Two stories stood out for me in this issue. 'Corn Teeth' by Melanie Tem was very weird and quite disturbing. At the other end of the spectrum, "Paradise is a Walled Garden' by Lisa Goldstein was a steampunk story with a difference: it was set during Elizabeth I's reign (rather than Victoria's as so many are) and a large part of the action took place in a Moorish Spain that had lasted longer than the real Moorish Spain did. The author created a world that I'd love to see more of and she thought through the impact of steam technology at that point in history really well. Her characters were vivid and I was left both satisfied and wanting more. None of the stories in this issues were really duds, but those were the two that have stayed with me. ( )