An anniversary...or two.

April, 1994 issue. Features my first professionally-published short story, "Bedtime"...the only story in the issue briefer than Ellison's "Attack at Dawn" (from the Mind Fields project, wherein Ellison wrote stories around Jacek Yerka's paintings, including the one on the cover). My story was added to the last page at the last minute, so I'm the only fiction-writer not mentioned on the cover (the usual cover format slightly altered by the shape of Yerka's painting). The artists and I are the Others. Algis Budrys had bought the story in 1983, but misplaced the manuscript. The dangers of tabletop publishing.

ISFDB index: 

• Editorial (Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, April 1994) • essay by Algis Budrys
• 2 • Affair of Honor • shortstory by Delores Goodrick Beggs
• 9 • Lovebirds • novelette by William Shockley
• 16 • After the Whirlwind • novella by Paula May
• 33 • Slime and Sty • shortstory by John Flynt
• 38 • The Passing of the Beacon Star • shortstory by Chuck Rothman
• 43 • Attack at Dawn • (1994) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• 45 • Bicyclefish Island • novelette by Daniel P. Dern
• 54 • Planned Obsolescence • shortstory by Sten Westgard
• 60 • Dance to the Sun (Part 2 of 4) • serial by William Esrac
• 77 • Writing (Part 8 of 9) • essay by Algis Budrys
• 80 • Bedtime • shortfiction by Todd Mason

Also, this is about the 25th anniversary of my first professional sale of poetry to a magazine, Janet Fox's Scavenger's Newsletter. 

Much later issues of Scav...