Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of November 27, 2004

10 articles in this issue.


Fever Dreams 021 by Sand Pilarski — Comic

Casual Fridays in the Antarctic.

That's Life 20 by John Queen — Comics

Osama Bin Laden urges Americans to reflect on the lessons learned from 9/11 and That's Life is happy to oblige.

Contests: Annie Dillard Award by Gillespie and Queen — News

Now through March 15, 2005, enter your unpublished essays of 8,000 words or less in the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction. Sounds like a great place to enter those golden NaNoWriMo segments.

Oort Cloud Oddities: Napoleon by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed

Europe's tiniest dictator has gone from the amazing feat of using the French army to thrash almost the entire world to appearing on the cans of baby corn. Ponderous, baby.

Drowning by Carol Ritz — Op_ed childhood memoir essay

Cover story.

Temple Song by Lydia Manx — Poem

Poem

Anachronocity v8p8 by Josh Brown — Serial

Vol. 8 - Truth and the Goddess Arl - Part 8 <br> The ship is locked down, the locals are in chaos mode as their temple burns to the ground, and death lingers on the horizon. With the rescue mission in full bloom, Katlyn has her hands full trying to do everything while Horus plays rough with the locals.

The Rubiyaat of Ozzie 30 by Alexandra Queen — Serial fantasy humor

His name is Ahman Abd'Zhejaran Najir, and he's everything a person of mixed heritage could hope for. A prosperous, educated, worldly, well-groomed, well-spoken self-made man, with a thriving business and a beautiful human wife. Osgun is thrilled at the chance to speak with him and mortified by his own lack of accomplishment.

Drip, Drip, Drip by Tedi Trindle — Short

Rosalyn suffers from bad dreams. "Night terrors" is the clinic term. But that's okay; Spike, her new puppy, will protect her from the ghosts that torment her every night as she tries to sleep.

Seduction 02 by Wendy Robards — Short

What was supposed to be a simple discussion about her performance in class has become an issue of far less ethical "performances" of another kind entirely. But this isn't a case of trying to earn an easy A; there's something almost supernatural about the way Naomi can't resist her professor's advances... Part 2 of 2.

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