Aeon Fourteen
Page 9
I have a math test today. I need to turn in my history paper. Seven pages, for heaven's sake!
Julia picked up her fork, cut a pencil-thin line off the edge of her pancakes, ate.
“Mom. Dad. Thanks for this great breakfast. No, really! I love you both, lots!”
They turned their heads, smiled, nodded. Mother shuffled back, her dress slipping down her shoulders, to collect Julia's plate.
Julia grabbed her backpack and sprinted for the door. With a little luck, she'd get to the bus before she had to walk the ten blocks to school.
Maybe they'll buy me a car for my birthday. So long, school bus!
And as she ran, ran, ran for the ride, another thought cropped up. An irritation, an annoying buzz in her ears, a troubling churning in her stomach.
They almost had me believing. They almost made me believe again.
She made it to the bus stop with minutes to spare.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
Our Authors
* * * *
* * * *
Although Sarah L. Edwards ("Wild Among Hares") graduated with a degree in mathematics, she likes to point out that she began college as an English major. She writes science fiction, fantasy, and an occasional unidentifiable piece, and has had work published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Hub. She was also a finalist for the Writers of the Future contest. She is presently studying graduate mathematics, learning new recipes, and ignoring a half-knitted sock.
Sarah's novelette “The Butterfly Man” appeared in Æon Twelve.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Dr. Rob Furey ("Parallax") worked on his PhD in Gabon, West Africa, on social spiders. He has returned to his study site several times for his own research, with students and once as a forest guide for a natural history film crew from the UK. He has faced down cobras, retreated from army ants, and slept on open wooden platforms in African swamps. Later he went to French Amazonia to work on another social spider species. Not only did he spend time with the spiders, but he watched a gunfight between gold prospectors and French army troops while he ate a meal of roasted tapir. Since then Rob has returned to the tropics several times, usually with students. He spent time as a student himself attending Clarion West. He has published a couple of stories in anthologies since then in addition to articles for dusty tomes on arcane spider behavior. He is currently part of the charter faculty at Harrisburg University, the first new private university in Pennsylvania in over 100 years.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
photo by Jessica Van Neerijnen
Davin Ireland ("The March Wind") was born and raised in the south of England, but currently resides in the Netherlands. His fiction credits include stories published in a wide range of print magazines and anthologies, including Underworlds, Zahir, The Horror Express, Fusing Horizons, Rogue Worlds, Storyteller Magazine and Albedo One. His work has received Honorable Mentions in the last three editions of The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.
Visit Davin on the Web at home.wanadoo.nl/d.ireland/index.html.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Jay Lake ("Sweet Rocket") lives in Portland, Oregon with his books and two inept cats, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His recent novels include Trial of Flowers from Night Shade Books and Mainspring from Tor Books, with sequels to both books in 2008. Jay is the winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Jay can be reached through his blog at jaylake.livejournal.com.
Jay's work has appeared in six previous issues of Æon.
Find him on the Web at jlake.com/
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Ryan Neal Myers ("The Diesel Mnemonic") lives with his wife in a small town in Northern Idaho—a magical place where gray-haired hippies shake hands with well-educated farmers. Ryan is neither. He graduated from Clarion in 2001, has a degree in creative writing, makes short films in his living room, and writes everything from cyberpunk to children's fantasy. He almost sold a big-budget screenplay to Hollywood, almost lived in Australia, almost flew a UH-60 Blackhawk, and almost looks cool in his leather jacket. His sunglasses are clip-ons.
Ryan's story “The Underthing” appeared in Æon Eleven.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Kristine Kathryn Rusch ("Signals")'s novels (science fiction, fantasy, mystery/crime, and romance) have been published in 14 countries in 14 different languages. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won Hugo awards for both editing and fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in six Year's Best collections. She has also been the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award, the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel, the Ellery Queen Reader's Choice Award, the Science Fiction Age Reader's Choice Award, and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award, and been nominated for the Locus, Nebula, and Sturgeon awards, and the Asimov's Reader's Choice Award.
From 1991-1996 Kris was the editor of the prestigious Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene, Oregon. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.
Visit Kris's website at www.kristinekathrynrusch.com/.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff ("Your Fairy Goth Mother") is an Aurora Award winning poet/author who lives with her family and other odd creatures in a small town on Canada's west coast. Her stories and poetry have appeared in On Spec, Weird Tales, Aoife's Kiss, Dreams and Nightmares, and Talebones, as well as in various anthologies and online publications.
Marcie's work has appeared in four previous issue of Æon, and more are scheduled for future issues.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Lavie Tidhar ("Hard Rain at the Fortean Café") writes weird fiction. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and can say “the dictatorship of the proletariat” without blinking. He has also lived in South Africa, the UK, the remote Banks islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, and most recently Laos. His short stories have appeared in Sci Fiction, Salon Fantastique, The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Best New Fantasy 2, Horror: The Best of the Year 2007, and many others. He can speak fluent Bislama, a South Pacific pidgin English, cook crème brulee, and grow his own tomatoes.
Lavie's story “Midnight Folk” appeared in Æon Six, and “Angels Over Israel” in Æon Ten.
His web site is www.lavietidhar.co.uk.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
* * * *
* * * *
Mikal Trimm's ("The Diadem") short stories and poems have appeared in numerous venues over the last few years. Recent or forthcoming works may be found in Helix, Postscripts, Weird Tales, Black Gate, and Interfictions, among others.
His novel, The Greatest Freaking Book Anyone Has Written EVER! is not forthcoming from any publisher at any time in the future.
Visit his blog at mtrimm1.livejournal.com/.
[Back to Table of Contents]
* * *
Our Advertisers
The Blood of Father Time, by Alan M. Clark, Stephen C. Merritt, and Lorelei Shannon
Electric Story
Escapement and Mainspring, by Jay Lake
Fairwood Press
Hebrew Punk, by Lavie Tidhar
Recovery Man, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Talebones Magazine
Thriller Doctor
Wheatland Press/Polyphony
* * *
Visit www.aeonmagazine.com for information on additional titles by this and other authors.