New Issue: 2010.21

And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey–don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride...” And we... kill those people.
-- Bill Hicks

Issue 2010.21

• ‘How You Make the Straight’, RJ Astruc (illustrated by Eric Asaris)
• ‘The Issuance of One Hundred and Thirty-Six ’, Mark Harding (illustrated by Cécile Matthey)
• ‘This is What I Look Like Now’, Sara Hosey (illustrated by G. Edwin Taylor)
• ‘Drafting Zoë’, Kelly Jennings

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New Issue: 2010.20

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolt.
-- Mark Twain

Issue 2010.20

• ‘Silence’, Alex Fleetwood (art by Teresa Tunaley)
• ‘Titanium and Silk’, Nick Poniatowski (art by Rebecca Whitaker)
• ‘Merlin's Dolphin’, Erika Tracy (art by Miguel Santos)

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New Issue: TFF 2010.19

Надо изображать жизнь не такою, как она есть, и не такою, как должна быть, а такою, как она представляется в мечтах.
(Life should be shown not as it really is, nor as it ought to be, but rather as it would be in our dreams)
—Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

Issue 2010.19

• ‘Drown or Die’, Therese Arkenberg (art Cécile Matthey)
• ‘Reflection’, Jessica E. Birch (art Carmen Moran)
• ‘Fragmentality’, Sandra M. Odell (art Bonnie Brunish)
• ‘Silent Song’, Wendy Palmer (art Robin E. Kaplan)
• ‘Daughters of Hralln’, C.L. Rossman (art Rachel H. White)

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New Issue: TFF 2009.18

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
--Mark Twain

Fiction

• Nasmina's Black Box, Jennifer Marie Brissett (artwork by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein)
• Maryann Saves the World, Michael J. DeLuca (artwork by Carmen Moran)
• All the Way, Graham Storrs (artwork by Sarah Cerulean)

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New Issue: TFF 2009.17

Homme, es-tu capable d'être juste?
C'est une femme qui t'en fait la question; tu ne lui ôteras pas du moins ce droit. Dis-moi? Qui t'a donné le souverain empire d'opprimer mon sexe? Ta force? Tes talents? [...] L'homme seul... veut commander en despote sur un sexe qui a reçu toutes les facultés intellectuelles; il prétend jouir de la Révolution, et réclamer ses droits à l'égalité, pour ne rien dire de plus.
—Olympe de Gouges, Déclaration des droits de la femme (1791)

Fiction

• The Overdue Protocols, Alexander Burns (art by Rebecca Whitaker)
• Neap Tide, Don Norum (art by Robin E. Kaplan)
• Shadows in the Mirror, Todd Thorne (art by Christina Cartwright)
• Wingspan, Aliya Whiteley (art by Martin Hanford)

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New Issue: TFF 2009.16

Men might regard economic equality with favor or disfavor, according to their economic positions, but every woman, simply because she was a woman, was bound to be for it as soon as she got it through her head what it meant for her half of the race.
—Edward Bellamy, from Equality (1897)

• Wings So Foreign, Frank Ray Ard (art by Arianna Ciula)
  
• The Contractor, Terry Grimwood (art by Teresa Tunaley)
• Galatea's Stepchildren, Sam S. Kepfield (art by Rachel H. White)
• Only the Dogs Bark, Dawn Lloyd (art by Bonnie Brunish)
• 10%, Edward W. Robertson (art by Douglas Draper)
  
• The Recycled Man, part 2, Rob Sharp (art by Cécile Matthey)

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New Issue: TFF 2009.15

There is no solution except the freedom of woman—which means, of course, the freedom of the masses of the people, men and women, and the ceasing altogether of economic slavery.
— Edward Carpenter (1896)

• Respite Time, Eric Del Carlo (illustrated by Paul Downes)
• The Transmigration, Nader Elhefnawy (illustrated by Joy E. MacMillan)
• Ephemeral Love, Melanie Rees (illustrated by Miguel Santos)
• The Recycled Man, part 1, Rob Sharp (illustrated by Carmen)

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New Issue: TFF Issue 2008.14

Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
-- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.

• Until the Pit is Dug for the Wicked, John Kratman (artwork: Cécile Matthey)
• A Rock by Any Other Name, Rick Novy (artwork: G. Edwin Taylor)
• Less Than the Sum of the Movable Parts, Richard Thieme (artwork: Christina Cartwright)

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