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  • "A Bit Of Coloured Ribbon"
  • Robert A. Hall
  • Issue #43 June 26 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • A city is bordered by ruins harbouring dangerous and undesirable people; reactionaries, bums, homeless people, that sort of thing. Into this devastated area comes a small troop of government soldiers attempting to capture the leader of one of the bigger gangs. In the end, all that is left is the medal, the coloured ribbon, delivered to grieving parents. A strong commentary on the senselessness of war.

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  • "A Conversation With The Author Of The Iron Pig (And Other Notable Events)"
  • C. A. Mehrlein
  • Issue #172 December 15 2000
  • A weird and wonderful tale about a man who finds a web page about a long dead author and his works. As he begins to research the story behind this author, whom history seems to have contrived to erase from memory, he discovers that the website was put up by the ghost of the man. He meets with the ghost and discusses what happened to him, and how the ghost hopes to have his work brought back into the awareness of the reading public.

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  • "A Place For Two"
  • S. Douglas Larsen
  • Issue #154 August 11 2000
  • When the first colony ships are being readied to go, a young couple who are assigned to go frantically try to pull strings to insure that they end up on the same ship. Things eventually work themselves out, although not in quite the way they anticipated.

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  • "A Song For The Witch"
  • Frank Tuttle
  • Issue #88 May 7 1999
  • A fantasy tale about a travelling bard who decides to take a shortcut through some woods. Only, it turns out not to be so short when he gets lost and finds himself in an ancient place where a witch was spelled into a trap. Held as a guest/prisoner, he makes a bargain for his freedom. He would compose a song about the witch, to be spread about the land, if she would guide him back to the road. She accepts the challenge and he manages to pull it off. But she notes that the song isn't finished. He points out that her story does not appear to be complete and he cannot complete the song. She releases him and he makes his way, quickly, to the next town. While performing in the inn, he notices a woman in a hooded cloak listening to his new song. After the performance, he discovers it is the witch, free of her prison, and reminding him that he still must complete the song one day!

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  • "A Touch Of Justice"
  • Darren Latta
  • Issue #35 May 1 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • A story about a man, his wife and her lover. The lover murders the wife and the man is accused of the murder. Because the lover is a rich and powerful man, the husband is found guilty. In the future, people are not executed for murder, the are discorporated. He was told that during his sentence, he would be totally unaware of anything. Once the discorporation is performed, he finds that he is fully aware, as a disembodied spirit. He also discovers that while he cannot touch anything, his presence has a bad effect on electronics. His wife's murderer wears an electronic vision prosthetic, which leads to interesting opportunities for revenge.

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  • "Age Of Dependency"
  • Robert Hogan
  • Issue #158 September 8 2000
  • Old Charlie is a grocery bagger at a grocery store. It's the only thing they will let him do because he does not understand the new technology which runs the store. Charlie doesn't care. He knows that the people who rely on the technology are idiots. The cashiers can't even do simple arithmetic. When the power gets knocked out by an oncoming storm, Charlie becomes the hero when he shows that he can add up the customers' purchases without the high-tech cash register.

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  • "Aftermath"
  • Dietmar Trommeshauser
  • Issue #33 April 17 1998
  • A sad tale about a dark future in which society and its safety nets are collapsing. The story focuses on a family who's young daughter was killed in a random drive-by shooting.

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  • "The Alien in the Gray Flannel Suit"
  • Jay Arr Henderson
  • Issue #81 March 19 1999
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1999
  • A humorous story about a small town reporter who stumbles onto an alien researcher living in his town. It's the Big Story he's been waiting, his ticket to the Big City, Easy Street, Fame and Fortune. He forces the alien into an interview then rapidly becomes frustrated when he discovers that the alien is totally bland, totally boring, here on a totally boring research project examining totally boring things about a totally boring human race. He throws up his hands in frustration and storms out. As the door closes behind him, the alien's disguise collapses, revealing a hideous monster who is greatly relieved that he got rid of the human in time!

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  • "Alison Courliss"
  • James S. Dorr
  • Issue #76 February 12 1999
  • Alison Courliss has a problem; while walking through the city park, her dog gets eaten by a crocodile. In the police station, where she goes to file a report about it, are a reporter looking for a story, an advertising agent trying to deny that the laundry powder samples they gave out through their newspaper are not causing the mysterious foam rising out of the sewers, the two cops who tried the save the dog by shooting at the crocodile and the animal rights activists who are trying to sue the cops. The reporter manages to mangle things to the point that Alison ends up in court on charges of harming an endangered species. A story of an ecology driven past its natural limits.

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  • "An End Of Sorrows"
  • Aaron Emmel
  • Issue #40 June 5 1998
  • A man is stuck in a small country where it rains a lot and he is at the end of his limits. Then he meets another traveller who offers him a book. It is a strange book, with strange things written in it. The man tells him that if he writes something in the book, it will become reality. Could it be true?

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  • "Another Tiger Woman"
  • Kirsten Lincoln
  • Issue #135 March 31 2000
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
  • In ancient China, shame came from being a woman born in the year of the Tiger. One such woman has the added shame of being large and strong. It is a shame she bears quietly, trying not to bring disgrace upon her father more than necessary. Then she encounters one of the young princes beset by enemies and manages to hide him. While tending his wounds, she learns the prince's secret, that he is really a woman. Thus starts a new friendship between royal and peasant, who have secrets to share and enemies to defeat.

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  • "Archibald"
  • Bart Carroll
  • Issue #159 September 15 2000
  • The touching story of a young woman who is scratching out an existence after the human race has been knocked down by an alien invasion. One of the amenities she has managed to get for herself is Archibald, the torso of one of the alien war machines. She has discovered that there is a compartment in its chest which seems to be heated from inside, which makes it a convenient oven. She uses it for baking food and pottery both. To make the war machine a little more appealing, she has painted it with bright colours and given it name. When a leftover of the war comes visiting, Archibald manages to save her.

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  • "The Asking and the Vow"
  • Frank Tuttle
  • Issue #93 June 11 1999
  • Another delightful fantasy tale from Frank Tuttle about two characters who became very popular with the readers of SpaceWays Weekly, Mallara and Burn. Mallara is a sorceress in the employment of the Empire and Burn is a shimmer, a people who have no bodies, but loud booming voices. They are sent to a village to investigate rumours that a troll is standing in the town square. Mallara has her doubts as trolls have not been seen in this area since the war between humans and trolls. But when she arrives, sure enough, there it stands. It tells her that her people once made a vow to the trolls, and the time collect has come. Mallara has no idea what was vowed, but agrees to uphold it. The troll magically sweeps her into another dimension. He explains that the trolls were put in the world to care for the living things. All was well until humans showed up. The war was brutal, killing many on both sides and finally the trolls retreated. But they had forced the humans to agree to providing them with a new world to care for one day. That day was now. The trolls have found a new world but lack the magic to get to it. Mallara uses her magic and her powerful staff to open a gateway for them and the trolls leave, to start a new life in a new world.

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  • "Astronaut Man"
  • Jeff Verona
  • Issue #162 October 6 2000
  • A man is at the space launch centre to take a flight into space, for the burial in orbit of his wife's ashes. He had promised her that some day they would be in space together and this is how he plans to keep that promise. But his son is riding him for being selfish and blowing his life savings on such a foolish thing.

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