Bards and Sages Quarterly (April 2012)

The Bards and Sages Quarterly 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. In this issue: A Human Resources manager finds herself in need of divine intervention when forced to deal with a troublesome new employee in The Office Messiah. While struggling to cope with his lover's illness, a man forms a strange bond with a mermaid trapped in an aquarium in Last of Her Kind. An anxious vampire hunter must confront the evils of his own actions in A Stare From the Darkness. 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 The Spectator. In a world where no female children are ever born, a religious rite to preserve humanity tests the bonds of friendship in The Changing Tree. These stories and others are found in this special double-issue.