Issue #3: Among Aliens
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Snippets from Issue 3
Theodora Goss | Theodora's website
Conversations with Pip I: In Which She Doesn't Believe in Fairies
Her silence expresses her infinite scorn for the French, who are always, it seems, discussing the helicopter of their mother’s uncle. In Pip’s world, the fairies are stupidest, then Shakespeare, then the French.
Lena DeTar | Lena's website
On the Phenomena of Death and Departure Among the Native Sound Imperceptive Brainys of Sierry 6X7.5YR
Her large eyes and feathery antennae, blue and blue, focused exclusively in our direction. Big-Quill stood as still as I have ever seen him, and even Swift-Foot, always communicating some small emoticon or another with her hand position, was unmoving.
David Lunde, James Sallis, Jane Rose, ML Brannock
Some Imaginary Melon
Perhaps you wouldn't.
But sir: consider...
Eric Marin | Eric's website
tar balls
"lead us home"
cried the balls
lonely for pressured gassy depths
Karina Sumner-Smith | Karina's website
Remembrance Day
On that day, whose memory was I supposed to cherish? Whom should I thank? Whose deeds should I remember and what deaths was I to mourn?
Christopher Barzak | Christopher's website
I Am the Foreign Teacher
Once I got okay with being a bit of a dork, a bit of a dummy, suddenly a lot of things that used to hold me back just went away.
