The Fortean Bureau -- A Magazine of Speculative Fiction

Issue #22- May, 2004

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The Legend of Jake Einstein
by Deborah Layne

"Jake Einstein was a physicist. There are more stories about Jake Einstein than electrons in a bucket of hydrogen ions, but they all tell how Jake was the smartest physicist who ever rode the range."

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With Your Arms Around Me
by Patricia Russo

"The apartment's never been so clean! Before, Mom didn't have time for stuff like mopping the floor or scrubbing the toilet or washing the twins' grubby handprints off the walls. Now, if even a little bitty crumb falls off the table, she's on it like a maniac, ripping off a wad of paper towels and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. If I don't stop her, she'll clean all day and all night. Guess that's my fault, really. Might be that I overtrained her."

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Jitterbuggin'
by Nick Mamatas

"I had a frightful dream three nights ago, one that gave me a glimpse of the primal horror at the very edges of infinity! I was in New York, a city I once lived in for what were easily the two most desperate & horrific years of my life."

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