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27 April 2009

[Article by Chris Kammerud]

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ARTICLE: Imagining the Perfect Man: Science Fiction and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, by Chris Kammerud

Franklin's Autobiography isn't characterized by such obvious strangeness as Gulliver's Travels, yet it also presents readers with an imaginative and alternative way of viewing both Franklin's and their own world.

COLUMN: Blasted Horrors, by Matthew Cheney

For a few years, I did not want to admit an attraction to horror stories. It's an odd thing to have done, since if any type of stories have consistently attracted me as a reader, they are horror stories, but nonetheless, when I started coming to terms with the fact that yes, my life as a reader had been and was going to continue to be the life of someone profoundly affected by and attracted to genre fiction, I didn't want to admit that the effect and the attraction included horror fiction.

FICTION: Lily Glass, by Veronica Schanoes

The girl is gone from the castle and her stepmother wanders the corridors. Here is another way of saying the same thing: the girl wanders the corridors, but her stepdaughter is nowhere to be found.

POETRY: Whiskers, by Jamieson Ridenhour

I was bearded with words.

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