- “The Nightmare Delivery Service” by Angela Liu (fiction)
- “Even Ferns Cringe” by R. Jean Bell (poem)
- “Waiting for Beauty” by Marie Brennan (fiction)
- “Adhering the Pieces of My Shattered Mind” by Dana Vickerson (fiction)
- “Abstain from Spinning, Beauty” by Dyani Sabin (poem)
- “Mirrored” by Jennifer Hudak (fiction)
- “12 Foolproof Ways to Solve the Grandfather Paradox” by Kurt Pankau (fiction)
- “Labyrinth” by Diana Dima (poem)
- “The First Five Minutes of ReBirth” by Matt Thompson (fiction)
Locus September 2024 (#764)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Justin C. Key and a spotlight on artist Micaela Alcaino. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2025. News covers 2024 Hugo Awards winners, the World Fantasy Awards ballot, Dragon Awards finalists, SFWA resignations, SF&F Hall of Fame inductees Okorafor and Griffith, MacInnes’s Clarke win, additional Gaiman allegations, the Galaxy magazine revival, and more. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled Marshmallow Longtermism. International coverage includes the Future Fiction Workshop in Sichuan and SF/F/H in Spain. Taral Wayne, M.J. Engh, Deborah P. Kolodji, and A. Heather Wood are remembered with obituaries. Reviews include new titles by Rivers Solomon, Alan Moore, Adam Roberts, Nghi Vo, James S.A. Corey, Cherie Priest, Molly Morris, H.E. Edgmon, Helen Phillips, Pol Guasch, Logic, Michael J. DeLuca, Ken MacLeod, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ananda Lima, Jesse Ball, Kerstin Hall, Sven Holm, Sunny Moraine, Nikhil Singh, and others.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #132 September 2024
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September 2024 issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
Fiction in fewer words.
In this month’s issue:
“Editorial: Westerns and Weather Events” by Rebecca Halsey
“Tornado Breakers Don’t Cry” by Stefan Alcalá Slater
“The Hanging of Billy Crabtree” by H. A. Eugene
“Nosebleed Weather” by Marilyn Hope
“In The Harvest a Cloud” by Rich Larson, and
“The Ruby Level” by L.L. Madird
Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.
Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.
The Dark – Issue 112
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Wiremother” by Laura Mauro
“Sundown in Duffield” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“The Ribbon Rule” by Mae Jimenez
“Big Boned” by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 216
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedClarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art.
Our September 2024 issue (#216) contains:
* Original fiction by Marissa Lingen (“The Music Must Always Play”), Tiffany Xue (“Fish Fear Me, You Need Me”), Laura Williams McCaffrey (“Broken”), Eric Schwitzgebel (“How to Remember Perfectly”), Cirilo Lemos (“The Children I Gave You, Oxalaia”), Ben Berman Ghan (“Those Who Remember the World”), Renan Bernardo (“A Theory of Missing Affections”), and R H Wesley (“A World of Milk and Promises”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Gunnar De Winter, interviews with Aliette de Bodard and A.C. Wise, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 116
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our September 2024 issue features “Machine Learning” by Nancy Kress, “Chine Life” by Paul McAuley, “The Astrakhan, the Homburg, and the Red Red Coat” by Chaz Brenchley and “The Audience” by Sean McMullen. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Dirty Magick Magazine Volume One Issue One
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedAbout Dirty Magick Magazine
Dirty Magick Magazine is a monthly fantasy, urban fantasy, and gothic horror magazine first published in September 2024. The editor and publisher is C.D. Brown.
Volume One Issue One: Rob D. Smith, Brandon Barrows, Jon Chan
Dirty Lens: Cast A Deadly Spell
We also publish a monthly film column The Dusty Lens which spotlights forgotten and cult films.
Weird Horror 9
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #415
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #415 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Timothy Mudie and Will McMahon.
Interzone #300
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIn this issue: stories by Rachael Cupp, Fábio Fernandes, Lyle Hopwood, Noah Lemelson, and Carlos Norcia; columns by Alexander Glass, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; and book reviews by Zachary Gillan, Kelly Jennings, Nick Mamatas, Paul McAuley, Premee Mohamed, and Val Nolan. The cover art, HATE: A GENEALOGY, is by Dante Luiz.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #414
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #414 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Cat Rambo and Grace Seybold.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 48
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLCRW IIL or 4 x 1 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 1
or more properly XLVIII.
Aimed for May, came out in September. A little disturbing, a little comforting, a little collection of imagined places to while away the days.
Published in this leapyear. Editing: accomplished. Stories: gathered. Design partaken of.
Proofing? Yes. Printing: c/o Paradise Copies. Ebook: This is it. Distribution: DRM-free at Weightless Books and DRM’d everywhere else. Read by 10.2
million people every million years or so.
R.I.P. Howard Waldrop, oh we enjoyed knowing and working (if never fishing) with you.
Celebrating:
Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche is a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award finalist; Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places (& Small Beer) were Locus Award finalists; Naomi Mitchison was Readercon’s Memorial Guest of Honor.
Ink: Gavin J. Grant
Spaces: Kelly Link.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 48. Aimed for May, came out in September 2024. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731227.
LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Print version text: New Caledonia LT Std; Titles: Imprint MT Shadow; printed by Paradise Copies.
Thanks, Valerie.
Subscriptions: $24/4 print issues (see page 52 of the print edition or below for options). By mail: please make checks out to Small Beer Press. Only surreal ingredients.
Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.
LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through the lovely weightlessbooks.com, &c.
Contents © 2024 the authors. All rights reserved.
Cover illustration “Castle Panther” © 2024 Gessica Maio 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 again, authors, artists, readers.
Table of Contents
Fiction
Lyndsie Manusos, Mnemonic
W. J. Tattersdill, The Skildraffen Stitch
Summer Olsson, Divergence at the Village Thrift
Zebulon House, Pianoskin Boots
Victor Ladis Schultz, Tributary
Bess Lovejoy, Internal Theft
Jennifer Hudak, The Witch Trap
Poetry
Rachel Ayers, The Soldier and Death
Daniel Rabuzzi, Along the River’s Edge
Nonfiction
Gavin J. Grant, Zining
Nicole Kimberling, The Food of Sadness
Dave Myers, Howard Waldrop Fishing: The Oso Letters 1995-2002
About These Authors
Art
Deborah Mills, b&w art
Gessica Maio, cover art: “Castle Panther”
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 171 (August 2024)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF-and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
Welcome to issue 171 of LIGHTSPEED! It’s hard to think of two topics more SFnal than time travel and robots, and so we’re delighted to present this month’s two extremely science fictional short stories. Richard Thomas gives time travel a spooky spin his new tale “The Darkness Between the Stars.” Archita Mittra spins a tale of android friendship in her story “The Quality of Mercy Is Not Strain’d.” We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Resistance” from Cat Rambo and “Under the Skin” by Deborah L. Davitt. Astronomy can’t shake its connections to the gods, not when so many constellations are named for mythological entities, and Dominique Dickey delves into both topics in their hard-hitting fantasy tale “Look at the Moon.” Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe turns our gaze away from the sky in his magical story “Child of the River.” We also have a flash story (“Mud Maidens Rise”) from K.A. Wiggins and a very special fairy tale retelling (“What’s in a Name”) from Matthew Hughes.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 143 (August 2024)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
Welcome to issue #143 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Erin Brown (“Butter”) and Cody Goodfellow (“Queen of the Rodeo”). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story (“Painted Surfaces”) from Guan Un and a poem (“Witches’ Sabbath”) from Lisa M. Bradley. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Michael J. Seidlinger.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #131 August 2024
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2024 issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
Fiction in fewer words.
In this month’s issue:
“Editorial: Breaking Character” by Rebecca Halsey
“Give a Smile at Ye Old Photographie Shoppe” by Carol Scheina
“This Rapturous Blooming” by Faith Allington
“Godiva of the Broken Shell” by Maya Dworsky-Rocha
“In The Path of The Giantess” by Sarah Jackson, and
“The Sibyl” by Anna Dallara
Flash Fiction Online offers readers flash fiction stories from more established, award-winning authors and newer writers just emerging in the fiction story-scape. We publish literary, science fiction, fantasy, and horror, in a delicious mix of interesting characters, tantalizing plots, and wonderful world-building.
Flash fiction might be small, but each story packs an entire story arc into only a thousand words or fewer. Whether you call this art form a short-short, a micro-fiction, a drabble, or a smokelong, it spans all genres and literary styles.
Small Wonders Magazine – Issue 14
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSmall Wonders is a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry. Issue 14 (August 2024) contains:
The Dark – Issue 111
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Once There Was Water” by Katie McIvor
“The Operculum Necklace” by Alison Littlewood
“Bite Me, Drink Me, Eat Me” by H. Pueyo
“Garden of Guiding Eyes and Grabbing Bones” by Ai Jiang