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Summary: Lenox Avenue, 2004
Yet another online 'zine! This 'zine, at lenoxavemag.com, has Adrienne Allmann and M. Thomas as Managing Editors. It has appeared bimonthly since the middle of 2004 -- three issues in 2004 (and one already posted in 2005). In addition to fiction, Lenox Avenue features some poetry and some artwork.
The 2004 issues included 12 short stories, 3 of them short-shorts, and a novel excerpt, for a total of over 32,000 words. I thought the stories a pretty decent set. Very much in the slipstream mode that is so common in the field's smaller 'zines these days. Stories I particularly liked included Nick Mamatas's "Skatouioannis", about the son of Greek immigrants dealing with a shit monster from the old country; Tim Pratt's "Life in Stone", a slightly different treatment of the old trope about a wizard hiding his life or soul so that he cannot be killed; and Paul G. Tremblay's "The Strange Case of Nicholas Thomas: An Excerpt from A History of the Longesian Library", set in Tremblay's recurring location (a city on piers in a sea), about a man trying to solve the mystery of the balloons that appear every 19 years.
