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		<title>Review #13: Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Author Website: nkjemisin.com
Published by: Clarkesworld Magazine, Sept 2009
The Story:
Every morning, Adele prepares herself for battle. She prays to the gods of her ancestors, bathes in fragrant herbs, then piles on her armor &#8212; trinkets such as the Saint Christopher medal her mother gave her, a hair clasp that doubles as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #12: The Economy of a Vacuum by Sarah Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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Published by: Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 2009
The Story:
Virginia has trained hard to be the moon&#8217;s first long-term resident. She&#8217;s prepared for the vast moments of loneliness punctuated by stardom during her weekly transmissions home to Earth. Not that she&#8217;s ever felt particularly tied to one city over another, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #11: The City of Unrequited Dreams by Claude Lalumière</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Ray Tibbitts
Author Website: http://lostmyths.net/
Published by: Chizine, 2010
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It&#8217;s been four years since anyone&#8217;s heard from Vittorio, when his gift of fine Veneran chocolates shows up for our narrator&#8217;s seventeenth birthday. The box&#8217;s contents are quick to ignite unrealized passions and awaken old memories of a kiss shared between the two before Vittorio and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #10: Stranger by Patricia Russo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Fantasy Magazine, February 1, 2010
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The Blue Heart clan prides itself on its hospitality, offering a complete stranger room in their already cramped underground quarters on the eve of the stinging rains. It&#8217;d be barbaric to leave a man above ground to be burned alive, so there&#8217;s no doubt one of the clan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #9: Cory&#8217;s Father by Francesca Forrest</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=159</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: http://asakiyume.livejournal.com
Published by: Strange Horizons, February 1, 2010
The Story:
Willow&#8217;s Daughter has five children, each with a different father. She&#8217;s found love and lost it several times over, but that&#8217;s not all she&#8217;s lost &#8212; she&#8217;s in exile, trapped here in the world of hours and days while the sounds and sights and smells from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review # 8: After the Dragon by Sarah Monette</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: www.sarahmonette.com
Published by Fantasy Magazine, January 25th, 2010
The Story:
Megan had a run-in with a dragon that left her with one good eye, one good hand, one good breast, and a heart scarred worse than her burnt flesh. She hates life. She hates everybody, including the doctors and nurses helping her to rehabilitate. Her mother&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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