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ABYSS & APEX

Issue 19: 3rd 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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    Editorial:
    What Is It You Really Want?

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    Fiction

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    Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-Four Days
    Vylar Kaftan
    Where is justice? Where is justice in nine thousand four hundred ninety-four days?

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    New Spectacles
    by Will McIntosh
    According to the readout, his grandfather hated his grandmother, truly hated her.

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    Ageless
    By Aaron Callow
    In seven hundred years he had lost count of the friends he had known and lost. Each had taken its toll on him until he had at last decided that his time had come, too.

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    Interfaith
    by Lisa Mantchev
    Justine's mouth worked. Then she snapped it shut and stomped off to sprinkle holy water in every corner of the ground floor. A miniature exorcism/protest, I imagine.

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    The Ghosts of Los Hellas
    by RJ Astruc
    "They are always white, the colour of death, and they disappear when the sun touches them."

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    Flash Fiction

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    Goddess
    by Jon Hansen
    A slow turn shuddered through his brain. Why was she talking to him?

    Small Change
    by Mikal Trimm
    "Why, Donald? Why is this happening now? Why is it important?"

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    Poetry

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    Ice-cream and Absent Lovers
    by Marcie Lynn Tentchoff

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    Forest Fleets
    by Rio Le Moignan

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    Albino Dragons
    by KJ Kirby

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    Golem's Song
    by Amal El-Mohtar

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    Berthold the Bastard
    by Elizabeth Barrette

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    My Grandmother's Things
    by Amber Jillene Yoo

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    Your Move, Musée
    by Greg Beatty

    Awards

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  • 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 22nd 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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