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Cover of Scifaikuest, May 2025

Scifaikuest, May 2025

May 2025

Editor Teri Santitoro
Cover art Richard E. Schell
Publisher Hiraeth Books
Price $10.95
Pages 64
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  • Vol. xxii, no. 4.
  • The cover art, by Richard E. Schell, is entitled Golden Girl.
  • The cover design is by Marcia Borell.
  • The issue price is intentionally sold at the lower value of $9.95 on the publisher's online shop.
  • The first line of Greg Schwartz's poem, "the time traveler's", is as given.

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
10 Essay Non Fiction Hello and Happy Spring! (editorial, Scifaikuest, May 2025) Sakyu
42 Poem Fiction I (1) Guy Belleranti
46 Poem Fiction Disappeared Debby Feo
49 Poem Fiction There Is Nothing Gentle About US John J. Dunphy
50 Poem Fiction Messages Crossed Richard E. Schell
52 Essay Non Fiction Everyday Uncanny and the Witch's Familiar: Ku's Grasp on Things (1 & 2) Robert E. Porter
56 Essay Non Fiction Favorite Poem (Scifaikuest, May 2025) T. Santitoro
15|15.1 Poem Fiction "sharing with friends" Richard E. Schell
15|15.2 Poem Fiction "gorgeous starlit serenity" Richard E. Schell
15|15.3 Poem Fiction "three body problem" Richard E. Schell
15|15.4 Poem Fiction "two lovers halt" Richard E. Schell
16|16.1 Poem Fiction Different Times Herb Kauderer
16|16.2 Poem Fiction Youthful Glee Herb Kauderer
16|16.3 Poem Fiction Reconstituted Ecosystem Herb Kauderer
17|17.1 Poem Fiction "sunflowers" Rita Melissano
17|17.2 Poem Fiction "a fiery eye" Rita Melissano
17|17.3 Poem Fiction "darkness" Rita Melissano
18|18.1 Poem Fiction "information in" Yuliia Vereta
18|18.2 Poem Fiction "in pixelated dreams" Yuliia Vereta
18|18.3 Poem Fiction "robobees take flight" Yuliia Vereta
19|19.1 Poem Fiction "humans excluded" John H. Dromey
19|19.2 Poem Fiction "veteran spacer" John H. Dromey
19|19.3 Poem Fiction "a sham rock in space" John H. Dromey
19|19.4 Poem Fiction "not really psychic" John H. Dromey
20|20.1 Poem Fiction "we gather" David C. Kopaska-Merkel
20|20.2 Poem Fiction "cat lady" David C. Kopaska-Merkel
20|20.3 Poem Fiction "full moon" David C. Kopaska-Merkel
20|20.4 Poem Fiction "fangs poke through" David C. Kopaska-Merkel
21|21.1 Poem Fiction "head in the Cloud" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
21|21.2 Poem Fiction "sudden blackout" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
21|21.3 Poem Fiction "witching hour" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
21|21.4 Poem Fiction "sleep paralysis" Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
24|24.1 Poem Fiction "all talk no work" Guy Belleranti
24|24.2 Poem Fiction "droids dropping like flies" Guy Belleranti
24|24.3 Poem Fiction "invaders from space" Guy Belleranti
25|25.1 Poem Fiction Comic Con Season Matthew Wilson
25|25.2 Poem Fiction The Lazy Babysitter Matthew Wilson
25|25.3 Poem Fiction No Mirrors Please Matthew Wilson
28|28.1 Poem Fiction Ice-Girl John Newmark
28|28.2 Poem Fiction Apology John Newmark
28|28.3 Poem Fiction "revealing her tentacles" Umi Agawa
28|28.4 Poem Fiction "failed youth serum trials" Aurelio Rico Lopez, III
29|29.1 Poem Fiction "interior design" Randall Andrews
29|29.2 Poem Fiction "earth shimmers above" Greer Woodward
29|29.3 Poem Fiction "escape hatch" Rick Jackofsky
29|29.4 Poem Fiction "Sun Ra–" Rick Jackofsky
30|30.1 Poem Fiction "stuck in the past–" Lisa Timpf
30|30.2 Poem Fiction "moon colony" John J. Dunphy
30|30.3 Poem Fiction Planet Palestine Corinne Hughes
30|30.4 Poem Fiction "hands that are not hands" Tony Daly
31|31.1 Poem Fiction Faerie Propaganda Silvatiicus Riddle
31|31.2 Poem Fiction "deadly solar flare" T. R. Jones
31|31.3 Poem Fiction High Flying Bird G. O. Clark
31|31.4 Poem Fiction "the time traveler's" Greg Schwartz
32|32.1 Poem Fiction "a knight's picnic" Brian Rosenberger
32|32.2 Poem Fiction "time travel" Umi Agawa
32|32.3 Poem Fiction "disturbingly" Laverne Oller & Richard E. Schell
32|32.4 Poem Fiction "child in the mirror" DJ Tyrer
33|33.1 Poem Fiction "skeleton" DJ Tyrer
33|33.2 Poem Fiction "interstellar spacestation" Lauren McBride
33|33.3 Poem Fiction "feathered frogs and more" Lauren McBride
33|33.4 Poem Fiction "to ward off evil" Deborah Karl-Brandt
34|34.1 Poem Fiction "bruising soft skin" Deborah Karl-Brandt
34|34.2 Poem Fiction "last remaining evidence" Richard E. Schell
34|34.3 Poem Fiction "poisoned gold sprinkles" Greer Woodward
34|34.4 Poem Fiction "vampire hosts banquet" Gary Davis
35|35.1 Poem Fiction "whizzing past black hole" Gary Davis
35|35.2 Poem Fiction "a hasty scrawl in" John H. Dromey
35|35.3 Poem Fiction Greed Benjamin Whitney Norris
35|35.4 Poem Fiction Femur Benjamin Whitney Norris
36|36.1 Poem Fiction "lightning-lit undead" Greg Fewer
36|36.2 Poem Fiction "silver threads of moonlight" Julie Allyn Johnson
36|36.3 Poem Fiction "she weds herself to the night" Julie Allyn Johnson
36|36.4 Poem Fiction "baptismal font" Greg Schwartz
37|37.1 Poem Fiction The Sixth Model Herb Kauderer
37|37.2 Poem Fiction "mercury vapor siren" Rick Jackofsky
37|37.3 Poem Fiction "amidst ancient ruins" Richard E. Schell
38|38.1 Poem Fiction "long mining contract" Richard E. Schell & Laverne Oller
38|38.2 Poem Fiction Mother Galactica's Jack Denise Noe
38|38.3 Poem Fiction Travelers Denise Noe
39|39.1 Poem Fiction Scavenger Trip Greg Fewer
39|39.2 Poem Fiction On Encountering Time Travelers at a Bank Robbery Gordon Clark
40|40.1 Poem Fiction Working Conditions Herb Kauderer
40|40.2 Poem Fiction "I shift" Colleen Anderson
40|40.3 Poem Fiction "abandoned alien outpost" Lauren McBride
41|41.1 Poem Fiction "among those odd" Lauren McBride
41|41.2 Poem Fiction Lost Objectivity Herb Kauderer
43|43.1 Poem Fiction I (2) Guy Belleranti
43|43.2 Poem Fiction The Pigman Suite Joshua E. Borgmann
45|45.1 Poem Fiction Stir Crazy Debby Feo
45|45.2 Poem Fiction You've Got to Be Kidding Debby Feo
47|47.1 Poem Fiction Tramp on a Train Denise Noe
47|47.2 Poem Fiction You Breathed Your Life Into Me Denise Noe
48|48.1 Poem Fiction Too Late Tom Guldin
48|48.2 Poem Fiction Uncommon Grounds Randall Andrews

Page Type Kind Title Author(s)
Editor Non Fiction Scifaikuest - 2025 Teri Santitoro
Cover Art Non Fiction Scifaikuest, May 2025 Richard E. Schell
26 Interior Art Non Fiction First Contact Goes Awry Lisa Timpf
27 Interior Art Non Fiction Flora Fracas Denise Noe