Crossings — Megan Powell

Crossings features twelve stories at the intersection of genres, set in worlds disturbingly familiar and far distant. Science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and romance elements converge to produce a whole greater--and stranger--than the sum of its parts. The contributors' pedigrees include various honors: a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs literary funding, Best of the Web award, Sime~Gen's Reviewer's Choice Award, Best of Soft SF, Subway Starving Artists Contest, Weird Tales/Flesh and Blood/WHC short story contest, Kimota's Best Story Award, storySouth Notable Online Short Story, Anthony (finalist), Darrell (finalist), Derringer (finalist), Mind's Ear 2000 script competition (second place), Shred of Evidence Readers' Choice Award (second place), World Horror Convention contest (fourth place), and the Isaac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (Honorable Mention). Table of Contents Bottles by James S. Dorr Good-Bye, Lorelei ... Hello, Snow by Holly Wade Matter The Long Arm of Crime by Kevin James Miller Fingernails by Megan Powell True Believers by Jeffrey Turner Vapors in Time by Stephen D. Rogers Morphean Affairs by Maurice G. Broaddus Visions in Midnight Blue by Barbara Davies Draw by James Viscosi Remember Me, Dead! by Laird Long Simon Says by Debra Purdy Kong The Storm by Sharon Hartley.