Issue 15 - April 2008

There's no theme for our fiction this issue - just a collection of great stories on any and every subject! We hope you enjoy them.

	Almost Home by Don Bellew Old friends, and what might have been, if  . . . .
	Angus By J E Mountney You can find love after you thought you never would, even if you are a small town lawyer.  But there is a right way and a wrong way.
	Brian By J A Zecca Sometimes we don't have the words to say what we really think.  Until it's too late.
	Saving Lazlo By Alyx J Shaw Seth and Lazlo met through Seth's sister.  And they became best friends.  Until Lazlo's lover did the dirty on him, and Seth got more than he bargained for.
	Strip Search By Victor J Banis It isn't every day you get a handsome cop after your tired old body.  But then, this is no ordinary cop.
	Tom or an Improbable Tail By  Ruth Sims What -- or who --exactly is William's bed?
	Remembering Teft By Barry Eysman Teft was perfect. He was a grand lover. He was an even better friend.
	Rash Moments By Fiona Glass Sometimes you have to get what you want by being slightly  . . . . devious.
	An Unconventional Family By Anel Viz "People called her Miss Understanding, and they called her youngest sister, who had given birth to and was now bringing up an illegitimate child, Miss Conception.  It was an unforgiving, sharp-tongued community.  The middle sister, whom her sister’s fatherless pregnancy had so upset that she took to her bed for a week and still wept over it sometimes at night though the boy was now two years old, was known as Miss Demeanor."

Two serials -- a Regency romance with a difference (Georgette Heyer eat your heart out!) and part two of Devil Kat's delicious fantasy serial  (Part one can be found in the Archives ).

 Enjoy! 

	Sorcerers in Suits 2 After Hours by Devil Kat "He snapped the tie like a whip from his fingers, and grabbed the bloodstone hilt of the Shadowed blade it became with practiced grace.  Fire flowed down his body, his imported suit turning into leaf-patterned armor, his body Changing even as his defenses rose."
	Regency Relations 1 by Damerel "The Dowager found herself studying the features of her eldest son as he looked out of the carriage window. He was a good looking boy, there could be no doubt of that, and she was sincerely fond of him, yet there was something in his manner she didn't understand, and had never been able to understand. His was a reserved character; he was not one who made friends easily, but those few he made were for life."
	Regency Relations 2 by Damerel "The Duke shook his head slowly, holding Iphicles' eyes. 'I hoped we might improve our acquaintance.' Iphicles was caught between that swift uprush of exhilaration which he was beginning to feel more and more often in the Duke's presence, and a sudden very peculiar feeling such as he imagined a fly might feel, caught upon a web. Shaking his head slightly, he rapidly dispelled the illusion. There was no conceivable reason for his sudden odd fancy, unless it was too much wine on an empty stomach."

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