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Kat Beyer’s Cabal story “A Change In Government” has been nominated for a BSFA award for best short fiction.

Susannah Mandel’s short story “The Monkey and the Butterfly” is in Shimmer #11. She also has poems in the current issues of Sybil’s Garage, Goblin Fruit, and Peter Parasol.

Angela Slatter’s story ‘Frozen’ will appear in the December 09 issue of Doorways Magazine, and ‘The Girl with No Hands’ will appear in the next issue of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.

David Kopaska-Merkel’s book of humorous noir fiction based on nursery rhymes, Nursery Rhyme Noir 978-09821068-3-9, is sold at the Genre Mall. Other new books include The zSimian Transcript (Cyberwizard Productions) and Brushfires (Sams Dot Publishing).

From a bartender in the East Village

by Kat Beyer

I used to live under the ocean. I was there for about a week. The rent’s okay, the girls are cute even if they have fins, but there’s no coffee. I had gotten into that poem by T. S. Eliot, you know, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: “I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” So I moved. But it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. The thing about lobsters and other ragged claw types is, they’re not very intellectual. You’re better off talking to the starfish.

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