This issue is built around the theme of horror.
Contents indexed selectively.
Doctor Who fan fiction.
Ace, former companion to the Seventh Doctor but currently a mercenary for hire, finds herself trapped on a squalid colony planet, waiting four days for her ship to depart. Bored, she heads out into the streets to incite a mugging, hoping for a brief adrenalin rush. When she accidentally cripples her attacker, she steals his ID card. Out of curiosity, she visits his family, posing as a hiker. During the one night she spends with them, she confronts them with some unpleasant truths about their family life, but doesn't reveal that the son of whom they are so proud is a homeless drug addict and not, as they believe, a successful naval recruit. Then she returns to her period of waiting, but this time with only two days before the ship's departure.
Doctor Who fan fiction.
A companion piece to Orman's earlier story 'Glasshouse', this one traces the imprisonment of the Doctor's companion Mel, who, following the Doctor (either the Sixth or the Seventh Doctor) into another cybernetic prison, finds herself trapped as she forgets who she is and what her purpose was. As Mel ages in the service of an unnamed woman, the Doctor himself is trapped against a wall in the garden, imprisoned by thorny rosebushes. Only when Mel is an old woman does she remember her relationship with the Doctor and her reasons for entering the prison in the first place.
Doctor Who fan fiction.
A short piece imagining an encounter between the Doctor (an unspecified regeneration), Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas in Paris in 1938. The story's prose style mimics that of Stein.
