Issue of June 6, 2011

Secret Daughter: Book Review by Wendy Robards — Book review "Secret Daughter"

Wendy Robards reviews the novel "Secret Daughter," by Shilpi Somaya Gowda.

Bug To Death by Jeffrey Carl Jefferis — Cover story short fiction

If only the Powers That Be, who endow blessings and curses alike, would descend from their Jovian heights to give a guy a heads-up now and then ...

Kung Fu Panda 2: Martial ART by Bernie and Sand Pilarski — Movie review "Kung Fu Panda 2"

Bernie drags Sand off to see a movie that really impressed him the day before: Kung Fu Panda 2.

X-Men: First Class ... All the Way! by Bernie and Sand Pilarski — Movie review "X-Men: First Class"

Bernie and Sand zoom to the very first showing of X-Men: First Class.

Peek of the Week 300 by Lydia Manx — Photo art

A banyan tree stretches its trunk-like branches.

Victims of Ourselves by Dan Mulhollen — Poem unrhymed

... we pretend our clothes are not threadbare, and covered in graveyard mud...

Dinner With Henry 43: The Great Escape? by Bruce Memblatt — Serial fiction fantasy humor

The Mayor has been shot at, and Andre is sort of complicit in the crime ...

The Building 18 by Lydia Manx — Serial fiction horror vampires mature content

He had nearly escaped that accursed coffin once, but something unexpected had happened ...