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Summary: Lenox Avenue, 2005
Lenox Avenue was a fairly impressive bimonthly online 'zine, that began in 2004. In 2005 they published 5 issues, but they have now ceased operations. This is unfortunate, though only too understandable. They were doing some fine work, however.
The 2005 issues included 1 novelette, and 28 short stories, 13 of them short-shorts (there was a special flash fiction issue), for a total of over 75,000 words of fiction, over 60,000 words of new fiction. The two reprints (one of them the only novelette) were by Paul G. Tremblay, part of his City Pier series. These stories were published in Tremblay's 2004 collection, Compositions for the Young and Old. (They may have been revised for this reprinting.)
Of the short stories I particularly liked a very short, very biting, story by M. Lynx Qualey, "Disposable Children" (March/April), which is described perfectly by its title. From the same issue, Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt's "Blind Date", yet another "Adam and Eve" story (sort of!) but a savagely different one, is also nice work. Other good work came from Daliso Chaponda ("Rare Bird", July/August), Jay Lake and Jenn Reese ("Dutch Boy Roller Coaster Blue 14-F5", September/October), Paul E. Martens ("Connie, Maybe", January/February), and Elizabeth Bear ("One Eyed Jack and the Suicide King", March/April). And Tremblay's series of City Pier stories, reprints and otherwise, are worth reading as well.
