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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 19 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
This is our first digital issue. It’s full of everything Shimmer’s famous for: stories of love and loss and hope and death — and a double helping of wings.
The Earth & Everything Under, by K. M. Ferebee
Peter had been… More
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The Best of Galaxy’s Edge: 2013-2014 Mike Resnick
Whether it’s God walking into the Draco Tavern, stony spirits talking to relatives, a robot plotting the ultimate murder, or the ability to see distinct patterns in the vibrations caused by uttering words and phrases… More
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The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories A. C. Wise
Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you the Kissing Booth Girl! Lips that beguile. Oh, I promise, the nearest thing to nuzzling an angel can be yours — today! — for a shiny round Seated Liberty I know you carry in your very pockets… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 44 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
The Passenger, by Emily Lundgren I try to take a picture of the eerie. The power’s out, so I’m like, okay, standing outside the Pump n’ Stuff, looking at the gas pumps. My last customer was twenty minutes… More
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At the Edge of Waking Holly Phillips
With In the Palace of Repose, her debut collection of mostly unpublished work, Holly Phillips accomplished the improbable. The unknown Canadian author received critical acclaim and numerous honors including the… More
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Monterra’s Deliciosa and Other Tales and Anna Tambour
A powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child’s-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose work has been described by World Fantasy… More
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Blue Shifting Eric Brown
"The blue light thickened, blotting out Janner’s surroundings, and he existed in a displaced void-like limbo. Then the blue light vanished. Christ, he cried to himself, where the hell now?"
It begins… More
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Salvage Eric Brown
When Salvageman Ed saves Ella Rodriguez from spider-drones on the pleasure planet of Sinclair’s Landfall, he has no idea what he’s letting himself in for. Ella is not at all what she seems, as he’s… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 26 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
The one constant of our world is change, whether it be climates, bodies, or viewpoints. Hot goes cold, light goes dark, what was unseen and bypassed can no longer be. These four stories will take you on four such journeys… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 27 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
The future is closer than we know, but so is the past. Turn a corner and you may find yourself swallowed by another era: by a cloud of dust, by a house, by a black and sunless world–by the swirling hair of your lover. Each will… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 30 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
Ruby slippers. Yellow brick road. Emerald City. Green witch. Blue flying monkeys.
The streaming green Matrix. The ignition of a blue lightsaber. The scarlet glow of an angry AI. The rainbow stars of early warp… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 41 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
Sometimes, it’s what you don’t see that is scariest of all. (But then sometimes you glimpse it? And it’s all teeth and claws and dripping light encased in darkness and you think shit I need a bigger … More
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The Fall of Tartarus Eric Brown
In myth Tartarus was the lowest region of hell. In reality it is a world about to die…
I’d heard many a tale about Tartarus Major, how certain continents were technological backwaters five hundred years … More
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Microcosms: Forty-Two stories Tony Ballantyne et al.
Philip K. Dick Award nominated writers Tony Ballantyne and Eric Brown bring together forty-two fantastical short-short stories, featuring new takes on every SF trope from alien invasion, robots, and time-travel,… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 42 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
Issue #42 of Shimmer contains the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Promise.
The Triumphant Ward of the Railroad and the Sea by Sara Saab Almost everyone I entertain over a frosted fifth of vodka — bottle… More
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Shimmer Magazine – Issue 38 E. Catherine Tobler et al.
Sometimes, especially now, you need a dash of the old-fashioned adventure story. You’ll find a couple of those herein, but we’ve also thrown old-fashioned out the window, because we’re Shimmer,… More