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A surprisingly quick turnaround from the previous issue, mere months, a blink in the (imagined) eye of a tree that one day may become a future issue of this zine. The chocolate has barely been bought but many stories have been read and these two (just two? one of them is quite long) rose to the top of our particular list. We have a suitcase full of stories to look in for the next issue which should be out next May.
This issue features Jessica Bromley Bartram’s nonchalant individual on, as are we all, their way somewhere. May the place we’re going be filled with excellent fiction, unexpected poetry and art, a helping hand from a fabulous cook, chocolate for those so inclined, and peace in our time.
Fiction
Dora Holland, Pomegranate Hearts
Susan DeFreitas, Hannah and Grackle, Lost in the Woods
Poetry
Jessy Randall, Five Poems
Seth Wade, Three Poems
Nonfiction
Nicole Kimberling, How to Knock a Feast Day Out the Park
About These Authors
Art
Jessica Bromley Bartram, Cover
Dawn Kimberling
Celebrating
Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche received the Blurred Boundaries Award from the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards.
Masthead & colophon
Made by
Gavin J. Grant
& Kelly Link.
Memorization not expected but applauded. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see page 17 of this issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.
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Contents © 2024 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration © 2024 Jessica Bromley Bartram. All rights reserved.
Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks authors, artists, readers.
About These Authors
An American with roots in the Caribbean and upper Midwest, Susan DeFreitas is the author of the novel Hot Season, which won a Gold IPPY Award, as well as the editor of Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, a finalist for the Foreword INDIES. Her work has been featured, or is upcoming, in the Writer’s Chronicle, LitHub, Story, StoryQuarterly, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Humanities, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Pacific University and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Dora Holland is a writer and editor. She graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a PhD in Creative Writing in 2023. She lives in northern Virginia with two big, happy cats. She is currently working on a cyberpunk-fantasy novel. You can find her on Twitter @phantasmadora.
Nicole Kimberling is a novelist and publisher who catered her own wedding reception for one hundred. She does not recommend this at all.
Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in Asimov’s, LCRW, Nature, and Scientific American. In 2025, MIT will publish her new book, The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.
Seth Wade is a tech ethicist studying and teaching philosophy at Bowling Green State University. You can read his fiction and poetry in publications such as Strange Horizons, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Hunger Mountain Review, Apparition Literary Magazine, HAD, hex, The Cafe Irreal, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, BAM Quarterly, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The Gateway Review, and now Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. You can follow him on X @SethWade4Real or Instagram @chompchomp4u.