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Issue 14
Bad Moon Risen, by Eric Del Carlo.
Moonup, and hear the bastards yowling. Squawk is there’s movement on the south edge of town, down by the burnt shell of the KFC. I got clear memories of when I was way young going there with my daddy, eating crispy-crispy chicken that was like nothing I can describe to anybody who hasn’t tasted it themselves. Now it’s canned beef and Relief corn and whatever you can grow in a backyard, but at least we eat. I’ve been hungry and seen starving, and both are better than being what’s ate.
Issue 13 Reader’s Choice Winner
We asked our readers to vote for their favorite story in Issue 13. And the winner is:
Four Household Tales (As Told to the Giant Squid), by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid.
Once upon a time there did travel two monks: a wise Giant Squid and his student, Abram Lincoln. Long did the two wander throughout the lands, delivering to the common folk such limited enlightenment as might pass through meager human sensory faculties to sear itself into the spongy grey matter stifled in their shallow brain pans.
One day the Squid and his student came upon a broad and swift river. Where the watercourse had once been straddled by a bridge, there remained only a crumbling abutment. Upon the old stone foundation of the washed-out crossing stood a crestfallen maiden, most beautiful and supple of skin, with exceptionally large breasts ill-concealed by her simple silken négligée, a rear as symmetrical as the twin hemispheres of an atomic device’s uranium core, and a pair of wonderful iron boots which might crush to dust any foe who had the ill luck to inflame her wrath. She wept as she paced, wondering aloud how she would ever cross the river.
April Fool’s!
Don’t miss the magnificently compelling adventures of heroic Tim Beefman, in A. L. Pineson’s Robot Zombie Vampire Goats of Mars!
Free issue!
Wondering what Shimmer‘s like? Our tenth issue, released in early 2010, is available as a free download: the whole issue!
Free audio!
Mary Robinette Kowal reads Mel Cameron’s “A Convocation of Clowns” from Issue 1.
Ken Scholes reads his story Action Team-Ups Number 37 from Issue 2.
Michael Livingston reads his story Gnome Season, from Issue 4.
Happy Holidays, 2005
Our 2005 Holiday Story was The Winter Tree, by Kate Harrad.