•   CONTENTS                                                           Before Paphos
                          Sleeping with
           Art Gallery                                                 by Loretta Casteen
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                          Bears
           Articles                                                    8 January 2007
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                          By Theodora Goss
           Columns                                                     It starts again. The baby
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                                                                       begins to cough and choke.
                          17 November 2003
           Fiction
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                                                                       Locked Doors
                          I. The Invitation
           Poetry
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                                                                       by Stephanie Burgis
                                 Dr. and Mrs. Elwood Barlow
           Reviews
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                              request the honor of your presence       1 January 2007
                           at the marriage of their daughter Rosalie
           Archives
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                                       to Mr. T. C. Ursus              You can never let anyone
•   ABOUT US               on Saturday the thirteenth of June at one   suspect, his mother told him.
                                              o'clock                  That was the first rule she
           Staff
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                                 at the First Methodist Church         taught him, and the last, before
                                                                       she left him here alone with It.
           Guidelines
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                            Reception to follow in the Church Hall
                                                                       Heroic Measures
           Contact
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                          II. The Bride
                                                                       by Matthew Johnson
           Awards
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                          They are wealthy, these bears. Their
                          friends come to the wedding in fur coats. 18 December 2006
           Banners
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                    Rosie is wearing Mom's dress, let out at Pale as he was, it was hard to
•   SUPPORT US
                    the waist. When Mom married, she was believe he would never rise
      o Donate      Miss Buckingham County. She shows us from this bed. Even in the
                                                                 darkest times, she had never
                    the tape measure. "That's what I was,
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                    twenty-two inches around the waist: can really feared for him; he had
                                                                 always been strong, so strong.
      o Merchandise you imagine?" My sister, after years of
                    Jazzercize and Jane Fonda, is considerably
                    thicker. When, I wonder, were women's Love Among the Talus
•   COMMUNITY
                    waists replaced by abdominals? When          by Elizabeth Bear
      o Forum       cheerleaders started competing for state
                    championships, I guess. Rosie was a          11 December 2006
      o Readers'
                    cheerleader. Her senior year, our squad
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                    was fourth in state. That year she wore the Nilufer raised her eyes to his.
                    class ring of the student council president, It was not what women did to
                    who was also the captain of the football men, but she was a princess,
                    team. She was in the homecoming court. and he was only a bandit. "I
                    She was furious when Lisa Callahan was want to be a Witch," she said.
                                                                 "A Witch and not a Queen. I
                    elected queen.
                                                                 wish to be not loved, but wise.
                    After she graduated from Sweet Briar and Tell your bandit lord, if he can
                    began working as a legal secretary, she give me that, I might accept his
                    met a lawyer who was making sixty            gift."
                    thousand a year. They started talking
                    about having children, buying a Mercedes. Archived Fiction Dating back
                                                                 to 9/1/00
                    So I don't understand why she decided to
                    marry a bear.

                          III. The Groom

                          Of course he comes from old money.