ISSUE #13 MAY.JUN 2005

So we're a couple of days late this month; that's what being issue thirteen does to us. Like the tagline says, unlucky for some. But we got there in the end and I think we've got some more fine material for your perusal.

Good news from the CSS stable this issue; Doug's got a story appearing in a future issue of the excellent Crime Spree magazine. We'll let you know when that's coming out soon as well. But since someone did ask him recently to put his money where his mouth is, we think he's done something pretty damn spanking in "The Morning After". So a round of applause to Doug.

Anyway, onto matters of more immediate concerns (also known as CSS issue #13). In this installment, we find ourselves visiting the scary town of Mangel as we review Fags and Lager and author Charlie Williams pops by to tell us about how Lost Author's Annoymous saved both him and Royston Blake from a stay in an insitution. We get all 21st Century on you as we talk to video game developers Hiding Buffalo and take a peek at their PI game, Gumshoe Online. Not only that but we have all the usual reviews and nonsense.

We also have brand new fiction. Nothing quite like last issue's Angel (which raised a few eyebrows and a few hackles) although Chris Morrow's back and as foul mouthed and violent as ever with "Crappy Trainers" while a "government" employee starts to question his vocation in Timothy Burgess's "Nothing You Can Leave Behind".

But you didn't come here to listen to me yammering on. No, you came for the real action, so go on, devour the tantalising treats of this issue and we'll be back again in only two months to spoonfeed you even more...

Russel D McLean