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February/March 2010
Vol. VIII No. 4   ISSN: 1545-3650
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~ All Too Human ~ ~ by Mike Foster, New York
Palms touch. Fingers interlace… One all too human; The other, perfect polymer.

 

 

~ ~ ~ Need ~ ~ ~ ~ by Paul Latham, Tennessee
She takes my hand ~ pulling me, wanting me to drive the stake into her haunted heart.
 

 
 


Featured Fiction
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

by Robert Kent  ©2010

"This is it though the scientists," as they huddled around the displays in the NASA control room.  Finally, after decades of waiting, the Voyager II probe was about to pass the Heliopause of the Solar system and reach Interstellar space.

Best of all, unlike it’s counterpart Voyager I, when it had reached the Heliopause, Voyager II’s onboard camera was still functioning well enough to take pictures.  So a command was sent out to take a picture of the entire Solar System, for the first time ever.  This will beat even the Pale Blue Dot Picture Voyager I took," thought the collectively gathered scientists.

Moments later, as the transmission of the greatly anticipated picture came in, and was downloaded to the main viewer, a collective gasp occurred. There, neatly in the center of the picture, blocking out the sun was a sign that said,

 Please, No Visitors Beyond This Point

~ Robert Kent, Ohio  ©2010

Robert is freelance science fiction writer, a Cleveland native and Cleveland State University graduate.  He is currently working on publishing a science fiction collection.

 
 

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