Polluto 3
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Adam Lowe is author of Troglodyte Rose. Rhys Hughes is author of A Universal History of Infamy. Steve Redwood is author of Who Needs Cleopatra?. Deb Hoag is author of Crashin' the Real. Marshall Payne is reviewer for The Fix.

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...despite the transgressive subject matter, [it is] lighthearted. VerrataA" is the first gem of the issue. John Hornor Jacobs won't win any prizes for originality...but its intense evocation of the sleazy swampland slum that used to be New Orleans drops the reader into the heart of the story. Rhys Hughes's knowingly filthy pastiche of monetary fraud has a character called Peter the Tenant who finds that someone has emptied his lifetime supply of seminal fluid. It's probably just a coincidence that the main character's name is very similar to TTA Press columnist and proofreader Peter Tennant. Of course it is. The Groin SnatcherA" is another of the highlights here, and, while it may not be Hughes at his best, it's fun. Janett L. Grady's Faux Pas, DocA" is the short and effective story of an aging sex-bot in an age of moral repression that doesn't seem too far away from the fundamentalist right wing of present-day America. When the robot runs across his creator, he sees that there may be an opportunity for survival. Or maybe not. The Highway GirlA" in Robert Lamb's even shorter story has revenge (or entrapment) on her mind, and she unpleasantly turns the tables on the man who attempts to rape her. He then finds that he has to deal with all of the consequences. After a brutal start, the story then moves on to a much more interesting place. Steve Redwood's sober DamagedA" is a bleak look at the way men view women. When Maria 8 (the name deliberately evoking in the reader an image of the robot from Metropolis) starts to show signs of wear and tear, John Smith thinks of taking her back to the library for a service. This will mean, however, that her memories will be wiped. She will no longer remember their time together. Worse still, she could be returned to the previous user who had treated her shoddily and inflicted damage on her. But she needs a service-the silver paint is starting to peel off, revealing the pink layer beneath. What to do? This frank and searching story has an excellent chance of making it into some of the Year's Best anthologies. Michael R. Colangelo's punky Steel Teeth and SyntheticsA" is set in a violent, postapocalyptic city where cannibalism for food and spare parts is rife. There is a very active black market in mechanical organs, and pragmatic alliances and recreational drugs make life endurable, if not enjoyable. It's a lively adventure and well rendered, and you'll already know by the description whether you'll enjoy it or not. There is a piece of surreal flash fiction from Frank Burton called The Day She MeltedA" that is smoothly written, accurately titled, and about a paragraph long... This issue of Polluto is again a fine-looking magazine and...it is still a pleasure to read. 'What happens when you take the online component of 3AM Magazine, the speculative works and wonder of Zahir, the artistic equivalent of Juxtapoz Magazine, and throw in something new, fresh, dark, gritty, hip, surreal, poetic, and themed? You get Polluto: The Anti-Pop Culture Journal...' Lawrence Dagstine

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