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Jack's House
Art Gallery by Loretta Casteen
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By Jay Lake
Articles 8 January 2007
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23 December 2002
Columns It starts again. The baby begins
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to cough and choke.
This was Joshua's favorite time of year.
Fiction
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The sun fell blinding white on the Locked Doors
Poetry
o snowfields, and the dancing breeze
by Stephanie Burgis
swept ice crystals down from
Reviews
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ultramontane glaciers. Little orange
1 January 2007
butterflies rose like fire-lit clouds from
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the dark forest verges to spread across You can never let anyone
• ABOUT US the snow, each a spark of eye-bright suspect, his mother told him.
warmth against the cold that always That was the first rule she taught
Staff
o surrounded Jack's House. him, and the last, before she left
him here alone with It.
Guidelines
o The young Rat had window duty that
day, eighth gable attic, staring through theHeroic Measures
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rippled, bubble-filled glass across the
snow to the northwest. He stood watch, by Matthew Johnson
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lest the Master finally return, or Dogs
attack. Fear was a function of proximity 18 December 2006
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-- Cats often climbed the stairs to
Pale as he was, it was hard to
• SUPPORT US slaughter Rats in the carpeted halls;
believe he would never rise from
patrolling Dogs caught only those
o Donate this bed. Even in the darkest
occasional, unwary fools who wandered
times, she had never really