The Back Room, Corrigenda, Descartes, In the Pink, Librarians, Mnemonic, Rain

Issue 45

Contents of Issue 45 (September 2004)
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Taking Refuge — Tony Rogers
Unplanned, but what the heck?

Corrigenda — Tony Rogers
Read all about it! Error-prone Editor Accepts Another Helping of Humble Pie!

The Back Room — Bet Briggs
Truant dreams and anonymity.

A Word in Your Pink Shell-like — Harlish Goop

"I've scoured the Internet and all my reference books, but so far I've been unable to find anything vaguely resembling a linguistic discussion of the phenomenon. It doesn't take much, however, to understand how might this have come about."

Lungs and memory.

Rain — Lavinia Godfrey
"Each drop a passing thing."

In the Pink — Diane Dees

"He was at the quarry, gathering his tools and his personal belongings and leaving for the day. He had stayed late in order to clean and polish his picks and shovels, and as he walked toward his truck, he tripped over a pick half-buried in the ground."

A short story about an ankle injury and its after-effects.

Mary Bennet — Jennifer Paynter
Part 17 of our serialised novella.

Web Line — Tony Rogers

Have a guess how much coverage the Internet has of librarians in literature, movies and song.

Quintessential Quirky Quotes
Comic and Classic, from Everywhere and Everywhen.

From the Back Verandah — Fizzgig
You are what you think.