Abyss & Apex: Magazine of Speculative Fiction

Issue 18: 2nd Quarter 2006

"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

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	Announcements: Check out our Reviews and Awards Our chapbook is still on sale: Please click on the cover image at right to learn more. For the new faces on staff and slightly changed submissions guidelines, please be sure to read this issue's Submissions and About Us pages. Editorial: Not What It Seems
*Fiction*
	All the Wonder in the World by Lavie Tidhar It began, the way these things usually do, with a rain of frogs.
	When Maxwell's Demon Met Schrödinger’s Cat by Jack Hillman I decided to stop by Stamford's lab to see if there had been any changes. There had been.
	Becoming by Rae Dawn Carson How long until the pride turned to distrust? How long until our lovemaking became tainted with awkward, unspoken questions?
	Emmett, Joey & the Beelz by Ralph Sevush And now Emmet keeps me fixed, as the need arises. God knows why. Guilt, maybe. Or maybe he thinks we're friends. Maybe he thinks he's doing me a favor. Or maybe he's just trying to kill me.
	Unicorn’s Rest by Jill Knowles Her cheek still ached from the slap he'd given her yesterday evening-for daring to smile while her brother was gone.
*Flash Fiction*
	Nanoflakes by James S. Dorr He waded in -- one of the best things about Nanoflakes was that you had to play with your food.

*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
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*Awards*
	No Ruined Lunar City by Greg Beatty - 2005 Rhysling Award winning poem: Live From The Volgograd Blackout! by Barth Anderson and Those Boiled Bones by Jay Lake Both honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Science Fiction 22^nd Ed, edited by Gardiner Dozois Making A Sparrow by Tracina Jackson-Adams – * Honor Roll in The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, edited by Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden * Honorable Mention list in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.
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