Here Comes the Sun! Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak…but there are signs of hope. In SOLAR FLARE, we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and water-powered boat. Sail through the skies in a floating hydroponic dirigible. Skim along a solar-powered road in order to expose a corporation’s secret. Hover weightless in space in a last-ditch effort to repair an umbrella-like solar collector. Or cower in a shelter as fire rages outside…only to emerge and discover the rebirth such fire can bring. Time to turn the tide and dream of a better future. stories: Dustbowl Detective by David Keener The Race on Dry Mississippi by Anthony W. Eichenlaub Walking through Fog by Sarena Ulibarri For the Love of Loudness by Jason Palmatier Trial by Fire by Lauren C. Teffeau Going Home by S.C. Butler Refraction by Devan Barlow Of Grace and Youth and Memory and Time by Chaz Brenchley Umbrella Men by Liam Hogan The Astronaut by Nicole Givens Kurtz Hemingway Versus the Storm by Christopher R. Muscato Radiant by Rhondi Salsitz Drips of Hope by Ember Randall Lumen by Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin Interventions by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller The Repairer of Lost and Broken Things by Kristine Smith The Palmdale Community Newsletter by Anthony Love