"Whoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too,
for if you stare long enough into the Abyss,
the Abyss stares also into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, chapter 4, no. 146

Archives: Issue 3: May/June 2003

Editorial: Framing Shots
Fiction, like so many other endeavours in life, is all about perspective.

Everything Old is New Again
by Greg Beatty

Hypnotized, holding his legs in the air, Professor William Jones watched as his friend poured the contents of the test tube onto what he had taken for a footstool. The squat cylinder began to soften and shift, and then to shiver.

How Greta Dies
by Clay Waters

Then he posed his version of The Question, the one asked in dorm-room sessions and winding-down house parties, by science geeks and English majors alike: "If you had a time machine and a gun, would you kill Hitler?"

Nightdweller
by Phil Emery

I was alone, and no less deaf and blind, when I came this way before. It was a different season and a different wind murmured on my face and neck from a different direction. The forest too, like all living things, has changed and so now even the same wind would travel differently, having to weave a slightly altered path through the sugi. Alone I could again eventually find my stumbling way to the shrine deep in the forest. But it is to the shrine that I believe the hunted spirit will go, so this time I must find it quickly, and so I must trust Ezlo.

Just Like Meteors
by Luc Reid

One time my old friend Allie and me got to arguing as to whether those people that throw themselves out of the sky on fire would ever amount to anything or not, and Allie said yes, and I said no, and Allie said, Courtie, I have known you for sixty-eight years and you have yet to make a damn bit of sense.