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‘The Package’ by Ilan Herman
planetmagazine.wordpress.com - 7/3/2009
‘The Package’ by Ilan Herman
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blueguy Jeff was watching the news in his living room when a knock sounded on his apartment door. He opened the door and smiled at the rotund mailman, who’d been serving the apartments for ten years. “How ya doin’, John?” Holding a mid-sized cardboard box, the mailman smiled through his thick ...

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QuasarDragon — ... : "The Package" by Ilan Herman. "Jeff gasped and took the helmet off. The creature dissolved. Jeff stood trembling. A moment passed and the creature was still gone. Jeff patted the helmet inside and out but found nothing unusual. He gingerly put the helmet back on. The sky-blue life-form reappeared." Online HERE . Audio Fiction ...

Free Fiction and Stuff for 07/04/2009
SF Signal — Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of QuasarDragon] @Planet Magazine: "The Package" by Ilan Herman. Hypersonic Tales has its July issue online with fiction by, Sean Vivier, Ellen Denham, Guy Belleranti, A.K. Sykora, and Robert E. Keller. Drops of Crimson has its YA issue online with fiction by Joanna Gardner, Lilah Wild, Kenneth Mark Hoover, Che Gilson, Dennis R. Upkins, Kristopher Reisz, T.A. Moore, Aleksandra Butowt, Rich Mallery, Michael Merriam, and Julie Klumb. The latest issue of The Edge of ...

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