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Review columns appeared weekly on alt.fiction.original.  All reviews copyright Gene-Michael Higney; they are stored here with his permission. Each of the review columns is stored in text format, and is just as it was downloaded from the newsgroup. Only the headers have been removed to make the file smaller.

Column One:

Coming Unstrung,  The Consumer,  Fantastic Tale,  Indian Pudding, Jimmy,  All Has Been Forgotten,  Mugger,  Paradox

 

Column Two:

Consequences,  I Dream the Dream of Three of us Together,  Please Don't,  The Lesson,  The Road Up

 

Column Three:

Fashion Show,  Memories of a Dead Woman,  Can You Help Us Please, Doc?,  On Spatial Thinking While Walking the Mall (short short)

 

Column Four:

His and Hers,  Checkmate,  Le'Petit Insomniac,  Like It Is,  Imagine That,  Faces in the Rain

 

Column Five:

'Untitled' by Ken Smith,  The Prisoner,  Winter,  Maximum Exposure,  Pavo and Serge,  Suzi,  The Wish

 

Column Six:

Statue of Liberty,  John's Living Nightmare,  Picking Flowers,  The Visionary,  'Til Death Us Do Part, Atlanta Blues,  As Old As You Feel,  Budgies Alive!

 

Column Seven:

Exposed,  My First Love,  Linkletter's Legacy,  Medusa(part 1),  Tired? Need a Change?,  Snow Queen, Say It With Flowers,  Opposition,  The Ruiners(part 1)

 

Column Eight:

The Escort,  'Untitled' by Mark Holland,  The Valley,  The Eternity of a Lifetime,  Electra - A Complex Little Girl,  The Days of Wine and Rose,  Hopelessly Addicted,  Untitled Fantasy(Opening),  Holiday Story

 

Column Nine:

And Now For The Newts,  Elegy and Hope,  At the Roman Forum,  Hanging From the Maypole(part 1), Another Story Fron the Haute Savoie

 

Column Ten:

Breach of Discipline,  Pinned Down,  The Belly of the Law,  Dockside Greek (One act play)

Column Eleven:

Dark Matter(chapter One - The Vault),  Character Interaction,  Novel Section by Erica Alison,  I Like Dogs!,  Red Light GreenLight,  Nova Starr(an opening of a story),  The Dove(#5 in the Stories from the Haute Savoie)

Column Twelve:

Dearest Cindy,  Every Body in Motion,  The Little Jenny Story,  The Haunted,  Seven Minutes,  Tripwire

Column Thirteen:

Walking on Sunshine,  Opening to a Story by Gabe Jones,  Keep the Receipt,  Jack's Surprise,  Why Can't We Be Friends?,  In Harm's Way

Column Fourteen:

Lizards form Mars(Chi-Man 2),  God's Reply,  'Untitled' by Justin Parisi,  Things to See By Between Dark Walls and Beneath Dirty Halls

Column Sixteen:

Pain(Prologue and Parts 1 & 1b),  Marek,  Dance of the Harlequin,  Eyes of Fire,  In the Beginning(1 & 2),  Religious Experience

Column Seventeen:

A Man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do,  Frustration,  'Untitled' by Peter Balfe,  Turnabout,  Pain(part 1c)

Column Eighteen:

The Diary of Andy Franklin,  Night Walk,  Mitch,  The Jesus Christ Cafe(parts 1 - 3),  Layers of Reality(parts 1 - 2),  Dark Solitude,  Fisherman's  Luck

 

Column Nineteen:

Dead Flowers,  The Jesus Christ Cafe(part 4),  Layers of Reality(parts 3 - 6),  Of Bugs Bots and Future

 

Column Twenty:

Finding Fluer,  Memories,  Passageways to Hell,  The Changing of the Guard,  Detachment

Column Twenty-one:

Opetation Jesus,  Deep Rivers of Destiny,  Matt and Sharon,  How I Met the Savior,  Price of Honour, Wayne Gentry,  Wild America,  Vicky(novel Excerpt),  Variations on a Dead Deer

Column Twenty-two:

OpenDoor,  And My memories to Keep,  Morning Drive,  Miriam,  The Incident,  Mistress of the Sea, Last Eclipse

Column Twenty-three:

But Deliver Us From Evil,  Madness Becomes You,  New Centurys End,  Predator,  Prose for Deck the Pinko Liberal,  The Big Picture,  Specter of the Storm,  Spring in Paris

Column Twenty-four:

Genesis Alpha,  Jukka Vourinen,  Why Mama So Busy,  You, My Brown-Eyed Girl,  Future Fantastic,  Creeping Up From Behind,  Message in a Bottle,  Lost

Column Twenty-five:

Deceptions,  The Dying of the Light,  How We Bought the Pagan Babies,  A Kodak Moment (part 1), The Other Half,  Space Cadets,  Breakfast in Bed

Column Twenty-six:

The Unwelcomed,  Lobbied,  Day of the Mad Dog,  The Perfect Crime,  Three Risky Words

 

Column Twenty-seven:

Brimful of Asha,  Discussion with my coffee Cup,  Tempory Help,  Lucrative Returns,   Lizards Leap (Chaps. 1&2),  Boxtops,  The Window

Column Twenty-eight:

The Dreamer, Replacement,  Say It, DamYou!, Cherry,  The Real Sunset,  Medicine Mishap,  Angel Stew

Column Twenty-nine:

The Last Night of Michael Thompson,  Lizards Leap 2 & 3,  Velva's Broken Collar Bone,  The Year of The Swan,  Trick or Treat

Column Thirty:

Ars Longa,Vita Brevis,  Ruling Species,  Music of the Night,  It Would Be Like This,  Just a Whore

 

Column Thirty-one:

To My Son, Leonard,  Christmas Carolong for Fun and Profit,  For Elsie

 

Column Thirty-two:

Blue Sky, Black Death,  A Hot, Dry, SummerDay,  After The Wedding,  The End of the |Line, Dark Like Wood, Error in Judgement

Column Thirty-three:

Mary Ellen Hill,  Untitled by JonPaul, The Frozen Man,  The Lotto,  Arthur,  The Fireman,  The Half Empty Glass

Column Thirty-four:

Music Student of the Year,  Barbi Jean,  The Replaced,  Seven Years, The Clock Said Midnight,  Transfer of Data

Column Thirty-five:

Betrayed Innocence,  The Company,  Copier Maintenance,  The End of Days, Bump in the Night

Column Thirty-six:

Trophy Wife,  Just an Accident,  Rose Town,  A Beautiful Place to Die,  Untitled by Vince Hancock

Column Thirty-seven:

Royal Cheese,  Gypsy's Riddle,  Wednesday on the Lot,  Grant Park Blues,  It's Important,  Pact of Joy

Column Thirty-eight:

Tea for Two,  The Painter and the Horse

Column Thirty-nine:

Passing Through,  Memento Mori,  Blistering,  Circuit Rider, Spiderman and Cricket

Column Forty:

Shake Rattle and Roll,  After the Blood

Column Forty-one:

A Tragedy at Night,  A Drink on Mr Harrisburg,  The River