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Issue #29: 1st Quarter 2000

Editorial:
•   Rejectomany by Wendy S. Delmater, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief

Fiction:
•   After The Revolution by Pauline J. Alama
•   Letter Found In A Chest Belonging To The Marquis de Montseraille
    Following The Death Of That Worthy Individual
by Marie Brennan
•   One Hand Washes The Other by Fraser Sherman
•   Incarnation In The Delta by Richard Foss
•   Murder by Carl Bunker
•   East of Chula Vista by Samantha Henderson


Issue #28: 4th Quarter 2008

Editorial:
•   SpecFicWorld Interviews Wendy S. Delmater by Doyle Eldom Wilmoth, Jr.

Fiction:
•   Troy And The Aliens by Ruth Nestvold
•   Angry Rose's Lament by Cat Rambo
•   Snips and Snails, a tale from the DMA casefiles by Patrick Thomas
•   Orange Is Just Another Color by S.K. Richards
•   Musings On Flesh And Other Prisons by Jennifer Greylyn

Poetry:
•   Clay Companion by Kurt Kirchmeier
•   Dark Flow by Francis W. Alexander
•   The Other Rooftops by Randy Schroeder
•   The Ignorant Sand by Lee Stern
•   Dog Star Man by Howie Good
•   Untitled Scifaiku by Greg Schwartz


Issue #27: 3rd Quarter 2008

Editorial:
•   Dear Cthulhu as told to Patrick Thomas

Fiction:
•   The Number of Angels in Hell by Joanne Steinwachs
•   Vainamoinen and the Singing Fish by Marissa K. Lingen
•   Praxitales by Nye Joell Hardy
•   Walking Across The Bomb by Alexandra MacKenzie
•   The Green Infinity by Camille Alexa
•   The Night The Stars Sang Out My Name by Ken Scholes

Poetry:
•   Odysseus On The War Train by Rose Lemberg
•   Side Show Sally by Tracie McBride
•   Hives by Elizabeth Penrose
•   Three Poems Called Cosmic by JM McDermott
•   Think by Suzanne Sykora
•   Pavlov's Best Friend by Kristine Ong Muslim
•   Shears by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
•   Two Haiku by Frances W. Alexander
•   LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS by Kendall Evans


Issue #26: 2nd Quarter 2008

Editorial:
•   Real Life by Jude-Marie Green

Fiction:
•   One Wicker Day by Andrew S. Fuller
•   Wolfling by Laura Anne Gilman
•   Xenosomnambulism by Lawrence M. Schoen
•   Ghosts of Cretaceous Park by Larry Hodges
•   Disarm by Vylar Kaftan


Issue #25: 1st Quarter 2008

Editorial:
•   Cover Art by Eric Reynolds

Fiction:
•   Snatch Me Another by Mercurio D. Rivera
•   If Tears Were Wishes by Ruth Nestvold
•   Healer by Phil Margolies
•   At Blue Crane Falls by Brian Dolton
•   Quartet, With Mermaids by Alan Smale

Poetry:
•   City of Beautiful Nonsense by Justin Howe
•   Raising a god by M. Frost.


Issue #24: 4th Quarter 2007

Editorial:
•   Standing Down by Frank Wu

Fiction:
•   Metamorphoses In Amber by Tony Pi
•   Looking Out For Number One by Patrick Hudson
•   Love And Death In The Time Of Monsters by Frank Wu
    This story has been podcast at Escape Pod.
•   Under The Blue Curve by Mark A. Rayner
•   Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel

Poetry:
•   Sailors Take Warning by Robin M. Mayhall
•   I Wish For Wingsby Gwen Campbell
•   Lament For Titan by Robin M. Mayhall


Issue #23: 3rd Quarter 2007

Editorial:
•   Fear and Shadows: The Line Between Horror and Dark Fantasy by Wendy S. Delmater

Fiction:
•   Being Blue by Shane Nelson
•   Turning Time by David Sakmyster
•   Freeing Teresa by JD Paradise

Poetry:
•   Start Here: Poetry Editorial by Trent Walters
•   A Season With The Geese by Rachel Swirsky
•   The First Stranger by Kristin Ong Muslim
•   What Happened by Janet Parkinson
•   Quantum Semantics byNorman Bell
•   E-mail to Damniso Lopez 70 by Duane Locke
•   Ash by Marcie Tentchoff
•   Respect by Stefanie Maclin
•   Hieratics by Darin Bradley


Issue #22: 2nd Quarter 2007

Editorial:
•   Transcription of the "Ask The Editors" Panel at LunaCon 2007
with John Joseph Adams, Douglas Cohen, Wendy S. Delmater, Marvin Kaye, and Hildy Silverman

Fiction:
•   Pinny by M. Keaton
•   Hour By Hour by Lindsey Duncan
•   Weepers and Ragers by Aliette de Bodard
•   Diminished Capacity by Andrew Zimmerman Jones
•   And Saturn Below by Wade Ogletree
•   The Road To Heather Cove by Richard A. Lovett
•   The Devil You Know by Heidi Wessman Kneale

Poetry:
•   Poetry Editorial by Trent Walters
•   Dreams of Sinaloa by Alveraz Ricardez
•   The Japanese Businessman by Kyle Hemmings
•   An Alien Ate My SF Poem by Elizabeth Barrette
•   Partial-Birth Revolution by Kaori Praschak
•   Vault by John Fyffe
•   Pancho's Email by Marie Vibbert
•   Twelve Dancing Daughters by Pam McNew
•   Alone No More by William Trowbridge


Issue #21: 1st Quarter 2007

Editorial:
•   Gliding Into Writing by Diane Turnshek

Fiction:
•   Stories of the Alien Invasion by Manek Mistry
•   Walking The Valley by Jeremy Minton
•   Bittersweet by N. K. Jemison
•   The Memory of Touch by Karen Swanberg
•   The Man Behind The Curtain by Joseph Paul Haines
•   Ten New Metaphors for Cyberspace by Cat Rambo
•   Fading Away by Jay Lake

Poetry:
•   Prayer Causes Stars by Greg Beatty
•   Jazz Sunsets by Marge Simon
•   The Witch of Central by T. R. Click
•   Emit timE by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
•   Untitled Scifaiku by Robert Saunders
•   Untitled Scifaiku by Deborah P. Kolodji
•   Untitled Scifaiku by oino sakai
•   "Shadow of Her" by William Blake Vogel III
•   The Golden Age by Lyn Gardner
•   Night Is My House by Christopher Vera


Issue #20: 4th Quarter 2006

Editorial:
•   Watchers by Wendy S. Delmater

Fiction:
•   Godspeed Inc. by Vincent Miskell
•   The Man Who Was Never Afraid by Brian Dolton
•   The Knife by Jason L. Corner
•   Nomad by Karl Bunker
•   The Heaviest Dream by M. Kate Havas
•   A Fool's Death by Lawrence M. Schoen

Poetry:
•   Unicorns by Phillip A. Ellis
•   Untitled Scifaiku by Patricia Kelly
•   Haiku of Forever by Anthony Bernstein
•   Untitled Scifaiku by Wesley Lambert
•    Best Be Ware by Rie Sheridan Rose
•   Bar Harbor by George Freek


Issue #19: 3rd Quarter 2006

Editorial:
•   What Is It You Really Want? by Wendy S. Delmater

Fiction:
•   Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-Four Days by Vylar Kaftan
•   New Spectacles by Will McIntosh
•   Ageless by Aaron Callow
•   Interfaith by Lisa Mantchev
•   The Ghosts of Los Hellas by RJ Astruc
•   Goddess by Jon Hansen
•   Small Change by Mikal Trimm

Poetry:
•   Ice-Cream and Absent Lovers by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
•   Forest Fleets by Rio Le Moignan
•   Albino Dragons by KJ Kirby
•   Golem's Song by Amal El-Mohtar
•   Berthold The Bastard by Elizabeth Barrette
•   My Grandmother's Things by Amber Jillene Yoo
•   Your Move, Musee by Greg Beatty


Issue #18: 2nd Quarter (April) 2006

Editorial:
•   Not What It Seems by Wendy S. Delmater

Fiction:
•   All the Wonder in the World by Lavie Tidhar
•   When Maxwell's Demon Met Schrödinger’s Cat by Jack Hillman
•   Becoming by Rae Dawn Carson
•   Emmett, Joey & the Beelz by Ralph Sevush
•   Unicorn’s Rest by Jill Knowles
•   Nanoflakes by James S. Dorr

Poetry:
•   Beasts of Elfland by Larry Hammer
•   Sound Years by A. J. Luxton
•   Kara's jungle by s.c.virtes
•   The Dimensional Rush of Relative Lives by Bruce Boston
•   The Devil Stands Near My Pulpit by Christopher Vera
•   At The Children's Pound by Marge Simon
•   Capella 5 needs your children by Rich Magahiz
•   untitled by assu


Issue #17: 1st Quarter (January-February) 2006

Editorial:
•   Exotic Locales by Wendy S. Delmater

Fiction:
•   In The Season of Blue Storms by Jude-Marie Green
•   Douen Mother by R. S. Garcia
•   The Winter Astronaut by Mark Patrick Lynch
•   Flood by Jennifer Pelland
•   The Last Temptation of Humanity by Paul Woodlin
•   A Clockwork Break by Shawn Scarber

Poetry:
•   Jumpers by Karen A. Romanko
•   The Lament of The Naga's Mother by Rachel Swirsky
•   time the illusion by s.c.virtes
•   It will appear on your water and sewerage bill by Julia Sevin
•   Tinker by Samantha Henderson

•   A Mars Cycle:
•   Untitled Scifaiku by Deborah P. Kolodji
•   Excess on Mars by Deborah P. Kolodji
•   Sojourn on Mars by Deborah P. Kolodji and ushi

•   The Curse of Beauty by Rich Magahiz


Issue #16: 4th Quarter 2005

Editorial:
•   Forces of Nature by Aleta Daknis, Associate Editor

Fiction:
•   The Dream of Rain by Constance Cooper
•   Sumo21 by Daniel Braum

Zeno's Duet
•   Introduction by Wendy S. Delmater
•   Zeno's Last Paradox by Tony Pi
•   The Relativity Prison by Igor Teper

•   American Gothic by Douglas W. Clark
•   The Difference Between Fiction and Life by Bruce Holland Rogers

Poetry:
•   The Man Who Held Infinity by Mikal Trimm
•   untitled scifaiku by Mark Gilbert
•   Black Holes Hold Their Breath by Mike Allen
•   Family One by Mark Gilbert
•   The Wizard Gets A Haircut by Jon Hansen
•   Gingerbread by Constance Cooper
•   Greening by Jennifer Crow
•   Sequences In The Evolution of Form by Jennifer Crow
•   Internal Waves by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
•   Dear Yourself by Yoon Ha Lee
•   Walking Through The Village At Twilight by Robin Pommier


Issue #15: 3rd Quarter 2005

Editorial:
•   An Embarrassment of Riches by Aleta Daknis, Associate Editor

Fiction:
•   Long Man by E.N. Wilson
•   Museum Beetles by Simon Kewin
•   The Many Faces of Lisa Adorn by Matthew Kressel
•   Coming Home by Deborah Fitchett
•   Custody by Jennifer Rachel Baumer
•   The Frozen People by Danny Adams

Poetry:
•   untitled scifaiku by Tim Jamieson
•   Tour Of Duty by Deborah P. Kolodji
•   untitled scifaiku by Deborah P. Kolodji
•   Prayer Causes Stars by Greg Beatty
•   Welcome To WorldCon by Greg Beatty
•   The Wizard And The Sorceress by Christopher Vera


Issue #14: 2nd Quarter (April) 2005

Editorial:
•   A Change Will Do You Good by Aleta Daknis, Associate Editor

Fiction:
•   Next by Patrick Samphire
•   The Station With No Name by Justin Stanchfield
•   Flensing Detritus by Steve Vernon
•   Mother's Condition: A Caustic Experiment by Laura Cooper
•   What They Wanted by M.K. Hobson

Poetry:
•   Kingdom of Dust & Steel by Yoon Ha Lee
•   in the by Peter Roberts
•   a plan by Eric Marin


Issue #13: January-February 2005

Editorial:
•   Triskaidekaphobia by Editor

Fiction:
•   Variables by Matthew Cheney
•   The Barrow Man by Lisa Batya Feld
•   Pan de Oro by J. Stern
•   Erin and the Dinosaurs by Jon Hansen

Poetry:
•   words fail by Eric Marin
•   Untitled scifaiku by Tim Jamieson
•   & I imagine the end of the world by Peter Roberts


Issue #12: November-December 2004

Editorial:
•   Ups, Downs, and Loop-de-Loops by Editor

Fiction:
•   Breakthrough by David J. Wright
•   Boxed by Will McIntosh
•   Pet by L.E. Symms
•   Ashes to Ashes by MP Ericson

Poetry:
•   Letter from a Red-Shifted Star by David C. Kopaska-Merkel
•   Five Stars Fell by Samantha Henderson


Issue #11: October 2004

Editorial:
•   A Long And Crazy Summer by Editor

Fiction:
•   Harlequins by Steve Carper
•   Moon Lantern by Rebecca A. Willman
•   A Reluctant Emcee by Mark A. Rayner
•   Marketing War by Michael Seidel

Poetry:
•   No Ruined Lunar City by Greg Beatty
•   Gargoyle by John Borneman
•   Song of a Space Raccoon by Constance Cooper


Issue #10: July/August/September 2004

Editorial:
•   The More Things Change by Editor

Fiction:
•   It's All in the Knowing by Mikal Trimm
•   For the Sake of Rock & Roll by Josh Rountree
•   Post-Human Pat by Lavie Tidhar
•   Catch by Luc Reid

Poetry:
•   Her First Affair by Larry Hammer
•   Wars Aren't Ended After All by David C. Kopaska-Merkel


Issue #9: May/June 2004 All-Flash Issue

Editorial:
•   The Weight of a Nebula by Editor

Fiction:
Part iii:
•   Vincent's Secret Students by Robert T. Jeschonek
•   Apollo 11 by Tim Myers
•   Grey Head and Them Big Black Eyes by Ryan Robert Mullen

Part ii:
•   Inside the Witch's Oven by Eugie Foster
•   A Farmer Considers Geologic Time by Tim Myers
•   When We Replicated Charles Dickens by Bruce Boston

Part i:
•   Swansong by Kyri Freeman
•   Clown Eggs by Jay Lake
•   Paranoia by Samantha Henderson
•   Heat Sink by Wendy S. Delmater


Issue #8: March/April 2004

Editorial:
•   Welcome by Carol Burrell, Editor-In-Chief

Fiction:
•   Making A Sparrow by Tracina Jackson-Adams
•   Live From The Volgograd Blackout! by Barth Anderson
•   My Duties Aboard Ship by Steve Wilson
•   The Powerful Bad Luck of DD Dupree by Frank Tuttle


Issue #7: January/February 2004

Fiction:
•   U U B US by Greg Beatty
•   My Kingdom by Hannah Wolf Bowen
•   Those Boiled Bones by Jay Lake


Issue #6: November/December 2003
Fiction:
•   Rich and Beautiful by Bruce Holland Rogers
•   God's Guitar - Part Two by Justin Stanchfield

Poetry:
•   The telePath Co. soothes a user by Mike Allen


Issue #5: September/October 2003

Fiction:
•   Little Guilt Thing Goin' On by James Maxey
•   Healing In The Absence of An Oral Culture by Greg Beatty
•   God's Guitar - Part One by Justin Stanchfield

Poetry:
•   The Circumstances of His Disappearance by Mikal Trimm


Issue #4: July/August 2003

Fiction:
•   The Sea A Deeper Black by Tim Pratt
•   Sleipnir's Mother by S. Evans
•   The Bargain, Kept by Kyri Freeman
•   Incubus by Kathryn Allen
•   La Bel Homme Sans Merci by Chelsea Polk


Issue #3: May/June 2003

Editorial:
•   Framing Shots by Editor

Fiction:
•   Everything Old Is New Again by Greg Beatty
•   How Greta Dies by Clay Waters
•   Nightdweller by Phil Emery
•   Just Like Meteors by Luc Reid


Issue #2: March/April 2003

Editorial:
•   Food For Thought by Editor

Fiction:
•   Pineapple Girl by S. Evans
•   Why I Don't Drink Anymore by Finley Larkin
•   Aliens Love Oranges by Sue Burke


Issue #1: January/February 2003

Editorial:
•   Ground Control To Major Tom... by Editor

Fiction:
•   Loose Maria by M. Thomas
•   Waiting For The Big Freeze by Ian Creasey
•   Five To Nowhere by Benjamin Buchholz


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