Issue #5 cover art by Heesco Khosnaran
This is quite an issue. The story "The Puppeteer" by Tim Curran won the 2002/2003 Dark Animus new fiction award and the accompanying illustration by Heesco Khosnaran won the award for best illustration. Alec Kowalczyk won the Dark Animus award for best poem for "Mirrorrim" which appears in this issue.
Regina Brewster came in second for her illustration for "Kathleen, Furnished with Bees." "Puppet Graveyard" by George Higham, came in second in the new fiction category, and the cover by Heesco came in second for the year's best cover.
Fiction
"Puppet Graveyard" by George Higham
"That Lump" by Samuel Low
"Kathleen, Furnished With Bees" by Alinta Thornton
"To Die Dreaming" by Sam W.Anderson
"The Puppeteer" by Tim Curran
"Cheating the Devil" by Cory Daniells
"The Beetle" by Michael John Woods
"Hardboiled" by William I. Lengeman III
"Turning the Tables" by Tim Johnson
"True Love" by Nelson Stanley
Poetry:
"Mirrorrim" by Alec Kowalczyk
"Tiyanak" by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
"Rapture" by Christina Sng
"Song of the Chemical Boy" by Nile A.Coy
Internal Illustrators
Nathan Brown
Sean Madden
