Curse
by Samantha Henderson

From the December 2007 issue

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Her son was a year grown when the dream started. Always it began in the pantry, at first — she was tallying the beer, or the bags of grain, when the first joints of her fingers started to itch. Little more than a prickling warmth, then a fierce burning, and as [...]

The Buried Years
by Loreen Heneghan

From the December 2007 issue

Dearest Marcella,
My love, in the course of our letters I may not have told you how distressed I become upon seeing skeletons. I find myself revolted by their empty eyes and the unhinged way they walk through the streets at dusk. A better man would be respectful, but — imperfect soul [...]

Threads of Red and White
by Lisa Mantchev

From the December 2007 issue

Story removed at author’s request. We hope it will return soon.

Steven Erikson: No Lies, No Holding Back
by Jeff VanderMeer

From the December 2007 issue

Steven Erikson has built up a loyal and devoted following for his Malazan novels, which first began appearing from Bantam UK in the 1990s, when he made news by selling a series of ten novels in an extraordinary high-six-figure deal. Erikson is known for writing gritty, realistic fantasy fiction that subverts [...]

Steel Chair through the Looking Glass:
The Fractured Fantasy World of Professional Wrestling
by Jason S. Ridler

From the December 2007 issue

INTRODUCTION
Pro wrestling is a form of fantasy storytelling, though Wrestlemania is never reviewed in Locus, the pseudo history of championship belts has no place in John Clute’s encyclopaedias of fantasy or science fiction, and there are no directions to "Parts Unknown" in Alberto Manguel’s Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Perhaps [...]

Sunken City
by Michael Brack

From the December 2007 issue

Michael is an autodidact artist specialized in dark art, both traditional and digital…

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