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Aug/Sept 2010
Vol. IX No. 1   ISSN: 1545-3650
 

AlienSkin Magazine®
Published Bi-Monthly Online

 
 

~ ~ Clowns Don't Really Smile ~ ~ by Milo James Fowler, California
We just unhinge our slack jaws and wait for you to accidentally make eye contact.

 

 

 

~ Last of Its Kind ~ ~ by Mark Evans, Qatar
The bots picked through the remains of the strange creature ~ bipedal wetware ~ how it fought.
 

 
 


Featured Fiction
Inter-Sphinx Bazaar

by Chrystalla Thoma  ©2010

The sign read: Inter-Sphinx Bazaar.  Find what you really need.

The man entered and squinted in the half-light. "Anybody here?"

"Always and never."  A cat-headed woman slunk toward him.  "What might you need?"

"A love spell."

Bast purred.  "To break or bind?"

"To break and bind."  He paused.  "To remake whole."

The light shifted, framing a jackal-headed man who sat cross-legged on the floor.  "Remake?  I’m your god, man."

The man shrank back.  "Not you, not death, I’m not asking—"

"To kill her?  No."  Anubis rose in one powerful movement, thrusting his muzzle into the man’s face. "You seek to fool us, man.  Real spells cannot be built on lies."

"Honest, she’s alive, and left me for another!"

"Yes, she’s alive.  And you’re a ghost long dead, so she forgot you.  Let her go, man."  Anubis moved a step back, and opened his arms.  "Come and embrace your death."

~ Chrystalla Thoma, Cyprus  ©2010

Chrystalla is permanent resident of fantasy land, complete with angels and demons, elves, vampires and werewolves.  A Greek Cypriot, she lives in Cyprus with her husband and her vast herd of books.  When not reading or writing, she works as a linguistics lecturer at a private university and as a freelance translator.

 
 

 

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