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		<title>Review #28:  Stem, Stone, and Bone by Deb Taber</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: http://www.inkfuscate.com/
Published by: Fantasy Magazine, August 2nd, 2010
Photo by Jurvetson Creative Commons
The Story: 
Jacinta has spent her days working in the cocoa groves of Venezuela since she was a child, collecting the beetles that hatch from the trees and slicing off their legs and proboscises with a little knife attached to her thumb. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #25: Perhaps this is Kushi’s Story by Swapna Kishore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author website: http://swapnawrites.com/
Published by: Fantasy Magazine, July 26th, 2010
Photo by Rosa y Dani Creative Commons
The Story:
Twin sisters, the eldest destined to marry the Headman&#8217;s son and lead their tribe and the younger resentful of that fact, listen to a story as told by their wise, old Tribemother. In the story, Kushi, a young healer apprentice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer&#8217;s Life: How to Explain a Fictional Technology or Superpower</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=567</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So speaking of world building, Basic Instructions has this tidbit of advice about how to explain a fictional technology or superpower.
There&#8217;s definitely a balance to it: too little and you&#8217;ll leave your readers confused or distracted from the story. Too much, and they&#8217;ll be digging through a tech manual for plot and characters. Though I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #16: Saving the Gleeful Horse by K.J. Bishop</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=398</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by: Fantasy Magazine, March 22, 2010
Photo by Peasap Creative Commons
The Story:
Molimus, a great giant so broad it takes four men&#8217;s shirts stitched together to clothe him, lives under a bridge collecting flotsam for trade. From his vantage, he witnesses the assassinations of marvelous, colorful animals, beaten to death by the sticks and swords of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #15: The Kiss by Lauren LeBano</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=382</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by: Strange Horizons, March 15, 2010
Photo by Suzie T Creative Commons
The Story: Annie has a goblin for a friend &#8212; a short and well dressed fellow with yellow, hungry eyes. He leaves her gifts of golden trinkets, but when Annie’s mother learns about this green-skinned friend, she begs Annie to tell him to leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #14: Bearing Fruit by Nikki Alfar</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=349</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by: Fantasy Magazine, March 1, 2010
The Story:
In Bearing Fruit, a sixteen-year-old girl bathing in a river near her home finds herself smitten with a mango bobbing in the current. By the time it&#8217;s had its way with her, the poor girl finds herself suddenly with child. Of course no one believes her story, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #10: Stranger by Patricia Russo</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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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
The Story:
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>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=131</link>
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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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