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  • "Cat Shape"
  • Gerald Upton
  • Issue #9 October 31, 1997
  • A fantasy story in which a young, inexperienced (expendable) soldier is picked to infiltrate the enemy city and open the gate from inside. He is given an amulet which changes him into a cat. By the end of his adventure, the shape change becomes a natural ability for him.

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  • "Catch Of The Day"
  • C. A. Mehrlein
  • Issue #2 September 12, 1997
  • Men rule the world; or do they? In a quaint little pub in St. John's Newfoundland there hangs a picture of some lobsters sitting at a table playing cards. Which isn't too odd, until the lobsters start coming out to have a beer and reveal that they are the masters of the universe.

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  • "Change"
  • Carol Tompkins
  • Issue #70 January 1 1999
  • A base on a distant planet has a problem; one of their people has killed a native and apparently gone mad in the process. The natives tell the base commander that someone among the humans must make compensation. The base commander presents himself, expecting the aliens to kill him. Instead, the aliens need him to fill the place left vacant by their dead member. The story tells about the changes, physical and mental, that he goes through while living with them.

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  • "Changeling's Dream"
  • C. A. Mehrlein
  • Issue #27 March 6 1988
  • Katja is a girl who begins to have a sense that something is wrong in her life. She starts seeing things about herself that are wrong, almost not human. Or is she? As Katja struggles through a growing unease and sense of displacement, she comes to realize that she is a member of the Faerie Folk, a changeling, and her greatest desire is to return home.

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  • "The Chanter"
  • A. C. Ellis
  • Issue #129 February 18 2000
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
  • An tale with an incredible depth for a short story. The Silver Queen is the total ruler of her world, but she is bored. She demands that one of her aides create a new diversion for her. Enter a mythical person who intrigues even the Queen. But her meeting with him proves to be her downfall when he causes her to die. The people are generally confused but, as time passes and the Queen's machines begin to fall apart and noone harrasses them any longer, they begin to realize that they are finally free of her oppression.

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  • "Chimes"
  • Frederick D. Brown
  • Issue #148 June 30 2000
  • A modern fantasy tale in which two young girls are drawn from the family cottage by the sounds of chimes and become trapped within the trees. Years later, tired of living, their mother returns to the trees to join her daughters.

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  • "Chunk Of Change"
  • Jeff Verona
  • Issue #146 June 16 2000
  • An exgaging story about the life of a scavenger who learned that partners are bad for business. Then he finds an alien ship drifting in a junk field and realizes that he finally hit the find that will make him rich. Except that the alien ship has disabled his own and now he needs help from one of the more successful and universally despised scavengers; for a share of the take. In the middle of a crises, he learns that there are more important things than money and one of them is to have someone around to help you when you're in trouble.

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  • "Class of 3057"
  • David L. Kuzminski
  • Issue #78 February 26 1999
  • On a distant world, the population pressures are severe due to science having conquered all illnesses. With complete immunity to everything, the world is being overrun with people. In order to gain the right to have children, you have to enter a combat college. Each year, the two colleges field their teams in a stadium to take part in the world's favourite sport; watching the college men kill each other for the right to reproduce.

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  • "Coin"
  • Terry Hickman
  • Issue #133 March 17 2000
  • The story of a harried and self-involved business man who gets stuck on a space station between flights. After giving his ticket to a musician, who then dies when the shuttle blows up, the man finds himself in the company of a homeless beggar. He had been angry at the beggar the day before, for asking for money. The experience leaves him open to re-learning how to be human once again.

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  • "The Coming of the Dawn"
  • Lisa Liscoumb
  • Issue #69 December 25 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • An incredible story of love between a vampire and a woman, who struggle to create a normal life for themselves. But their lives cannot be normal as the one-time business partner of the vampire would like to get back to business. To expedite the vampire's cooperation, he kills the woman. After going on a murderous rampage, the vampire sits by the grave of his loved one, awaiting the coming of the dawn.

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  • "Corpus"
  • Andrew Burt
  • Issue #53 September 4 1998
  • A story about a man who is living a quiet life until some people show up and tell him that it isn't real. They tell him it's all a simulation and they would like to help him find out where his body really is and what it's doing. At first, he doesn't believe them, but then he starts to notice things which are not quite right. Eventually, he learns the truth, that his body is being used as an electrical connector in a giant pipe that aliens are building on Earth. But to what purpose?

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  • "Croons the Maiden, 'Unto Virgins Only Come'"
  • Paula L. Fleming
  • Issue #75 February 5 1999
  • A young girl flees from a life she finds intolerable, only to be caught up by unscrupulous people who force her into a whore house. One of the self-defense mechanisms she uses is to gaze out the window and sing to the stars. She sings silently, in her mind so that her masters do not hear. She sings to hide, to soothe herself, to have something that they cannot take from her. One day a rich maiden comes to the city. Claren hears from a city guard that the princess's mother wants to give her a wedding gift of a stuffed and mounted unicorn head. Legend has it, that unicorns only come to virgins so the princess herself would be the bait. Claren is horrified, so she flees from the whore house and escapes the city. She stumbles through the woods, hoping to spoil the hunt, thinking that she might be able to frighten off the unicorn. A unicorn does indeed appear, but he has come for Claren, not the princess. Claren is confused, for she is not a virgin. But the unicorn has come to return something to her; the part of herself that she has sang out to the stars. Now that she is whole once again, she vows to help other unfortunates like herself, wherever they may be. The unicorn takes her up upon his back and the ride off.

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  • "Cut And Paste"
  • Kristin Vann and Sean Sands
  • Issue #161 September 29 2000
  • In the future, a man is dying and doesn't want to. So he agrees to participate in a new genetic experiment. A hospital builds a genetic copy of him as a younger man and copies his memories into it. In this way, he achieves a sort of immortality. But when he is asked to question the clone, to determine how well it was duplicated, he begins to realise that he will not live on in the clone any more than any parent lives on in their child.

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  • "Cycles"
  • Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
  • Issue #153 August 4 2000
  • The life of an insect, told from the perspective of the insect, who's people once had a great civilization but had slipped back into barbarism. While learning that she cannot buck the life cycle, she also strives to push her people back onto the path of greatness.

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