Movie Review

FLYBOYS by Paul Campbell

 

Stories

Middle Management by Fred Bubbers - Corporate management notices that the monthly output from the Troy plant has been slowly but steadily dropping. The workers must be slacking off. They send in a new plant manager to shake things up and whip those losers into shape.

The image by P.S. Gifford - Have you ever looked hard at yourself in the mirror?

Reach by Bill West - Maybe time stops. You float inches above the water as if caught in a vast and invisible fist. Silence. A breeze ruffles your hair.

 

Billy by Townsend Walker - Billy was short, not short as a minute, but 4-10 short. And he was round, so his apple complexion showed no wrinkles, even at forty-five. Billy might have passed through the world unnoticed, but he had some particular gifts. He was graceful on his feet, and with his hands, lizard tongue quick.

 

The Faeries by Kim Smith - Her back was to me. I shivered as I took in the somber

surroundings. The old tree where she knelt was gnarled with roots exposed in the twilight and spindly twigs shooting out at odd angles.

 

What Monchie Wants A counterpoint by Ross Cunningham and Brenda Hubbard

 

Riddle Me by A.M. Amodeo - She had been looking out over the water, not over the bow, it was crowded there, but toward the stern of the boat, where there were just a few gulls and the sun glinting on the water like the flashing of knives, no, like weightless fish of light. The water looked soft.

 

RIP by D. K. McGill - Walker was like everyone else. He never thought anything like this would happen. Not to his fighter.

 

The Hidden Path by Joshua Blanc - Elise lay on the bank of the swimming hole, frowning into the water. It was a place of endless amusement, most days. Sometimes she would dangle a piece of meat on a string into the pool, and watch freshwater prawns crawl up the rocks after it. But today, even that didn't engage her. She sighed.

The Tooth and the Red-Head by Janie Hofmann - The horses pulled the coal carts into town, past Bazer's station, their hoofs clacking on the stone road, and he fondly remembered the red-head. In the Sagite Hills, feasting on carrion, he heard wheezing, turned to face a scruffy carrot top cursed with a large, rotting incisor. It stomped its hoof, pointing with fingerless hands at the tooth.

 

TWISTERS by Daniel M. Berkey - He went out again for another walk in the desert, but he didn't tell anybody. The time had come, he felt.

 

Slice of Life

 

The Persistence of gravy: December 30, 2006 by Fred Bubbers

 

Poetry

 

Appendix by J Michael Wahlgren

 

 

Lacking Conviction by Jamie Lin       *Language*

 

 

My Father's Face by Pete Lee

 

 

An Angel Waits for the Bus by Soraya Renteria

 

 

Comics

 

Along the Chesapeake   by Adrienne Ray - A continuing comic to be added to each week! Fifteen

X:13 - by Kevin James Hurtack - A continuing Sci-fi-/horror comic to be added to at least once a month.