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Summary: Fortean Bureau, 2005
Fortean Bureau is an e-zine available at www.forteanbureau.com. This year they switched to quarterly publication. For 2006 they are looking at new revenue streams, including advertising -- which certainly doesn't bother me. The four issues of 2005 featured 13 stories, one a novelette, two short-shorts, that totalled about 43,000 words of fiction. (One issue was mostly devoted to poetry, I should add.)
My favorites were Samantha Henderson's "Five Ways Jane Austen Never Died", a very smart look at five alternate histories of Jane Austen's life -- or rather, her death; Stephanie Burgis's "Stitching Time", a stark look at women who go to Northern Michigan to be married and then go mad, and how they are mistreated by a strange psychiatrist; and Heather Shaw's "Sick Days", a disquieting story of a plague told via office emails. There was also good work by Bill Kte'pi, Clinton Lawrence, and James Allison.
This has been one of my favorite e-zines over the past few years. Here's hoping it survives, indeed thrives.
