Planet Scumm Issue #8: "Sideways Infinity" Digital Magazine

WANTED: DEAD OR DISINTEGRATED: For crimes innumerable, we sentence SCUMMY S. SCUMMERTON of the ship-meteor “Planet Scumm” to death, by any means. Their numerous breaches of galactic law include:

• Theft and Destruction of Memory-Encoded Historical Documents, and the Willful Impartation of Grievous Harm to the Nervous Systems of Certain Living Historians

• Unlicensed Production and Sale of Robotic Honey and Related Products, Including (But Not Limited To) Robot-Wax Candles and Robot-Wax Lip Balms

• Impersonation of a Religious Figure and Unsafe Handling of Restricted Sacramental Foodstuffs

• Shapeshifting Without Concern for Public Welfare, and Outside the Bounds of Good Taste

• Egregious Use of Puns, Puzzles, Riddles, Stumpers and Brain-Teasers as an Inducement for Unpaid Labor

• Walking of a Dog Without a Collar

• Physical description: A slimy green [REDACTED] with a [REDACTED] sense of humor, and a huge [REDACTED]. Repeat—a HUGE [REDACTED].

If you see an individual matching this description, DO NOT APPROACH THEM. Instead, calmly alert your nearest law enforcement professional or dashing bounty hunter.

—Issue #8 features the stories:—

Bookends by Maya Dworsky-Rocha • A Taste of the Sweet Stuff by Harris Coverley • Prodigal by Steve DuBois • Shapeshifters by Maureen Bowden • Lazarus by Anna Catalano • Good Boy by Luke Foster • Original art by Jordan Alarcon and Sam Rheaume