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Beyond the Veil: Book Excerpt – Blood of the Dark Moon

October 22, 2009 by Adrianne Brennan  
Filed under culture, fiction

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  “Jesse, this is most puzzling. There are a lot of references to blood in here, and it’s clear that they’re not necessarily talking about some form of sacrifice. Do you have any light to shed on this?” He blinked but kept his expression steady. “Well, I, um—” Amanda laughed. “It’s okay; I don’t think that this text [...]

Beyond the Veil: The Hidden Earth

July 19, 2009 by J. Michael Glosson  
Filed under culture, fiction

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By the time the Great Galaxy of Andromeda was coming around for its second pass through the Milky Way, before that final series of events that would lead to the merger of two great spirals into one stochastic elliptical galaxy of Milkomeda, we’d managed to irritate two galaxies worth of interstellar civilizations. When the first merger [...]

Beyond the Veil – Sleepless, Nameless

July 19, 2009 by Bret Tallman  
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Christopher Fish just wasn’t built for a normal life, though he did his best. He tried to ignore the stares his pale skin, white hair and faded gray eyes earned him. He learned to stop following certain people around whenever he caught some strangely familiar scent of decay clinging to their skin. He pretended in [...]

The Rapier’s Edge – Follow-Up Interview with Donald Tyson

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Nearly a year ago, I interviewed Donald Tyson regarding his then new book, Grimoire of the Necronomicon. Since then, my review partner, Lon Sarver, and I have been working with Tyson’s system and we’ll present our findings in this the next issue. Mr. Tyson was kind enough to agree to a follow-up interview; you’ll find [...]

Beyond the Veil: Lilith and Eve

April 14, 2009 by J. Michael Glosson  
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As told by one Misha McFatter: In the beginning Sophia created Lilith and Eve in her image, and set them in an Edenic world of bliss where, in the passion of their love play, new ways of being were brought into existence, incarnating as various animals, plants, rocks, storms, rivers, stars, moods, ideas, flavors, and every [...]

Beyond the Veil: Red Engine

April 14, 2009 by Bret Tallman  
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Folks passing through on the naked rock under the high sun would joke that Stonehenge had somehow gotten moved to Arizona. But if they walked closer to the double circle of what they thought were stones, they would see that each marker was actually compacted metal, the crushed carcasses of motorcycles and cars. [...]

Beyond the Veil: Melissa

December 31, 2008 by C. A. Broz  
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1 It was not the worst hangover Melissa had ever had, but it was bad enough. She was grateful her parents were out as she stumbled and retched her way through the morning. By the time they came home shortly before noon, she was recovered enough to pretend she hadn’t avoided alcohol poisoning by [...]

Beyond the Veil: Road Kill From the Ends of Time

December 30, 2008 by J. Michael Glosson  
Filed under culture, fiction

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It is physically impossible to travel through time, until such time as a time machine is created. From that point, theoretically, someone from the future of that time machine could travel back as far as the creation of that time machine, wherever it is anchored in the past. The dinosaurs were the first to figure this [...]