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<p><i>The Bards and Sages Quarterly</i> features original short speculative fiction from both new and established authors. Our writers include first-time authors, Pushcart Prize nominees and Nebula award winners. With each issue, our goal is to bring readers the most inclusive collection of speculative fiction available.</p> <br> <br> <p><b>In this issue:</b></p> <p>A Human Resources manager finds herself in need of divine intervention when forced to deal with a troublesome new employee in <i>The Office Messiah.</i></p> <br> <br> <p>While struggling to cope with his lover's illness, a man forms a strange bond with a mermaid trapped in an aquarium in <i>Last of Her Kind.</i></p> <br> <br> <p>An anxious vampire hunter must confront the evils of his own actions in <i>A Stare From the Darkness.</i></p> <br> <br> <p>If you could relive any 24 hour period of your life, what would it be? A woman answers this question and finds out more that she could have ever imagined in <i>The Spectator.</i></p> <br> <br> <p>In a world where no female children are ever born, a religious rite to preserve humanity tests the bonds of friendship in <i>The Changing Tree.</i></p> <br> <br> <p>These stories and others are found in this special double-issue.</p>