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Say...was that a kiss?

68 pages of answers, questions, hypotheses, theorums, profs, proofs, more

Table of Contents

Cover Art
by Tom Canty

Short Stories

Ohkami
by Kristin Livdahl

Arrange the Bones
by Jay Lake

The Secret Identity
by Richard Butner

With No Language
by Mikal Trimm

Lips
by Chris Barzak

Unfairy Tale
by Tim Pratt

The Chambered Nautilus
by Jeffrey Ford

Demon, Star, Alien, Cat
by Greg van Eekhout

Gypsy Joe
by ML Konett

The Sexual Component of Alien Abduction (Three-Headed Alien Blues)
by F. Brett Cox

The Child in Society
by Scott Westerfeld

The Mark
by Justine Larbalestier

Essays

Fairy-kist by Terri Windling

Poems

Forever-tron
by H. Courreges LeBlan

What the Pink Book Said
by Sophie Levy

The Kiss: A Romantic Clogyrnach by K. Alma Peterson

Lost in Urban Landscaping #17
by Y. Max Valentonis

13 reasons you'd rather kiss a blackbird
by Laurel Winter

 

The Fortress of Words

First: ...is this a cat?

Then: Say... was that a kiss?
F&SF review
"Charmingly bizarre"
-- Locus, Feb. 2003

A series of questions answered by skilled artisans, wise animals, wizened tree spirits, and women and men of distinction.


Say...was that a kiss?

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