Consequence

Letter from the Editors Dear Readers, For most anthologies assembled from unsolicited subs, the selection process is relatively straightforward: pick the strongest work that fits your genres. An interesting thing happened on the way to compiling this volume, though: many of the pieces we'd chosen had a darker-than-usual tone to them, as if each lived with a little cartoon storm cloud hovering over it. For sure, a sense of foreboding is somewhat inevitable when you're collecting works oriented to