WELCOME TO THE 20TH ISSUE OF THE FREEZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION
For this extra special edition of our nonprofit cyber-rag, we're featuring four short stories: INEVITABLE, by Sanford Meschkow, MEERGA by John Shirley, THE RECIDIVIST by Brian "Flesheater" Stoneking, and LATE NIGHT EXTERMINATOR by Vincent Daemon; in addition, we close out this special commemorative issue with five poems by Bruce Boston reprinted from the 1992 Horror's Head Press collection he co-authored with Robert Frazier CHRONICLES OF THE MUTANT RAIN FOREST.
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INEVITABLE by Sanford Meschkow art by Les Bossinas for NASAClick the images below to read the stories and poems in this issue:
In this vision of a crew aboard the space craft Ultima Thule, the author explores the questions of whether it's a commanding officer's duty to motivate junior officers toward a promotion along with more startling inquiries into the nature of their mission to space.
MEERGA by John Shirley art (detail) by Will Ferret
In this moving short story about a near future where synthetic women are mass produced as sexual pets, the author looks beneath the genetically modified skin to peer deeply into our real human condition. Here's a tale about the triumph of the human spirit battling sexual objectification at its most perversely extreme.
THE RECIDIVIST by Brian "Flesheater" Stoneking art by Jason Heckenliable
Personnel in hazmat suits at a military quarantine lab are holding a very special prisoner in lockdown. He is the perfect killing machine and carries with him a terrible secret. It's up to General Manning and his crew at the research station to insure this rogue agent does not escape to kill again.
LATE NIGHT EXTERMINATOR by Vincent Daemon art by Kara Koma
We return to Vincent Daemon's twisted world of Dolton, Pennsylvania with the mis- adventure of Lee, who is not a doctor nor a paramedic, he's an exterminator. He fucking kills bugs. Lee's seen a lot of sick things in and around this tweaker town. Lee's ready for the job when he gets a desperate call after midnight. The question for our readers remains: are you prepared?
5 poems by Bruce Boston from CHRONICLES OF THE MUTANT RAIN FOREST
And that's a wrap for the 20th issue (count 'em)of the FREEZINE of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I want to give an emphatic shout out and props to the following authors and artists for having dared to contribute their outstanding stories and artwork to keep this free experimental weblog/zine going well into it's seventh year. Thank you to Sanford Meschkow, John Shirley, Brian Stoneking, Vincent Daemon, and Bruce Boston for contributing your original material to our cause. Thank you to Marge Simon for the four beautiful watercolors that went along with the first four Mutant Rain Forest poems; and thank you to Shasta Lawton for contributing the banner art in addition to the illustration for the fifth Mutant Rain Forest poem. A heap of thanks goes out to Jason Heckenliable for allowing the use of my cellphone snapshot of his reptoid painting for Flesheater's The Recidivist; thanks to Brother Chief Cat Will Ferret for his gracious contribution providing a visual counterpoint to John Shirley's story; and a million thanks goes out to Kara Koma for her bugged out illustration used in Vinnie's Late Night Exterminator.
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ReplyDeleteim a stud in NY and i ant scored once!" im not a fool...you know that. im a a maggot on a diemound - & you r the diemound that im paraistcally feeding off. my add . callec6@gmail.com wow! that was alot of writing more than more this week (1 week = 4 syablles) SO Lets get together write now in swwet harmony BECOZ YOUR COMMENTS Which are geniunlly funny and consrutive which kinda make upfor 14 yrs of itellectaiile FAMIN*. p.s this is not a joke im spilling my guts - confesing the world
too type! im on the edge of tears ... "Don't wait too be hunted too hide, that was always my motto" - Molloy, Beckett........ yours sinserally Cal Leckie spk soon I hope.
Delete“Are we, intellectual sirs, not actively or passively 'producing' more and more words, more books, more articles, ceaselessly refilling the pot-boiler of speech, gorging ourselves on it rather, seizing books and 'experiences', to metamorphose them as quickly as possible into other words, plugging us in here, being plugged in there, just like Mina on her blue squared oilcloth, extending the market and the trade in words of course, but also multiplying the chances of jouissance, scraping up intensities wherever possible, and never being sufficiently dead, for we too are required to go from forty to the hundred a day, and we will never play the whore enough, we will never be dead enough”
Delete― Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy....took me a long time to find this qoute about 3 hrs to long
Callum Leckie I remember you the ghost of yr image haunts me through static electricity - - thanks for taking the time to comment so profusely, seems I hooked a live one after all this time and it's about time I tell you. Keep checking yr callec6@gmail.com inbox, I will be sure to email you soon and by that I mean any time which often remains unpredictable especially when you're sitting on and/or watching the pot. Thanks for checking out the FREEZINE now in it's 8th year, I will continue putting this cyberrag out in my own good time, and as for mentoring and working with you on generating word texts with which to poison the world to the point of madness, why it sounds like a rollicking endeavor so just give me some time to gather my wits, of which there's only one, it's around here somewhere so be patient. My cathode crystal tells me you moved here from the UK, no? In the core of the rotten old apple no less. Stay tuned to this same bat channel and if you haven't already "Followed" this Freezine on Blogger I'll assume you'll do so now--we need the boost in membership as this here remains a rather elite motley crew of random souls gathered together for some of the best fiction and artwork this side of Sagittarius-A*
Delete*Yours in cybertext {Bruce Boston coined that phrase I might add} Shaun L.