W. Gregory Stewart is a short story writer and poet whose work has appeared Amazing Stories, Asimov's, Dreams & Nightmares, several Rhysling Anthologies, and dozens of other publications. Dark Planet is designed and edited by Lucy A. Snyder. If you spot any errors, or if you have any comments, please contact her at lusnyde@cyberus.ca. All materials copyright 1996-1998 by their respective creators. No stories, articles, poems or images from this webzine may be posted or published without the written consent of their creator(s).

Bedlam Sister by W. Gregory Stewart she gives herself she is of herself of late while at the same time not at all, and bound, she strains night seeps under eye and drifts through a changeling brain, lobe to lobe and through her seamless soul to lodge in corners recently vacated by reason where she finds shadow without shape and shape without substance chains and chains, she thinks, scrubbing skin from hands that will not clean, though washed until the blood has wept from every moon chains and chains, she thinks -- poor souls looking at her hands and reaching for another bar of soap -- poor souls poor souls...