Issue of August 10, 2009

And Then There Were Zombies -- Go Get 'Em, Jane by Lydia Manx — Book review "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

Even though the Piker Press Staff didn't tackle Zombies this August, Lydia Manx finds herself drawn to a book about them ... Jane Austen and Zombies?

The House on Fortune Street: Book Review by Wendy Robards — Book review "The House on Fortune Street"

Wendy Robards reviews the book, "The House on Fortune Street," by Margot Livesey.

In Defense of Gay Marriage by Richard Voza — Essay

Richard Voza tackles a controversial subject -- laws about homosexual marriage.

Peek of the Week 207 by Chas Wallace — Photo art

Trail along the Ramapo River in South Mountain Reservation in New Jersey, USA.

Libra by Mel Trent — Poem unrhymed

When the scales are set on the table, how much weight does pain carry?

Transitions 25 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction family relationships

The eavesdropping has been moderately successful ... but there's a cop in the house and the Five could be busted for their crime ...

Strange Bedfellows 21 by Lydia Manx — Serial fiction horror vampires

Stuck in a tiger trap, the team of vampires and werewolf are beginning to see the pieces of an unpleasant plan ...

A Trip Into the Mind's Attic by Dan Mulhollen — Short fiction

Was it memory? An overheard story? Or echoes of something that once might have been?