As August (from the Latin for “hot as a hellhound’s balls”) presses upon us like two Spandex hams on a bicycle seat, we are pleased to offer you a handful of refreshingly cool stories and poems in our eighty-oneth issue.
Share a glass of lemonade with the “hinky man“; observe “The Banana Festival” from a safe distance; tremble before “Tiny Gods“; and drop a curtsy on the “The Queen of the Moon.”
Read ’em quick before they melt. And don’t miss the lovely, nightmare-inducing cover art, Fire Breather.
‘Cause 
You know how sometimes you get up for a glass of water in the middle of the night and catch a glimpse of yourself in the bathroom mirror in the dim blue glow of the nightlight and realize you are looking at an alternate universe where everything is almost, but not quite, the same as it is in our world?