The Ape's Wife (part 1 of 2)
by Caitlin R. Kiernan

From the September 2007 issue

Neither yet awake nor quite asleep, she pauses in her dreaming to listen to the distant sounds of the jungle approaching twilight. They are each balanced now between one world and another — she between sleep and waking, and the jungle between day and night. In the dream, she is once [...]

Lost Soul
by M P Ericson

From the September 2007 issue

He kept his eyes lowered to avoid bringing evil. All he saw were his own toes scuffling through a drizzle of tulsi-scented sawdust.
At the pandit’s door he stopped, blew three times on the fingers of his right hand, and knocked.
Jagan’s wife opened [...]

Big Octopus
by Chen Lin

From the September 2007 issue

I started working on CG in 2005; in 2006 I entered Webzen China as a background designer. In my spare time, I like to paint scientific and fantastic objects, such as aircrafts and aliens…

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