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AIDSAcquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a recently recognized diseaseentity. It is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),which attacks selected cells in the immune system (see…

They went in with a No-Knock arrest warrant and Kevlar vests because from what Betty Young had told them, the dude in here was no cookie-cutter.The trouble with most tenement…

To think of something romantically is to think of it naively, in a positivelight, away from the view of the majority. Percy Bysshe Shelley has manyromantic themes in his plays….

He had drank too much, and had argued with his uncle Dominick too loudly about whichever war was current wherever in the world. His uncle’s attitude was always and ever…

The decision to imprison Japanese Americans was a popular one in 1942. It was supported not only by the government, but it was also called for by the press and…

There were three airports servicing the metropolitan area. The largest of them, out on Sands Spit, flew three direct flights and six connecting flights to Houston on most weekdays. The…

Since there were two homicides on the table this Tuesday morning – an unusual circumstance, even for the Eight-Seven – Lieutenant Byrnes told the detectives assembled in his office that…

It was raining relentlessly on the morning of October thirtieth, a Saturday, the day after the body of Andrew Henry Hale was found dead in his bed in an apartment…

It is Palmer who makes the first contact, toward the end of September.He tells Cynthia on the telephone that he’s had a transatlantic call from Norman Zimmer, who’s producing a…

I open my eyes. I am lying on my back, arms folded behind my head, looking up at a flawless summer sky. ‘Yes?’Julie stirs on the red blanket, scooting a…

Regal complacency must yield to political expediency and the deposition of the king will reverberate though the ages. Susan L. PowellThe parallel and inextricable link between the fall of King…

Nora Greene is in the square by the Stadium’s main gate, standing with General Rosso in front of a huge crowd. She is a little nervous. She wishes she had…

In a society generally shaped by its commercialism, many people will fall into the unfortunate trap of trying to exceed someone elses standards. The catalyst for this maddening condition exists…

He cocks the gun and presses it against my forehead, directly onto Julie’s Band-Aid. Here it comes. Here is M’s ever-present irony. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years…

Introduction The requirement for a Serious Case Review (SCR) in the event of a child fatality was by and large a product of a recent policy development by the state…

‘Julie,’ I say, bracing to confess my final sin. ‘I need . . . to tell you . . .’BANG. The Stadium’s field halogens flare like suns and midnight becomes…

Kate Chopin was an American author wholived during the nineteenth century, but because of TheAwakening, a novel which was considered scandalous atthe time, she has just recently been “accepted into…

The Orchard, as it turns out, is not part of the Stadium’s farming system. It’s their one and only pub, or at least the closest thing they have to a…

I am Perry Kelvin, and this is my last day alive.What a strange feeling, waking up to that awareness. All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummelling the…

In my old days of scavenging the city I often gazed up at the Stadium walls and imagined a paradise inside. I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy…