Published September 1999
Theme: Alternative
“Welcome to our alternative issue. No, not alternative music, although I was a big fan of that genre. Rather, I mean people and things trying different ways to get by. We have…anorexic ghosts and convenience-store zombies; a guy often killed but never dead; an avatar escaped from Mother’s Little Helper; an ever-changing game of golf; melting men and smoking glass in altered-time infernos.”
- Jeffrey Thomas, “Pale Fruit”
- Geoff Stevens, “The Birth of Liquid Desire” (poem)
- Patricia Russo, “Z”
- John Grey, “Instruction List” (poem)
- Shikhar Dixit, “Alive with Death”
- C. A. Gardner, “For David, With Love” (poem)
- Mindy L. Klasky, “Cat and Mouse”
- Karen R. Porter, “Pretty Boy” (poem)
- S. C. Virtes, “Another Inferno”
- Stepan Chapman, “Buzzy Motions” (poem)
- Thomas Deja, “The Smoking Glass Grin”
- Cindy Main, “Dead Sea” (poem)
- Nancy Bennett, “Sickness” (poem)
- Jamie Meyers, “Andy” (poem)
- Leland Neville, “Never the Same Lie Twice”
- Karen R. Porter, “Monsters” (poem)
- Artists: Augie Wiedemann (cover), Lee Seed, Steven J. Snyder