Clarkesworld #216, September 2024

Clarkesworld #216, September 2024 “The Music Must Always Play” by Marissa Lingen “Broken” by Laura Williams McCaffrey “The Children I Gave You, Oxalaia” by Cirilo Lemos “A Theory of Missing Affections” by Renan Bernardo “Fish Fear Me, You Need Me” by Tiffany Xue “How to Remember Perfectly” by Eric Schwitzgebel “Those Who Remember the World” …

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Apex #146, September/October 2024

Apex #146, September/October 2024 “Kizimbani” by Eugen Bacon and Clare E. Rhoden “And Someone Has to Do It” by Koji A Dae “A Tapestry of Dreams” by Victor Forna “What Good Daughters Do” by Tia Tashiro “The Price of Moss” by Akis Linardos “The Eight Things You’ll Never Be Now That You’re Slowly Turning Into …

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The Black Museum — “The Pink Powder Puff”

“The Black Museum. A Repository of Death. Here in the grim stone structure on the Thames which houses Scotland Yard is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects . . . all are touched by murder.”  The Black Museum (1952) aired “The Pink Powder Puff” (in the United States and as near as historians can …

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Forgotten Lore Two: The Cry of Hounds, ed. Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Forgotten Lore Two: A Cry of Hounds edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail (NeoParadoxa, August 2024, pb, 299 pp.) “The Night of the Howling Wind” by Ef Deal “The Adventure of the Exploding Airship” by John L. French “A Grecian Pawse” by Doc Coleman “The Vampire of Rannoch Moor” by David Lee Summers “Amber Waves of Bane” …

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Dragons, Cats, & Formidable Femmes by Jean Marie Ward

Dragons, Cats, & Formidable Femmes by Jean Marie Ward (with an introduction by Jody Lynn Nye) (Ginger Blue Publishing, July 2024, 461 pp. Kindle, pb.) “Lord Bai’s Discovery” (reprint, not reviewed) “Most Dead Bodies in a Confined Space” (reprint, not reviewed) “Hoodoo Cupid” (reprint, not reviewed) “Yesterday I will” (reprint, not reviewed) “The Taxman Cometh” …

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Offshoots: Humanity Twigged, edited by Juliana Rew

Offshoots: Humanity Twigged Edited by Juliana Rew (Third Flatiron Anthologies, Summer/Fall, July 2024, 238 pp., pb) “Another Day, Another Me” by Catherine Weaver “Monad” by Jackson Willis “Smarthouse Revolution” by Curtis James McConnell “The Magic of AI” by M. Richard Eley “Rogue Garden, Rogue Gardener” by John A. Frochio “Ginger” by Robin Pond “Software” by …

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