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Ouroboros by Sorcerer. E-mail Alien tentacles are among us! From the author:
The name of the story and the opening quote come from a rather unlikely Apocryphal story in Egypt: the Virgin Mary became irritated with a woman for not letting her in line at the temple (or something equally innocuous) and told the child Jesus to send the woman into the Outer Darkness--i.e. Hell. Young Jesus complied and the woman vanished with a scream. Moved to curiosity by this infernal miracle, Mary asked
her son to describe the Outer Darkness for her, so Jesus told her about a monster-filled darkness comprised of the twelve sections of the gigantic world-serpent called Ouroboros.
This doesn't sound like the Jesus I know, nor the Virgin Mary for that matter, and the description of the Outer Darkness is taken almost verbatim from ancient Egyptian accounts of the Tuat, the Place of Dead Gods, where the sun-god descended each night; but the layout of the underworld and the shapeless snake-monsters lurking within it formed an irresistible backdrop for this kind of story. Hope it all makes a little bit more sense now!
Also from Sorcerer
Rape of the Vines is an Evil Dead takeoff. Again, the author:
This story
is an unauthorized novelization of a sequence in
the Renaissance Pictures film EVIL DEAD. All the dialogue
in this story and the story line itself are credited to Renaissance
Pictures. This story cannot be sold for profit. This novelization
is only meant to explore one of many possible psychological
interpretations of the scene and under no circumstance should
reading it be considered an adequate substitute for watching
the whole EVIL DEAD trilogy!
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Katey
by Shin.
Katey goes on an exciting little venture, at least until the dragon shows
up...