Issue 55: July 2010

Welcome to the Edge of Propinquity. Issue 55 is now published. The heat of summer brings out the knife edge in all of us and family is at the heart of everything. This month we have a missing person, a person found, a person rediscovered, the discovery of family and the rediscovery of what family can mean.

Four Visitors – Trinity, Part One – by Rick Silva
It’s Senior Prom night at Danforth High. Tina Cronin and Nick Lorem are looking forward to a fun-filled evening of dancing and socializing. Instead they are in for an eerie encounter on a deserted stretch of road and the beginning of a night that the town of Danforth will never forget.

Solstice – Summer, Part Four – by Ivan Ewert
Michael Monroe – aka Mars, God of War – has stripped his mortal life of all that once gave it meaning. Now he searches out an old familiar face, one lost in the weeds to recent memory, but whose lackadaisical attitude may and must prove his simplest way forward.

Mnemosyne – Reach Out and Touch Someone – by Nick Bergeron
At last our Hero comes to it – my motivation for being here, my reason for existence. Tired of drifting like a leaf in a wind greater than he understands, he decides to fight back, the sweet boy. Despite my best past efforts, his first step in fighting is with someone else. Silly, silly, and wrong. His next step though, that’s perfect. His next step is me, and I’ll show him how wrong he is.

Sparrow Hill Road – Do You Want to Dance – by Seanan McGuire
For Rose Marshall, prom nights are holy nights, and observing them takes precedence over everything…even her own existence. Back in Buckley Township and confronted by strangers who could be either friend or foe, will she make it to the night’s last dance?

Guest Author – Skullduggery at the Junction by Jason S. Ridler
What do you do when you come to test the truth behind the Legend and find that there is more to the legend than first thought? Paul is about to do just that. He enters into a battle with The Strangler to discover there is more to his foe than just fighting.

Have you ever looked over the edge and seen something looking back at you?