MURDER AT THE AERO CLUB
Reviewed by "The Great Xavio"
"What's this, Hagerston? Another murder? We're on the case!" "Clearly the available evidence indicates that our suspect has been meticulously planning his gradual escape for the last eight hours. Well, I never claimed that criminals were logical." "Neither would I make such an assertion regarding fuel-addled fire safety officers. But it is of no great importance. We'll track the villain by the sound of his cellular phone! Even now my keen senses can detect its ringing several miles to the southeast."

BELLCLAP
Reviewed by "Blue Chairs"
"Trippy, dude. I'm, like, God, you know? And there's this little dude who says he's in trouble, but I'm not really sure if I should bother helping him, because nothing he tries to do makes the slightest sense, and besides there's this way-cool voice in my head who sounds really nice and polite, so I'm figuring I should just ditch the Bellclap dude and go wander nowhere in particular with this voice person."

BLINK
Reviewed by "Bellclap"
"So, Tom is in need of help. He seems to be in favor of warfare for some reason. We can fix that easily enough. ACTIVATE FLASHBACK. G. No effect, eh? SET NIGHTMARE TO ELEVEN. Complaining about predestination versus free will, is he? SMITE TOM. G. G. G."

BLUECHAIRS
Reviewed by "Goose, Egg, Badger"
"I certainly appreciate the dreamlike quality of this story, even though it's explicitly attributed to a repurposed cough syrup bottle. I can't remember, now, if I've ever tasted any animal feed that looked fungous. Anyway, it's okay by me if I never figured it all out, but I do have the strangest regret that I never got the chance to photograph anything."

BLUE SKY
Reviewed by "Splashdown"
"Good heavens! My entire tour group is missing! I must find them before they all perish! Oh, they're not going to perish? Nobody's going to perish? Well, I guess I'll try to stay motivated somehow." "The old-fashioned this-unlocks-this-unlocks-that mechanism is nice enough, but it really needs a countdown-to-doom timer. Maybe Santa Fe could be stricken by hantavirus!"

ALL THINGS DEVOURS
Reviewed by "Blink"
"This excellent game manages to leap around in time while simultaneously conveying the inescapable message that scientific experiments are evil and must be destroyed. The puzzle was very difficult, however, and could be improved by adding a TALK TO SELF command which would help coordinate the actions of one's past and future selves."

GAMLET
Reviewed by "Typo!"
"Aha, we fiddle endlessly with devices en route to a madcap out-of-control denouement. But far better to put the book at the beginning of the story, and have it document the PURLOIN KNIFE command, so that young Gamlet can commence immediately with the existential soliloquies."

GOOSE, EGG, BADGER
Reviewed by "Identity"
"I awaken full of confusion. Who am I? How can I escape from this primitive planet?" "A yak -- I'm saved! I'll just pull an Aesop on it and ride to freedom..." "Stupid useless yak." "Hooray, a wire! Now I can happily wire things until the cows come home. If only there were more things to wire. I love wiring."

THE GREAT XAVIO
Reviewed by "Chronicle Play Torn"
"It is now sadly apparent that the once-great Xavio has meddled with arcane forces beyond the understanding of mankind. I'm also fairly certain that I saw something writhe behind the mask of that so-called concierge, Zlotsky. Dr. Todd, is that you? Dr. Todd? No... No!"

IDENTITY
Reviewed by "Orion"
"Evidently this story is an homage to the Original Series era, so it doesn't need to explain why everyone speaks English. That's cool. But thwarting one pitiful deserter? Man, if I don't save the universe before lunch and get the girl, too, it's just not worth it."

MINGSHENG
Reviewed by "Blue Sky"
"The guidebook says that Mount Tai and Konglin is a very important location in Chinese culture, so we'll have to check it out, at least. I hope there's not a lot of climbing involved." "Oh look, an indigenous person. We'll just get him some tea, and he'll reward us with a souvenir of some sort." "Hey, stop knocking me down! I'm going to call the police on you, just as soon as I find my way back to actual civilization, that is."

ORDER
Reviewed by "Stack Overflow"
"I can readily identify with being yanked into another dimension, but if I'm going to need random objects, do I really have to create them all by myself? By nature, random objects should be found by searching under things or frobbing mysterious devices."

ORION
Reviewed by "The Big Scoop"
"Wow, this is the biggest scoop ever! My partner's not bad, either, but I'd be more impressed with her conversational skills if she'd simply list them for me. I can ask Rebecca about herself, Orion, SciCorps, the weather, Sweden, the insidious plot to take over the galaxy, and a few less important things, but mostly she just gives me a perplexed look."

THE BIG SCOOP
Reviewed by "Murder at the Aero Club"
"I had no idea being a reporter was so hazardous. In my world, criminals are only a danger to Aviation Safety Inspectors and fuel pumps. Luckily there was even less confusion than usual about the actual identity of the criminal. I felt guilty snooping in Arnold's office, but I'm sure he's a very busy accountant, and it would have been a shame to bother him."

SPLASHDOWN
Reviewed by "Sting of the Wasp"
"Oh great, the spaceship has crashed into the water, which is simply terrible for my hair." "I've decided to let all those other ghastly colonists melt messily, thereby becoming a Colonial Savior instead of a mere Interstellar Pioneer. Obviously they were of an inferior class, although I couldn't prevent myself from taking a few liberties with colonist #500 while he was still frozen delightfully stiff."

STACK OVERFLOW
Reviewed by "Mingsheng"
"While tranquil, this space station is not nearly tranquil enough. Its technological wizardry is no match for pure natural splendor. Equally disappointing was the 'amazing' diamond ring. Only when one has abandoned the futile pursuit of material posessions can one begin to walk on the path of true enlightenment."

CHRONICLE PLAY TORN
Reviewed by "All Things Devours"
"My plan now is simple. Go to the forbidden portal of mystery, find my granduncle, and run away. But when I try to take my trusty pillow into the pool, time unravels and the universe crashes. No problem, I'll try again, this time taking only the pillowcase. Boom again. This is getting to be more frustrating than trying to avoid myself, I must say."

TYPO!
Reviewed by "Order"
"Locked in a room, am I? CREATE KEY. [Flavorplex Psychic Typo Correction has divined that you want to "eat me"]. How rude!" "It's my considered opinion that TYPO is far too ambitious for its own good. There's no way that the parser can allow for all possible typos, and it will only make the user frustrated if it tries. 'Guess the noun' will only work if you limit the player to guessing actual words rather than arbitrary arrangements of letters."

STING OF THE WASP
Reviewed by "Gamlet"
"Oh, I've been a naughty, naughty socialite. Maybe Keith will whip me with a nine iron." "Coquille Saint Jacques! Cucumber salad! Even (gasp) gray slabs of meat! I care not for the stares of mock horror from the chattering gentiles as I devour every last morsel." "It is fitting that the world should end in fire, for what is fire but a reduction to ethereal essence, a burning away of false appearances? At least I can take comfort that these other vain caricatures have no more reality than I have."