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"assembles strong stories and poems from Scott Westerfeld, Richard Butner, F. Brett Cox, and over a dozen other talents. And Jeffrey Ford's "The Chambered Nautilus" makes this issue a must-have."
-- Asimov's

Answers, questions, hypotheses, theorums, profs, proofs, more

Table of Contents

Cover Painting
by Mark Rich

Short Stories

Clean City
by Greg van Eekhout

Drifting
by Richard Butner

Fear of Tall Buildings
by Mark Rich

Long Past Midnight
by David Moles

Pure Moment
by Christopher East

Saga of the Raiding Team
by Kristin Livdahl

The Cannon
by Kelly Link

The First Day of School
by Jana Phipps

Non Fiction

Interview with John Kessel
by Richard Butner & Gwenda Bond

Poems

History of Minneapolis
by Kevin Corrollo

This Next Time
by Gavin J. Grant

To Everything, a Season
by Sonya Taaffe

When They Change
by Sandra Lindow

 

The Fortress of Words

First: ...is this a cat?

Then: Say... was that a kiss?
"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...what time is it?

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The Fortress of Words and its various questions may be open to submissions. Questions can be sent to this address:

The Fortress of Words
PO Box 1304
Lexington, KY 40511-1304