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- "Fields of Amethyst"
- Robert H. Beer
- Issue #58 October 9 1998
- The story of an agricultural project on an alien world. They grow and harvest a plant which is important to the galactic economy. But then, something starts to attack the plants, chewing on them. What bothers the project director is that this world was selected specifically for its lack of animal life. So where are the animals coming from? A wonderful mystery with a surprise ending.
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- "The First of Several Short Sagas From The Life Of Samuel Alexander Micemaster, Snowcat At Large"
- Rusty Miller
- Issue #65 November 27 1998
- Sam is a snowcat who loves mischief and has a rebellious nature. When he becomes aware of the atrocities of mankind, he decides that something must done to preserve the natural world. He tries to rally the animals into a war with man, but gets told that there is nothing that they can do; man is too powerful. But Sam doesn't like to take "no" for an answer, so he starts the war himself. To get things going, he convinces Mount St. Helen to fire the first shot. (RE: the explosion of Mount St. Helen in the 1980's)
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- "Flight Home"
- Bert Ellis
- Issue #24 February 13 1998
- While flying home for Christmas, a passenger goes to the bathroom. When he steps out of the airplane bathroom, he finds himself in his parents' home. They are surprised to see him, exclaiming that they did not hear him come in. In a daze, he spends some time with them, having coffee and pie. Excusing himself, he goes to the bathroom. Opening the door, he is once again in the plane. But there is an emergency and the stewardess is urging him to his seat. As it dawns on him that the plane is going down, he wonders if he had been dreaming--until he finds a spot of pie filling on his shirt. Desperately, he races to the bathroom and closes himself in. With a prayer, he opens the door. . .
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- "Flower Show"
- D. K. Latta
- Issue #176 January 12 2001
- Janice Hunter is a terraforming expert on a deep-space voyage when her ship crashes into an asteroid. A nearby alien race discovers her, barely alive, in the wreckage. At first, while caring for her, they display a total indifference towards this alien. When they learn to communicate and learn of her specialty, they become very interested. They are at war with a neighbouring planet and a terrible weapon is being used to destroy their ecosystem. It causes entropy to occur within hours, causing all life on the planet to age and die, leaving it barren. Janice sets out to try to genetically engineer life forms which can survive the accelerated entropy. She accidentally succeeds in one small way. Unfortunately, she must prevent this new life form from following its natural path in favour of saving the existing dominant species. But when she learns that the weapon destroying this planet was developed by these people, then stolen by the other side and used against them, Janice decides that the little creatures she created have a better claim to life than the aliens.
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- "Flutterwhorls"
- Matt Talluto
- Issue #168 November 17 2000
- Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
- A deeply engrossing story of a woman who wakes up on a beach with no memory of who she is. She keeps encountering a boy, first as a baby, then as three or four years old, then six. Each time she sees this boy in the course of the morning, he is a little older. He then vanishes when she looks away a moment. He then starts asking her to help him find the flutterwhorls. She does and by mid-afternoon, she and the boy find them and set them free. Then she does not see him again for the rest of the day. Just before sunset she discovers an old man lying on the beach and realizes that he is the boy, grown old and dying. She also knows that it is her son, the one she died giving birth to and that she has been meeting him in some sort of afterlife.
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- "Food For The Hungry"
- Robert H. Beer
- Issue #104 August 27 1999
- Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1999
- A reporter follows the trail of a world celebrity, ten years after he has been forgotten, and catches up with him in an African village. When aliens contacted the human race, Andy McAffrey was our chief negotiator. What he finally had to report to the world was that the aliens had no interest in saving us, giving us technology, educating us, inviting us to join a Galactic Union or any of the nonsense that science fiction liked to dwell on. They had just stopped to meet us and find out who we were. In fact, they had nothing more than incidental contact with any other race in the galaxy. The world was furious. But the N'Ktan wanted to leave Andy with a gift and asked him what he wanted. He said that he wanted to feed the hungry. So they gave him a box. When he held the handle and someone poured dirt into the funnel in the top, a bowl inside was filled with a nutrient substance. The only problem is, it only works for him. Now he spends his days holding the handle twice a day while people pour dirt into the funnel and fill their bowls.
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- "Forest Healer"
- Raechel Henderson
- Issue #57 October 2 1998
- An engaging story about a young woman who is a healer. She becomes aware of a young girl, hiding in the woods, who makes her village very nervous. In an attempt to calm the situation, she goes out trying to befriend the girl.
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- "Forever"
- Beth Bernobich
- Issue #138 April 21 2000
- A love story about two people who are immortal in a way. Their lives together keep looping around in time, to be repeated over and over again, forever.
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- "Frog Legs"
- Mark Budman
- Issue #25 February 20 1998
- A humorous story about Len, an electrical engineer with arthritis and poor eyesight. One day, he is approached by a scantily clad woman carrying a sword who emerges from a lake and demands that he slay a dragon. When he meets the dragon, who only eats frogs, the dragon offers him a cashier's cheque for $100,000 if he doesn't kill him. So the dragon moves away, Len gets the money from both the Lady of the Lake and the Dragon and lives happily ever after.
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