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We may slip one of these in every now and then. Your regular weekly fayre will be with you on Friday, as usual. This is an extra bite-size portion.  \nWhen Hub first began way, way back in December 2006 (ok, it’s not that long ago, but it so much has happened it feels like a lifetime ago) we were a printed magazine with a pretty decent readership for a Small Press start-up.  \nWe received many emails and letters telling us how much people liked the fiction we were publishing. Not an inconsiderable number of these were concerned with the tale reprinted in this Hub Special.  \nAt under 1,000 words Alasdair Stuart’s Connected is a very short tale, but it packs a punch. It was recently recommended for the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.  \nIf you are a member of the British Fantasy Society, or if you were present at FantasyCon 2006 you are eligible to vote (and should have received your voting papers by now) .  \nIf you enjoy the following tale, please consider it when voting.  \nAs always, you can also leave your comments at [hubmag.wordpress.com](hubmag.wordpress.com).  \nI was having dinner with an old friend a little while back. Lucy and I have known one another for years, we grew up together, worked together for a time and then drifted apart. I ran into her a little while ago, and it was like finding a photo album that talked. We chatted for an hour and promised to meet up for dinner. Which we did.  \nLucy was exactly as I remembered her, witty, self-deprecating and frighteningly intelligent. She was also wildly eccentric and had been prone, in our younger years, to near criminal acts in order to relieve her boredom. It was Lucy who was chased over the roof of our school by the headmaster when, in the summer holidays, she decided to go climbing. It was Lucy who to this day has a straight, two inch scar running down the centre of her forehead from when she fell through a window doing the same thing later that year. And it was Lucy who had once stood up to a school bully by keying his dad's car. Thirteen times.  \nWhich is why it was so odd when she jumped at my mobile phone. Not just in that surprised way either, but she went white as a sheet and looked at it for a second with absolute terror. This woman, this beautiful, wild young woman whom I'd spent much of my teens lusting after from afar was scared of my Nokia 2310.  \nOf course, she tried to laugh it off at first, but I was persistent. There was a brittle look to her eyes, and she refused to meet my gaze until I asked her outright why the hell she was scared of my phone. 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