Publisher: Lida E. Quillen
Co-Publisher: Ardy M. Scott
Founder & Executive Editor: Babs Lakey
Art Director: Gin E.L. Fenton (GinElf)
Managing Editor: Barry Ergang
Editorial Staff: Virginia Lo Monaco, Marlene Satter, Chick Lang, Mary Schenten, Alfie
Editorial Consultant: Earl Staggs
Artists:Gin E.L. Fenton, Teresa Tunaley, Kevin Duncan, Gavin O’Keefe, Laura Givens, Teri Santitoro, Vivian Prince, Paul Campbell, Stephanie Rodriguez
Cartoonists: Kevin Duncan, Georiann Baldino
Spot Illustrations: Teresa Tunaley

Cover Artist for this issue
Gin E.L. Fenton (GinELF)

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Webmaster: Catherine Chant
FAME production manager: Ardy Scott
FMAM List Manager: Kimberly Brown
FMAM Masthead Layout & Design: Gin E.L. Fenton (GinElf)

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copyright © 2006
Lida E. Quillen and
Futures MYSTERY Anthology Magazine
stories and artwork © authors and artists

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Featured Authors...

Teaser: “LAW AND DAUGHTER” - Civic Duties John M. Floyd
Teaser: Good With Directions Edmund R. Schubert
Teaser: The Never-Used Prom Dress Earl Staggs

LITERARY, POETRY, MAINSTREAM...
Teaser: Simplify, Unite, Delight Kristin R. Masterton

MYSTERY FICTION

By The Numbers Max Archer
One Dead Duck - A Johnny Style Story Patrick K. Jassoy
The Story Of A Lifetime Pam Skochinski
Play Money J. Alan Brown
Burnt Sugar Cake Edward Musto
The Civilian Marlys Pearson
Death of a Dog Edward McDermott
The Last Known Movements of Jimmy Dench Shaun Jeffrey
A Sharp White Light John Rector
Small Fry T.M. Cannady
The Wrong Headline B. J. Bourg
Pick Michael Bracken
Roadhouse Grace Q.H. Barefoot
Dirty Dishes Lox Crabtree
Under Water Chick Lang

FMAM FLASH FICTION Contest WINNERS
First Place...Change of Heart Peggy Ehrhart
Second Place...Just a Little Game of Cards Vera Svetozarev

COLUMNS - INTERVIEWS - REVIEWS
A Dream of Drowned Hollow by Lee Barwood - review
- Stephanie Arwen Beck
Memory of a Murder by Earl Staggs - review - Babs Lakey
The Informant Bret Wright
Witness to Myself by Seymour Shubin - review - G. Miki Hayden
The Crime Lab Guy John L. French
Meet the Staff - Editor Chick Lang
Mr. Monk Goes To The Firehouse by Lee Goldberg - review
- Barry Ergang
Murder-Go-Round Harriet Klausner
Starfire Mary O’Gara
Moral Judgments G. Miki Hayden
Spotlight on...John Floyd Bret Wright
Illuminated Manuscripts - an Anthology - review
- Christine Speakman

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