nothing official, just his own notes; you

BURNING MEN Samuel Marzioli It was dawn by the time we reached our project site, tucked into a field ten miles south

ZEN AND THE ART OF SPACECRAFT REPAIR Hunter Liguore I. I can see by the clock on the dashboard that it’s 0100

THE SIXTH FINGER Paul Williams The villagers saw the soldiers approaching and formed a futile circle to protect their homes. There were

A RIGHT TO THE CEREBELLUM Richard Zwicker My partner Detective Bill Weatherby never called in sick, so when he was out Monday,

THE DECISION Sean Patrick Hazlett For years, business leaders from Mars to the Kuiper Belt have been asking me to outline my

ON BOARD LEPER E.J. Shumak The comm panels exploded with light. Whole systems went to backup and a few to third bypass

THE CURSE OF THE LIFEWALKER Joe Vasicek My given name is Isaac Jameson, but most people know me as the Lifewalker. It