"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world." ―Terry Pratchett,
A Hat Full of Sky
With the publication of #145,
Space and Time
magazine closes our 57th year with some of our best stories, poetry and art yet. It's not easy to balance elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy, but in the pages of this issue you can find it done exceptionally well. Here are stories we hope can change the world. With fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art from Peter J Carter, Sonny Zae, Laura Kester Duerrwaechter, Alicia Hilton, Maxwell I. Gold, Darren Lipman, Christine H. Chen, Maria Heloisa Silva, Guilherme Ademir Marian, Madeline Clark, Hillary Dodge, Timothy P. Flynn, Brian Hugenbruch, Akis Linardos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Fiona Perry, Jonathan Pessant, Kathryn Ptacek, John Reinhart, Greg Schwartz, Ingrid L. Taylor, Michael H. Payne, Pixie Bruner, Amy Drees, Linda D. Addison, Rami Ungar, R. Leigh Hennig, Briant Laslo, Daniel M. Kimmel, Michael Wyatt, Anthony R. Rhodes, Alan F. Beck, Arthur Haywood, Tom Nackid, Alfred Klosterman, Doug Draper, Brad W. Foster. Special thanks to our editors Gerard Houarner, Linda D. Addison and Ken Hueler. Cover art by Karl Kofoed. Interior Layout by Anthony R. Rhodes. Proofread and copyedits by Nikki DeKeuster.