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Missiles Put To Better Use

Margaret Lazarus Dean mourns the end of the space-shuttle program

engines lit up the sky. Only after Atlantis had been in the air a few long seconds – long enough that our heads were tipped back to follow it –…

Once Upon a Time in South Beach

In Cloaked Alex Flinn puts a modern spin on some timeless tales

…eye, and a special hearing device that enables him to understand the speech of enchanted animals, Johnny sets off to follow the princess’s quest and fulfill his destiny. He needs…

Digging Up Evil

Jefferson Bass’s sixth Body Farm novel excavates unpleasant truths

…Bone Yard with very little fictional enhancement, is enough to distress even the most jaded readers of crime drama. The institutional sadism he uncovers certainly upsets the normally easygoing Brockton:…

"Look Away, Look Away"

alive even in the new millennium, in email jokes about dumb Yankees, rancorous flare-ups over the Confederate flag, in redneck comedy tours, and even in my own sorry bile when

"Always Upstream or Downstream"

…The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, Meridian, Southern Poetry Review, and Zone 3. “Always Upstream or Downstream” first appeared in The Florida Review. Always Upstream or…

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