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dark horse /ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/ noun 1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds. "a dark-horse candidate" Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion--whatever it is, if it's weird, it's here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses. In this issue: QUESTIONS A MAN OUGHT NOT TO ASK Elizabeth Broadbent STRANGE WATER Steve Carr HOLY MOUNTAIN C.J. Scuffins THE DEVIL’S TRIANGLE Wayne Kyle Spitzer MAKE IT A DOUBLE Warren Benedetto THE UNSCARED CROW Cody Nowack STRONGMAN SAFARI Mark Mellon THE GECKO KING Sam Fletcher BIRTH STORY Taryn Martinez

In the wake of their adolescence, Ben and Steven Thatch find themselves facing problems with which neither of them knows how to cope. Their mother, Tess, winds up in a coma following an accident and their father, Larry, struggles to support the family absent her income. Amidst these emotional and financially troubling times, the two boys learn to accept great changes in the way they think. Their mother finds her own challenge in simply waking up.

LulzSec is a group of Web hackers who made themselves famous for their barrage of attacks and their sarcastic taunting of victims during the summer of 2011. Members of LulzSec, short for Lulz Security, committed many well-publicized online attacks in the span of several weeks. The successful attacks included publicizing hundreds of thousands of passwords and user names from customers of supposedly secure Web sites. LulzSec’s history is a short, busy one. The group’s first known attack occurred in May 2011. By July 2011, 50 days after its first publicized hack, Lulz Security released a statement saying it would be disbanding. In between, LulzSec was in the news almost daily. LulzSec: 50 Days of Lulz is a book that offers an eye-opening account of the headline-grabbing hacker group. In this eBook, you'll learn what motivated LulzSec, what methods they used, and how their attacks affected the world.

The Pilot Station sonar project has provided daily passage estimates for Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), chum (O. keta), and coho (O. kisutch) salmon for most years since 1986. Fish passage estimates for each species were generated in 2016 using a 2-component process: (1) estimation of total fish passage with 120 kHz split-beam sonar and an adaptive resolution imaging sonar (ARIS), and (2) apportionment to species by sampling using a suite of gillnets of various mesh sizes. An estimated 4,981,917 fish passed through the sonar sampling area between May 30 and August 31. Of those fish, 1,251,212 passed along the right bank and 3,730,705 passed along the left bank. Included, with 90% confidence intervals, were 135,013 plus or minus 16,607 large Chinook salmon (greater than 655 mm mideye tail fork), 41,885 plus or minus 8,075 small Chinook salmon (less than or equal to 655 mm mideye tail fork), 1,921,748 plus or minus 80,517 summer chum salmon, 994,760 plus or minus 64,434 fall chum salmon, 168,297 plus or minus 18,403 coho salmon, 1,364,849 plus or minus 87,145 pink salmon O. gorbuscha, 187,421 plus or minus 34,214 cisco Coregonus spp., 76,955 plus or minus 15,278 humpback whitefish C. pidschian, 10,674 plus or minus 3,641 broad whitefish C. nasus, 27,759 plus or minus 9,563 sheefish Stenodus leucichthys, and 52,556 plus or minus 11,041 other species.