Lucky Issue
#13- August, 2003 The full Fortean Bureau staff will be attending TorCon 3 this
week. This will delay issue #14 until September 5th. We appologize if
this causes any distress.
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Six Fortean Flash Fictions
By Rudi Dornemann
"The first time I looked out, I only
saw one of them. Smiling its happy-idiot smile under the scrawny
shelf of a juniper hedge. Peaked yellow cap, muddy red boots, standing
at attention with a shovel in one hand and the other hand hooked
in its belt. Your typical garden gnome."
A Solicitation of Fairies
By Meredith L. Patterson
"Once upon a time, in a kingdom where
fairies were still a serious matter, there lived a King and Queen
who had just had their first child. The girl was the very textbook
definition of a firstborn princess, with golden curls, bright blue
eyes, chubby cheeks and all of the other requisite princessly attributes.
Upon seeing her for the first time, cleaned up and no longer squalling,
her doting parents named her Chantinelle, and set to making preparations
for the christening celebration."
"When Will was sent to fetch his sister
from the park, he didn't mind going because his father had begun
to cry again, right there in the middle of making supper."
"'It makes me angry, it does,' Fripp said. 'The contempt our so-called
government has for its own citizens. They tell us there's no such
thing as Martians, that anyone who sees flying machines is either
mad or lying. Well I've seen them, and lots of local people have
seen them. So there must be Martians.'"
