TABLE OF CONTENTS ALE-IEN Part 1 Steve Stilson BUG CITY Chapter 3 Joe Don Williams DOG BEACH Mephistopheles Blunt BEHIND ENEMY LINES 4. How Far They Will Go Paolo Dhin THE BIG COOL LONG HARD HAND Episode the Last: THE UNDRIVEN Jerzy Plates THE LONG VIEW Hardin Long bLACK pORN Intro #2: tHE 28TH Roan Beechler MR. SARDONICUS Homer Snopes SMALL SUR Riff Dixon THIRST Beneitha Trayne WOiMS Polski Rhumba Tootsie's Nose Jesus Elvis Back Cover About the Authors		NOIR MECHANICS is published occasionally from Los Angeles, California, a wholly owned subsidiary of some huge multi-national or other. NOIR MECHANICS requires your contributions for its pages. Send prose, close to 1500 words (copy-right it first!) with obligatory pseudonym and fabulously phony bio, to the editors. Quickly! Next issue's theme: "Twisted Legitimacy". Our editorial policy is: If it makes you feel all dark inside, you're on the right track. NOIR MECHANICS is ungrammatical. It should be MECHANICS NOIRE.We know that. And don't care. Never mistake attitude for ignorance. Entire Contents Copyright 1998 by original authors All rights reserved Contributions and Correspondence should be addressed to [email protected]