The Bards and Sages Quarterly starts its 12th year in publication with eight speculative tales by Guy Belleranti, William Duffy, Andrew Knighton, L.P. Melling, Wendy Nikel, David Rich, Michael Wheatley, and John Wolf. In this issue: A desperate job applicant attempts to circumvent a computer system that screens applicants based on a personality algorithm in The Plagiarist.A murderer seeks to pull off the perfect crime with some precision timing in Killing Time.A taxidermist struggling with the death of his mother becomes obsessed with his own creations in De-arrangement.