"The Triangular Trade," by Jon Wallace, is a longish and often interesting, but ultimately not quite successful, story. The title strongly hints that it will be about slavery, but it opens depicting a trade being made for trireme (a kind of spaceship) called the "Triangular." Burgess, the new owner, finds he also needs to hire a pilot, and she ends up leading him to another world, and to freeing a group of natives of that world that he had enslaved previously. All this is against the backdrop of a mysterious foe (?) called the "Fear." Compression is a good thing in general, but here I think a bit more expansion of the backstory behind things might have improved what is, as I said, an interesting but frustrating piece. Shane Ward's "The Cataline Downfall" worked less well for me. It tells of the downfall of an alien race, the Cataline, and the escape of their children to another place, which turns out to be Earth. I never really connected with the idea of the Cataline and their peril, and the eventual resolution simply seemed tacked on. Finally, Ian Sales' "Words Beyond the Veil" is a curious thing -- a sort of paean to death metal, using actual lyrics from an album by the death metal band Mithras to illuminate a story of contact with aliens fostered by metal music. Sales is a fine writer, and the story is well enough executed, but the basic idea was not quite inspiring to me -- still, decent work.