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  • "The Last Gospel"
  • G. W. Thomas
  • Issue #116 November 19 1999
  • Once, the rainbow man found a genie. And he wished for the end of war on a planet. But the genie decides that he should do a trial run to allow the rainbow man to see how his wish would affect the world. The rainbow man learns that all of the things he finds beautiful and desirable arise from the roots of the fear, enslavement and war he hopes to abolish.

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  • "The Last Penny"
  • Karen Travis
  • Issue #151 July 21 2000
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 2000
  • An old woman is struggling with the end of currency. In a short time, all paper currency and coin are to be handed in and everything will be done with a bar code imbedded in your hand. But she has spent her life saving change in jars and banks and feels that she will miss it. She decides to take her remaining coin collection and spend it friviously in the few remaining days that it is valid currency. That's when she befriends a young man who lives outside of society. He does not have a bar code and cannot access anything. Together, they learn that change has to be dealt with, not avoided.

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  • "The Last Spelling Bee"
  • Stephen D. Rogers
  • Issue #145 June 9 2000
  • An elementary school is having its annual spelling bee, a contest in which students are given a word from a dictionary and they must create a magic spell for that word. The winner gets some very nice prizes. Things are going well until young Daniel gets the word armageddon.

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  • "Lady Goblin"
  • Rob Vanderwoude
  • Issue #23 February 6 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • A fantasy tale which starts just after the brutal battle between the Goblins and Humans. A goblin chief has had his tribe decimated and now fears being finished off by other goblin tribes. But he has captured one of the human mages who was badly burned. He decides to try to heal the human and sway him to help defend his tribe. He tells his priest to get to work healing him. He then selects a young female to nurse-maid human. He chooses her because she once lived with humans and knows their ways. In the end, the blind mage and the goblin lady fall in love.

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  • "The Least She Could Do"
  • Mark Rudolph
  • Issue #166 November 3 2000
  • In the future, when people begin to suffer from a disease which deprives them of their memories, they are herded up and trained to do menial tasks. This happens to Opal's friend Nina. When Opal visit's a restaurant, she sees one of these retrained people cavorting in front of the restaurant dressed in a clown suit. The poor woman was oblivious to the down pour of rain. As Opal is driving away, she realizes that it is her friend Nina. Not knowing how to handle the situation, Opal drives into what is left of her friend, killing her and sparing her from further indignities.

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  • "Let The Beauty Sleep"
  • Magee Gilks
  • Issue #113 October 29 1999
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1999
  • A humorous revision of the Sleeping Beauty tale in which Prince Charming finds out that getting what you wish for is not always a good thing!

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  • "Limits"
  • Terry Hickman
  • Issue #62 November 6 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • One of the most touching of the human stories we ever published. The psyche cases of Earth are no longer a problem, because the Earth has stuck them into "tin cans in space"; stations orbiting the sun at the edge of our solar system. This is the heart breaking story of the patients who live in one of these stations and the psychiatrist who cares for them.

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  • "Locoweed"
  • Bill Vernon
  • Issue #136 April 7 2000
  • Not truly a science fiction story, but a delightful characterization of a cowboy with a sense of the supernatural.

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  • "The Long Arm of the Law"
  • D. K. Latta
  • Issue #66 December 4 1998
  • Winner of The Readers' Choice Award 1998
  • An odd mix of genres (SF and Western) which worked so well as to win the Readers' Choice Award. It is the story of an RCMP officer who almost dies in an ambush, due to losing his arm. He stumbles upon the remains of another fight in the woods. He passes out. When he awakens, he has a new arm, not a human one, and no memory of how it got there. But he needs to settle a score with the men who left him for dead and he goes hunting, only to uncover a thicker plot than he originally conceived; one involving aliens invading Earth.

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  • "Looking Into Paradox"
  • S. D. Campbell
  • Issue #114 November 5 1999
  • A woman in a research lab, investigating the nature of time, finds herself trapped within a looping paradox after some catastrophe strikes the building. Now she must unravel the puzzle and find a way to escape, for the paradox shows her the future and she finds herself dead in a collapsed part of the building.

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  • "Love In Vain"
  • Al Pope
  • Issue #18 January 2 1998
  • A story set in the future, after the human race has been subjugated by an alien race. The women have all been taken away in order to maintain control over the men. In this world, one man struggles to survive. Part of his survival is playing Blues on his guitar and now his strings are broken and he must find more.

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  • "The Lowest of the Low"
  • Alyson Cresswell Moorcock
  • Issue #112 October 22 1999
  • A young woman flees her cruel master by stowing away upon a starship. Once discovered, the captain keeps her on as a junior crew member. But the woman finds herself still on the bottom of the ladder as a belligerent crew member starts to boss and bully her, now that there is someone lower than himself. While sitting on a planet, she is standing watch one night when the local inhabitants steal her away. But she manages to establish a kind of telepathic communications with them. Once she is able to report back to the captain, she finds that she will no longer be the lowest of the low.

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