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ABYSS & APEX

Issue 23: 3rd Quarter 2007

"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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  • Poets might want to check this edition’s poetry editorial to get a feel for the styles we like.

    Editorial:
    Fear and Shadows: The Line Between Horror and Dark Fantasy

    Wendy S. Delmater, Managing Editor *

  • Short Fiction

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    Being Blue
    by Shane Nelson
          He turned on the radio and listened to mindless pop music while inching his way onto the freeway. He was tapping his fingers on the steering wheel when he noticed the faint blue shadows between his knuckles. Like the marks on his thighs, the blue tinge resembled a bruise.

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    Turning Time
    by David Sakmyster
          "They're good boys, they are Olsen, they really are. Even if they don't follow the old ways, even if they've left me alone here and they don't — can't help out their mother. But this, this is the Famadihana. They must come. They will come. I'll make the arrangements tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll make the calls."
          She looked back to her husband, but in the soft, slowly-spreading glow of dawn, whose silky fingers poked through the canvass-draped window, she could see that his chair was empty.

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    Freeing Teresa
    by JD Paradise
          Jerry blinked out into the cold and tried not to touch together fingertips raw from the edges of photographs and love letters. "And you are . . ."
          "Concerned." But the sunken eyes staring down from the hat's shadow held no concern. They held no expression at all, only a faint silver glint. The thin lips barely moved. "You do not understand the dangers of the path you have chosen."

    Flash Fiction

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    Flash Fiction will return in our next edition.

    Poetry

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    Start Here: Poetry Editorial
    Trent Walters, Poetry Editor

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    A Season With The Geese
    by Rachel Swirsky *

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    The First Stranger
    by Kristine Ong Muslim

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    What Happened
    by Janet Parkinson

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    Quantum Semantics
    by Norman Ball

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    E–Mail to Damniso Lopez 70
    by Duane Locke

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    Ash
    by Marcie Tentchoff

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    Respect
    by Stefanie Maclin *

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    Hieratics
    by Darin Bradley *


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    Awards

    * Honorable Mentions: 2006 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 24rd Ed, edited by Gardner Dozois:
         In The Season of Blue Storms, by Jude-Marie Green
         New Spectacles, by Will McIntosh
         Interfaith, by Lisa Mantchev
         All The Wonder In The World, by Lavie Tidhar

    Selected as notable stories of 2006 by Story South.
         All The Wonder in The World by Lavie Tidhar
         Godspeed, Inc. by Vincent Miskell
         In the Season of Blue Storms by Jude–Marie Green

    Prayer Causes Stars by Greg Beatty, published in Issue 15, has garnered a third place award from the Dwarf Stars poetry anthology.

    Museum Beetles by Simon Kewin
    Honorable Mentions: 2005 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Ed, edited by Gardner Dozois

    No Ruined Lunar City by Greg Beatty - 2005 Rhysling Award winning poem

    Live From The Volgograd Blackout! by Barth Anderson
    Honorable Mentions: 2004 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 22nd Ed, edited by Gardner Dozois

    Those Boiled Bones by Jay Lake
    Honorable Mentions: 2004 in The Year's Best Science Fiction 22nd Ed, edited by Gardner 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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