The Fortean Bureau -- A Magazine of Speculative Fiction

Issue #24- July, 2004

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Fearsome Jones' Discarded Love Collection
by Ken Scholes

"He dug through the blood-matted paper towels, finding a foot and then a hand...both cold. “What has old Fearsome found?” He pulled away the paper like an excited Christmas morning child and gasped at the face it revealed. "

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Pearls and Wisdom
by S. Evans

"Legend said that throwing rocks into the pool north of Jianang would awaken the Dragon Himself. The pool lay undisturbed for generations; legend also said that each rock shortened the thrower’s lifespan by a year."

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The Spiritstream Shoals
by Sharon E. Woods

"Only one red spirit has been caught on the Towers of Galee, eighty-nine years ago by a spinner called but Saleh's Youngest in the chapel records. Had she been able to sell her prize, I imagine we might have known her real name. But when she climbed off the metal weaving of Tower East and back to the world of the breathing, the minister took one look at the vermillion threads wound about her spindles and declared no merchant worthy of them."

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We Stand on the Verge of Getting It On
by Barth Anderson

"Though she dwelt in timelessness, the Diva had an acute sense of time. Every tick of the galaxy was a strike across her heart, reminding the Diva of the excruciating, ubiquitous nearness of her lover (were his dark atoms passing through her light ones right now?) but also the immense distance of time between them. "

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