Monks came for only two things: tribute and war. But I'd never seen so many of them in one place. I wondered who my man would have to go fight now.

Here is a new poem from Robert Frazier, who is to SF poetry what Hugo Gernsback was to Science Fiction.

. . . inspired by music, mostly that of Black Sabbath, Megadeth, and many of the long forgotton metal bands of the '70's and '80's, she also finds inspiration in horror movies (especially post-apocolyptic earth-type movies).

"I'm not sure why I gravitated to short stories more than the longer stuff, other than I'm a closure addict. I like getting to the end of things and calling them done."

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