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Stories Published January 2012

The Long Con

By Megan R. Engelhardt • Flash • Published on Jan 31, 2012 • Topic: Fairy Tales

Visiting Planet Earth

By Eric Brown • Flash • Published on Jan 30, 2012 • Topic: Aliens

Good Taste

By Derek Ivan Webster • Short Story • Published on Jan 27, 2012 • Topic: Future Societies

By James Luke Worrad • Flash • Published on Jan 26, 2012 • Topic: Other Worlds

The Death and Rebirth of Anne Bonny

By Nancy Fulda • Short Short • Published on Jan 25, 2012 • Topic: The Numbers Quartet

Inconstant Nature

By Colum Paget • Short Short • Published on Jan 24, 2012 • Topic: Disaster

Midnight at River's Edge

By Ron Collins • Flash • Published on Jan 23, 2012 • Topic: Biotech

The Stoker Memorandum

By Lavie Tidhar • Long Short Story • Published on Jan 20, 2012 • Topic: Alternative History

The Professor's Boy

By Erik Goranson • Flash • Published on Jan 19, 2012 • Topic: Nanotech

All or Nothing

By Nancy Fulda • Flash • Published on Jan 18, 2012 • Topic: The Numbers Quartet

Dumb as Dirt

By Garth Upshaw • Flash • Published on Jan 17, 2012 • Topic: Monsters

Do I Tell Her?

By Steven L Peck • Flash • Published on Jan 16, 2012 • Topic: Clones

Sixty-one by Seventy

By K.G. Jewell • Short Story • Published on Jan 13, 2012 • Topic: Space Travel

Into the Forest

By Dana Dupont • Flash • Published on Jan 12, 2012 • Topic: Monsters

Things Exist by Imitation of Numbers

By Benjamin Rosenbaum • Short Short • Published on Jan 11, 2012 • Topic: The Numbers Quartet

Electric Company

By Melissa Mead • Short Short • Published on Jan 10, 2012 • Topic: SF/Fantasy

Look Who Came to Dinner

By Susan Franceschina • Flash • Published on Jan 9, 2012 • Topic: Aliens

Calling Down the Moon

By Diana Sherman • Short Story • Published on Jan 6, 2012 • Topic: Science Fiction

Saviors

By James Beamon • Short Short • Published on Jan 5, 2012 • Topic: Future Societies

The Mind of Allah

By Stephen Gaskell • Short Short • Published on Jan 4, 2012 • Topic: The Numbers Quartet

Still Life Through Water Droplets

By D. Thomas Minton • Short Short • Published on Jan 3, 2012 • Topic: Clones

Happy Birthday

By Sara Thustra • Flash • Published on Jan 2, 2012 • Topic: Space Travel

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