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		<title>Review #29: Aphrodisia by Lavie Tidhar</title>
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Published by: Strange Horizons, August 2010
Photo by Christine Zenino Creative Commons
The Story:
A hub junkie, a hafmek, and a tentacled worm walk into a bar&#8230;
Three nest-brothers from Mars are running away from their pasts, and end up on the gritty, non-protocol streets of Earth. Here, the temperatures aren&#8217;t regulated, and neither are the people. [...]]]></description>
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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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Published by: Fantasy Magazine, August 2nd, 2010
Photo by Jurvetson Creative Commons
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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 #21: A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Website: tobiasbuckell.com
Published by: Clarkesworld Magazine
Photo by MGShelton Creative Commons
The Story:
Stuck in perpetual air-debt on a space orbital, professional Friend Alex Mosette is out of options. Well, not completely out of options. There&#8217;s always the old fallback of going into hibernation in between jobs to minimize air consumption, but there&#8217;s also a new opportunity on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review #14: Bearing Fruit by Nikki Alfar</title>
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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 #13: Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin</title>
		<link>http://www.nickydrayden.com/blog/?p=254</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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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 #1: A Rose is Rose by Georgina Bruce</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky Drayden</dc:creator>
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Published by: Strange Horizons, December 21st, 2009
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A Rose is Rose is a colorful, sensual tale that intertwines the stories of a body paint artist named Sashi and storybook illustrator named Sarah. Both artists struggle with their needs to express their creativity as well as their sexuality in what creates an interesting pair [...]]]></description>
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