Contents
Issue 4
November 2008
Contributors
Publisher: Pointless Mental Cruelty
Contributors: Phil Chase, Ben
McFarland, James Parks, Mark Shirley,
Alex White
Cover art: Alex White
Interior artists: Patrick Demo, Angela
Taylor, Alex White
Editor: Mark Philp
Layout/Design: Alex White
Regular Columns
Under the Rose
News from the Line Editor
Whos Who
Letters
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Features
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By Michelle Nephew
By Phil Chase
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By Alexander White
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one of an orphan boy, abused by
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be a great wizard and defeat a
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course, help the boy to become a
great wizard, and may well be the
mighty villain, ready to be
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his foster parents to be abusive.
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