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Issue 47 of the Chiaroscuro, the "Megazine Issue" is now in its last three days. All of the fantastic authors and poets who contributed their work to help keep ChiZine afloat after suddenly losing its sponsorship will have those works disappear from the web site on July 1, so read them while you can! If you have not yet done so, please consider donating! We almost have enough to pay authors for the remaining six months of 2011.
Here is an extended table of contents, for your convenience. Happy reading!
- FICTION
- All the Pretty Boys by Michael Rowe
- Anna on the Threshold by K. Z. Perry
- Bacchus Anesti by Maria Alexander
- Beer on Sunday by Nick Mamatas
- Before and After by Sunil Sadanand
- Bombay and Mercy Chase the Long Hand by Daniel A. Rabuzzi
- A Bride’s Head, Revisited by Joel Arnold
- The Burn Victim by Sarah Langan
- By Appointment by Leslie Claire Walker
- Champion of Lost Causes by Scott Emerson Bull
- Chanting the Violet Dog Down: A Tale of Noreela by Tim Lebbon
- Consent by Nancy Baker
- The Consumer by Seth Lindberg
- Conventions of the Genre by Jesse Bullington
- The Dilkey Never Landed by Paul Tremblay
- Dirty Money by S. E. Ward
- Dogs Want to Eat You by Ralph Robert Moore
- Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate by Stephen M. Wilson
- Dust Bunnies by Jeremy C. Shipp
- The Eight of Swords by S. Boyd Taylor
- Everyone on Earth by Brett A. Savory
- Familiar Eyes by Barry Hollander
- Final Girl Theory by A. C. Wise
- Fortune by Shira Lipkin
- The Girl with the Halo by Matthew Sanborn Smith
- Grandmother by Samantha Henderson
- Growing Out of It by Mehitobel Wilson
- Hey, Sarge and Regis Toomey by Mort Castle
- Holy Mackerels by Ursula Pflug
- Hotline by David Sakmyster
- I, Cthulhu by Neil Gaiman
- The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe by Elizabeth Bear
- The Informers by Gerard Houarner
- The Insides by Richard Larson
- Just Like the Ones He Used to Know by Robert J. Wiersema
- Lament by Tom Piccirilli
- Last of His Kind by Sandra McDonald
- Late Night Pick-Up by Peter Crowther
- A Little Glimpse by Steve Eller
- Lizards by Brent Hayward
- Machina by An Owomoyela
- Marion’s Knot by Lee Thomas
- Military Secrets of the Zionist Enemy by Lavie Tidhar
- Mindfuck by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
- Motive, Means, Eventuality by Gordon Grice
- Mrs. Kong by Sandra Kasturi
- Night is a Clear Green Gem by Darren Speegle
- Noogle Knock by Robert Swartwood
- Not That Kind Of Town by Daniel Kaysen
- Patterns in White Static by David Niall Wilson
- Payback by P. D. Cacek
- The Performer by Philip Nutman
- The Pillow Book of Liisa Härkönen by Joe L. Murr
- Pisspot Bay by Elizabeth Massie
- Pound Rots in Fragrant Harbour by Lisa Morton
- Protection by Stewart O'Nan
- Radio Nowhere by Douglas Smith
- Reflections on the Critical Process by Mike Carey
- Requiem by Brian Hodge
- Salvation on the Tongues of Djinn by A. M. Muffaz
- Scenes from the Skoobie Revolution by Claude Lalumière
- Signal to Noise by Gemma Files
- Sour Metal by Amber Van Dyk
- The Spider House Rules by Rain Graves
- Suckling by Patricia Russo
- Summer of Love by Livia Llewellyn
- Supernatural by Nadia Bulkin
- The Swordsman by Michael R. Colangelo
- The Tale of the Princess and Her Hero by Robert Boyczuk
- Ten Steps by Richard Thomas
- Things I No Longer Like about God by Tarl Roger Kudrick
- The Third Bride by David de Beer
- Three Legged Bird by Vylar Kaftan
- Tiny Drops by L. L. Hannett
- Unchambered Heart by Jay Lake
- A Viper Among Us by N. R. Brown
- Voodoo Child by Jon Skovron
- W.W.P.D by Patricia Lee Macomber
- Wax and Wane by Grant Palmquist
- A Whispered Apocalypse by Simon Logan
- The Word of God by Nir Yaniv
- Writing Hell by Matt Duvall
- You Must Remember This by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Your Essential Unsung Hero by Nancy Kilpatrick
- POETRY
- 14:46 by A. M. Muffaz
- After Pompeii by Jennifer Jerome
- Beachhead by Marge Simon & Michael Fosburg
- Beneath the Stars, in the Earth by Nancy O. Greene
- Beware of Attics by Andrea Blythe
- Big G & Little J by Tom Piccirilli
- Bluebeard by Joanne Merriam
- Changeling by Myna Wallin
- Children’s Crusade by Donna Farley
- Comet Flyby by John Park
- Darkside by Colleen Anderson
- The Dead Gather at Your Feet by Kiel Stuart
- Eidolons of the Moon by J. E. Stanley
- Evil Soap Opera by Mark McLaughlin
- Experts on Mortality by R. G. Evans
- Fingernails by P. S. Cottier
- Freeloader by Mildred Tremblay
- Glass, Redux by Robyn Herrington
- He Says "Please" so Nicely by Annie Boyle
- How our heroine was made of porcelain by Jana Phipps
- I Live in a Land of Milk and Honey by Wanda Waterman
- If Only People Weren’t Made Out of Meat by James S. Dorr
- Irish Witches by Clara Blackwood
- Jared Sumac poisons the whole damn lot of ’em by Samuel Minier
- Judas Noose Tavern by Charles Clifford Brooks III
- Lake Ontario Looked at During the August New Moon by Peter Block-Hansen
- Looking Glass by Alec Kowalczyk
- Louis in the Morning by Phoebe Wray
- Lucan in Averno by Sonya Taaffe
- The Memory of Burning Bones by Steve Vernon
- Midnight Grocery Shopping in the Icelandic Sagas by Hugh Thomas
- Midnight is a Time for Listening by Lon Prater
- Mississippi Twilight by Chad Hensley
- Mist and Shadows by Helen Marshall
- Moon Ship Sailing by Robin Mayhall
- Mr. Poe’s Last Express by Ed Lynskey
- ms & mr frankenstein by Phyllis Gottlieb
- The Mummy by Francine Lewis
- The Murdermobile by Mark McLaughlin
- My Friend Ernie, Trying to Light a Match by Tom Piccirilli
- My Mother Married Bigfoot by Steve Vernon
- My Skull, the Garage by Bethany Powell
- Neo by Scott E. Green
- Nightfall by Susan A. Manchester
- Nothing but sky overhead by David Clink
- Ode to the Mongolian Death Worm by Sandra Kasturi
- One Quarter Gorgon by Helen Marshall
- The only human things by Peter Bloch-Hansen
- a promise fulfilled by Brian Rosenberger
- Queen Choufa Protects the Drones from the Wrath of Arash-keen by Elizabeth Barrette
- Red Riding Hood Runs from the Wolf by Sèphera Girón
- A Siamese Twin Falls in Love by Halli Villegas
- The Soft Key by Sandra Kasturi
- Some Secret Symphony by Donna Burgess
- Stellate Wound by Jena Snyder
- Sundance by Colleen Anderson
- The Surrender by Rain Graves w/Artwork by Daniele Serra
- Tantalus, Reaching Upwards by Gemma Files
- Tea Party Vamp by Marge Simon
- The Temptation of Little Red Riding Hood by Amal Al-Mohtar
- Their Shades Are Legend by Bruce Boston
- Visitation by Kim Goldberg
- Witch Sticks by Mary E. Choo
- Young Miss Frankenstein Regrets by Camille Alexa
- Zombie Bees of Winnipeg by Carolyn Clink
- BOOK REVIEWS
- Bigfoot War by Eric S. Brown by Ray Wallace
- The Crossing by B. Michael Radburn by Chris Hallock
- Dark Animus 10/11 by by Stephen Studach
- Engines of Desire by Livia Llewellyn by Stephen Studach
- It Came From Del Rio by Stephen Graham Jones by Chris Hallock
- Knuckle Supper by Drew Stepek by Ray Wallace
- Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry by William D. Gagliani
- COLUMNS
- Column: Compromise and the Lost Art of Artistic Vision by David Niall Wilson
- INTERVIEWS
- Tom Piccirilli: Deep Cuts by Edward Whitt
- A Devil’s Dozen: Livia Llewellyn by Stephen Studach
- TRIBUTES
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It's also been a lot of work getting it assembled and doing the database hocus-pokery, so I can't say I'm sorry to see this once-a-week schedule come to an end.
Now, hopefully, I'll have some time to fix the bits that are
broken*ahem* less than optimal...