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Margaret Ballif Simon:
(04/01/2010) Marge Ballif Simon lives in Florida and illustrates and writes for genre and mainstream publications such as TOTU, Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Niteblade, The Pedestal Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side". She is the editor of Star*Line, Digest of the SF Poetry Association. In addition to her poetry, she has published two prose collections: Christina's World (Sam's Dot Publications, 2008) and Like Birds in the Rain (Sam's Dot, 2007). She won the Bram Stoker for Best Poetry Collection with Charlie Jacob, Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet Dark Regions Press, 2008. A new collection, Unearthly Delights (self illustrated in color) is forthcoming from Sam's Dot Publications, 2010.
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Poetry
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Another Place   Margaret Ballif Simon #8 46
Escher in Love   Bruce Boston
Margaret Ballif Simon 		#26 62
Sourdough Bread   Margaret Ballif Simon #18 27
Back Cover
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For "Discovering Pluto"   Margaret Ballif Simon #17 Back Cover
For "Pluto Waltzes"   Margaret Ballif Simon #17 Back Cover
  Margaret Ballif Simon #18 Back Cover
Cartoon
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I'll let you have Cleveland   Linda Bosson
Margaret Ballif Simon 		#27 116
Illustration
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For "Mirror Trick"   Margaret Ballif Simon #2 15
For "Free Day"   Margaret Ballif Simon #2 18
For "There Was an Old Lady..."   Margaret Ballif Simon #2 38
For "The Lifter"   Margaret Ballif Simon #3 15
For "Krickett, Anyone?"   Margaret Ballif Simon #3 22
For "Veronica's Find"   Margaret Ballif Simon #3 39
For "Getting Miss Grisley"   Margaret Ballif Simon #3 43
For "A Visit from Limbo"   Margaret Ballif Simon #4 22
For "Heirloom"   Margaret Ballif Simon #4 45
For "Watching"   Margaret Ballif Simon #5 55
For "One of a Kind"   Margaret Ballif Simon #6 51
For "The Saturday Morning Horrors"   Margaret Ballif Simon #7 25
For "Warm Turkey"   Margaret Ballif Simon #7 52
For "SecondHand"   Margaret Ballif Simon #8 49
For "Biodegradable"   Margaret Ballif Simon #8 55
For "The Imperialist's Clothes"   Margaret Ballif Simon #10 37
For "Questing"   Margaret Ballif Simon #10 54
For "Ghost in the Machine"   Margaret Ballif Simon #11 45
For "Thunderstorm"   Margaret Ballif Simon #12 37
For "Helping Hands"   Margaret Ballif Simon #12 47
For "Heaven"   Margaret Ballif Simon #13 27
For "Vacation"   Margaret Ballif Simon #13 55
For "Dog Days"   Margaret Ballif Simon #15 55
For "Faux"   Margaret Ballif Simon #15 58
For "The Small Black Box of Morality"   Margaret Ballif Simon #16 25
For "Old Nick and Rodolpho"   Margaret Ballif Simon #16 29
For "Casting Couch"   Margaret Ballif Simon #16 41
For "The Downsizing"   Margaret Ballif Simon #17 17
For "Unenlightened Flesh"   Margaret Ballif Simon #17 55
For "The Princess and the Supermarket"   Margaret Ballif Simon #17 63
For "Heir of the Wolf"   Margaret Ballif Simon #18 9
For "Le Sang des Fées"   Margaret Ballif Simon #18 23
For "Spider Goes to Market"   Margaret Ballif Simon #18 29
For "Sanitation Sends a Man"   Margaret Ballif Simon #19 33
For "Wild Bunnies"   Margaret Ballif Simon #19 65
For "The Proper Study"   Margaret Ballif Simon #19 73
For "The Story of a Fragment"   Margaret Ballif Simon #19 77
For "Miniatures"   Margaret Ballif Simon #19 79
For "Food for Thought"   Margaret Ballif Simon #20 85
For "Kameradin"   Margaret Ballif Simon #21 11
For "The Wyrm OreBoreUS"   Margaret Ballif Simon #21 17
For "Rules of the Game"   Margaret Ballif Simon #21 37
For "These Guys Really Suck"   Margaret Ballif Simon #21 69
For "Into the Lion's Den"   Margaret Ballif Simon #21 83
For "The Price"   Margaret Ballif Simon #21 103
For "Necrosis"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 9
For "The Glutton: A Goxhat Accounting Chant"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 19
For "Life and a Chance"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 33
For "Life Without Parole"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 47
For "When Jabberwocks Attack"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 51
For "Meeting Death on an Autumn Street"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 64
For "A Boatside Chat"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 67
For "Creatures"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 79
For "Zero Time"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 87
For "The Heron, Zither, and Hanuman"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 101
For "The Heron, Zither, and Hanuman"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 105
For "On the Irritating Tendency of the Tau Cetians to Indulge in Ever More Verbose Titles for Their Cross-Dimensional, Cross-Species Romances, Inevitably Entailing the Listing of at Least a Dozen Characters with Unpronounceable Names (One of Whom Will Invariably be an E-Eridanian Whose Association with the Other Characters is as Improbable as it is Brief), Together with the Major and Minor Genders of Those Characters, Not to Mention the Names and Ages of Any of Their Offspring Still Attached in the Bud, as well as the Birth Planets and Dietary Preferences of the Characters (Particular Attention Being Given to the Bizarrely Gory Eating Habits of the Hyper-Carnivorous E-Eridanian - This being the Primary Reason for Including a Member of Such a Belligerent Species in the First Place), and Often Also Containing Unsavory and Detailed Descriptions of the Numerous Pungent Odors Produced in Moments of Single or Multiplexed Passion"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 113
For "The Devil's Music"   Margaret Ballif Simon #22 115
For "Faux Ever in Love"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 19
For "The Tree on Lethe's Bank"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 33
For "The Invisible Hand Rolls the Dice"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 43
For "2Heads"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 51
For "Mrs. Malley's Home for Recidivists"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 79
For "The Grand Cheat"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 113
For "Footnote to a Holy War"   Margaret Ballif Simon #23 121
For "Big Black Mama and Tentacle Man"   Margaret Ballif Simon #24 17
  Margaret Ballif Simon #24 47
For "On Grandmother's Farm"   Margaret Ballif Simon #24 67
For "Shrimp Kabobs and Screaming Sleep"   Margaret Ballif Simon #24 89
For "The Night and The Day and The Night..."   Margaret Ballif Simon #24 107
For "Seven Names for Tabitha"   Margaret Ballif Simon #24 113
For "The Correct Response"   Margaret Ballif Simon #25 15
For "The Green Glass Paperweight"   Margaret Ballif Simon #25 87
For "Jordan's Place"   Margaret Ballif Simon #25 105
For "Caring for Hoppers"   Margaret Ballif Simon #25 115
For "Mr. Brain and the Voting Booth from Outer Space"   Margaret Ballif Simon #25 123
For "Father Muerte and the Theft"   Margaret Ballif Simon #25 129
For "Boywave"   Margaret Ballif Simon #26 65
For "Luna Beat"   Margaret Ballif Simon #26 79
For "See How She Dances"   Margaret Ballif Simon #26 95
For "Mary Bennet Goes Postal"   Margaret Ballif Simon #26 109
For "Transgenesis Meeses"   Margaret Ballif Simon #26 119
For "The Secret Lives of Puppets"   Margaret Ballif Simon #26 123
For "Beer Can Medus"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 41
For "Mister Eddie"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 73
For "The Dog At The Camp"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 86
For "The Facts of Dr. Van Helsing's Case"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 93
For "The Facts of Dr. Van Helsing's Case"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 97
For "The Tale of Roderick Rabbit"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 114
For "Nosmo Girl"   Margaret Ballif Simon #27 89
For "Escape"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 21
For "The Pinocchio Cantatas"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 31
For "The Price of Peace"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 41
For "Bubby's Favorite Demon"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 73
For "One Tongue Tiger"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 83
For "Coup de Grace"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 101
For "Rosemary and Time"   Margaret Ballif Simon #28 110
For "Kindling"   Margaret Ballif Simon #29 19
For "The VanBulyen Effect"   Margaret Ballif Simon #29 33
For "Fort"   Margaret Ballif Simon #29 75
For "When Shlemiel Went to the Stars"   Margaret Ballif Simon #29 109
For "The Jaculi"   Margaret Ballif Simon #29 113
For "Come Frost, Sun, and Vine"   Margaret Ballif Simon #29 119
For "A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story"   Margaret Ballif Simon #30 9
For "The Egyptian Cat"   Margaret Ballif Simon #30 33
For "Guess Who's Coming to Gotterdammerung"   Margaret Ballif Simon #30 77
For "The Danger of Her Muse"   Margaret Ballif Simon #30 81
For "Sticky"   Margaret Ballif Simon #30 95
For "Patrick and Mr. Bear: A True Story"   Margaret Ballif Simon #30 118
For "Dr. Goldman's Creature"   Margaret Ballif Simon #9 37
For "In the Attic"   Margaret Ballif Simon #9 45

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