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Here are six reports from the January and Feb 2003 issues of The Publication of Fantasy & Research Fiction, simultaneously more current plus more real human than today's headlines.
M. Shayne Bell's "Anomalous Set ups of My Dreams" is defined in his hometown of Salt Lake City. The narrator, caught in a medical center bed, discovers that there is danger of infection from his roommate, and a lot better danger as well - to the cloth of life itself.
In "Vandoise and the Bone Monster," Alex Irvine uses a distinctive narrative device to explore the ways that stories survive as time passes, showing his matter for the land Out Western world, and to notify a bone-chilling tale.
Established on the Gulf on Mexico, Albert E. Cowdrey's "Grey Superstar" unleashes a hurricane of horror.
"Old Virginia" by Laird Barron takes place during a local CIA operation removed bad, and implies a new hypothesis about the lost Roanoke Colony of 1588, and, indeed, a new theory of bad.
Ursula K. Le Guin's cautionary tale of sociological ecology, "The Seasons of the Ansarac," is from her forthcoming collection, Changing Planes, and handles a complex and beautiful alien culture.
And finally, Sheila Finch's new history, "Reach," targets an excellent dancer, and on how difficult it can be to stand out in one's chosen field.