The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: September 1984 (Volume 67, Number 3)
Cover by Thomas Kidd (for "The Blister.")

Novella: "The Blister" by Frederik Pohl (part of Years of the City.)

Stories: "Redcap" by Lisa Tuttle
"Cuckoo" by Madeleine E. Robins
"Instructions" by Bob Leman
"You Shall Have a Song and Gladness of Heart" by Kim Hughes
"Pieces of Eight" by Jayge Carr,
"Armageddon Between Sets" by Edward Bryant
"Telliamed" by Bruce Sterling.

Science: "The Different Years of Time" by Isaac Asimov.