Gerald Cannon

He sat at the table holding the baby. She seemed only slightly younger than the black girl that flashed into his meager consciousness with each blink. Black, all bright teeth and big eyes looking up at them in confusion. He could still see the bows in three pigtails. The left one red, the middle one blue, the right one green. He couldn’t imagine how colors could be so bright.

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Tom Long

My knowledge of Nottingham, UK, extends to the Robin Hood movies I grew up watching as a kid courtesy of WGN Family Classics (featuring Douglas Fairbanks) and Disney (with a cartoon fox). I don’t know much of its music scene, yet I’ve been obsessing lately over instrumental recordings from a pair of bands that hail from there — Kogumaza and Souvaris.

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Grant Bailie

Another mad inventor. Wild hair, thick glasses, a lab-coat with strange items poking and bulging from every pocket. His latest invention—the micro-text suit. See it hanging in its vacuum-sealed display case. He will move it carefully into a garment bag and bring it to the offices of the Board of Directors. They will finally see the fruits of their investment—of so many years and so much money. He will explain to them his brilliant concept and execution, how he has managed—through patented techniques—to molecularly print the text of any desired passage onto the fibers of this comfortable and stylish material.

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