• CONTENTS Before Paphos Magic Makeup Art Gallery by Loretta Casteen o By Ray Vukcevich Articles 8 January 2007 o 12 April 2004 Columns It starts again. The baby o begins to cough and choke. Linda said, let's go as each other, and I Fiction o said, how the heck do you expect us to pull Locked Doors Poetry o that off? by Stephanie Burgis Reviews o "Makeup," she said. "Magic makeup. Look 1 January 2007 here." Archives o She handed me a card with a small white You can never let anyone • ABOUT US bottle shrink-sealed onto it in clear plastic. suspect, his mother told him. That was the first rule she The illustration on the card was a Staff o bone-white skeletal face, obviously a guy in taught him, and the last, makeup, with raccoon eyes and blackened before she left him here alone Guidelines o nose and missing teeth. The words on the with It. Contact o card were in French. I do not speak Heroic Measures French. I recognized the words "visage" Awards o and "corpse." by Matthew Johnson Banners o And then a bunch of stuff I was sure I could18 December 2006 not pronounce. • SUPPORT US Pale as he was, it was hard to "Oh, go ahead and pronounce," Linda said. believe he would never rise o Donate from this bed. Even in the She was not yet laughing at me, but I could Bookstore o darkest times, she had never see she was preparing herself for some really feared for him; he had o Merchandise deeply satisfying chuckling. always been strong, so strong. • COMMUNITY Hey, I could be a good sport. I said, "'Maquillage liquide.' Maybe liquid Love Among the Talus Forum o mask?" by Elizabeth Bear Readers' o Choice "You crack me up," she said. 11 December 2006 "And 'pour le visage et pour le corps.' That Nilufer raised her eyes to his. must mean for the face and for the dead It was not what women did to body. So, after the crime you can either men, but she was a princess, disguise yourself or the victim. Your and he was only a bandit. "I choice." want to be a Witch," she said. I turned the card over. On the back were "A Witch and not a Queen. I instructions in both French and English, but wish to be not loved, but wise. Tell your bandit lord, if the English made no sense. he can give me that, I might I read, "Hi ya, Mikey!" which was odd accept his gift." since my name is Mike. "When you're dead, when you're dead, no one wants to Archived Fiction Dating back to 9/1/00 look at your head." She laughed -- a little nervously, I thought. "Just body," she said, "not dead body."