Subscribers will soon be receiving their copies of Issue #128 with this fabulous cover by our dear friend Tim Hammell.  This issue features new fiction from M. Ian Bell, Katherine Quevedo, Jeff Hewitt, Terri Favro, Ruth E. Walker (featured in the author interview with Roberta Laurie), Josh Pearce, C.C. Graystone, Robin James, Shannon Taft, and Robert Bagnall.

Poetry from V.C. Myers, Jade Wallace and Alexander Etheridge.

There’s a new cartoon and a Bot from Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk. We are also told that a 2025 Bot Calendar is in the works. If you are interested, let us know and we can pass the message along to Lynne.

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Costs of production and mailing have increased, with grant funding decreasing, so we will be looking at increasing our subscription rates later this year for the first time in many years. Subscribe and renew now to save yourself some $$. While you are at it, buy a subscription for a friend or family member.

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