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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. --Herman Hesse BRIAN'S HAND [...]

THE RAIN FALLS IN SHEETS across the yard, another pane of glass beyond our windows. Would you like it warmer, Mr. Gill? The house pings once. Twice. "No," I say. […]

OUTSIDE MY OFFICE, I HEAR the rubbery squeal of a wheelchair, followed by the damp exhalation of a sick child's sigh. The shadow of the pumpkin-headed boy, Jonny, crosses the […]

MELODIE KICKED HER HEELS restlessly against her wheelchair footrests. At last he had come. The bare whiff of bitter smoke told her that John, her Friendly Visitor, had lit his [...]

Amy, Casil reports that her first short-story collection, Without Absolution, should be available from the Wildside Press by the time this issue comes off the presses. Her new story for [...]

MACADAM'S CIRCUS HAD played out their week in Fontana, forty miles east of L.A., when Joshie the Clown found Little Bear. Joshie was packing up the VR headsets in the [...]