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Table of Contents
Weirdbook
VOL. 2, NO. 8 ISSUE 38
Features
From the Editor’s Tower, by Doug Draa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Stories
HARLOT ROAD, by Michael Bracken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
WITH A POET’S EYES, by John C. Hocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
THE WISHING WELL, by Robert Graves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
O KING OF PAIN AND SPLENDOR!, by Darrell Schweitzer . . . . . . . . . 28
YOU’D DO IT FOR DIAMONDS, by Adrian Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
DREADFUL APPETITE, by Franklyn Searight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
THE HANDMAID OF THE KEY, by R.C. Mulhare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
BLUE MOON, by Allen Mark Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
SHE WHO GIVES LIFE, by C. I. Kemp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
AN IMPLEMENT OF ICE, by W. H. Pugmire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
NIGHT OF THE CIRCUS, by Sharon Cullars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
WOLVERS HILL, by Tim Jeff reys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
RAFTS, by Lorenzo Crescentini. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
CLEAN SWEEP, by Edward Ahern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
LEAVING MALAGA, by Cynthia Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
CATTLE CALL, by Gregg Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
ABOMINATION IS HER NAME, by J.N. Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
KACHINA, by Kenneth Bykerk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
FLAT IS FLAT AND THAT IS THAT, by David J. Gibbs . . . . . . . . . . 168
DEATH IS NOT MY MASTER, by Scott Harper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Poetry
THE OLD ROCK, by Russ Parkhurst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SLEEPING WITH MAD SHADOWS, by Frederick J. Mayer . . . . . . . . 130
THE LIQUID PROFESSOR, by Jeff Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
THE TOAD STOOL PEOPLE, by Chad Hensley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
THE PROMISE OF A POLIDORI SORE THROAT, by Clay F. Johnson . . 186
THIS HUNGRY EARTH, by S.L. Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Artwork
Alexandra Petruk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Front Cover
Allen Koszowski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interior Artwork
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