Fantasy Magazine, Issue 34
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
After the Dragon by Sarah Monette (fiction)
my mother, the ghost by Willow Fagan (fiction)
Above It All by Carol Emshwiller (fiction)
The Wing Collection by Eilis O’Neal (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Sarah Monette
Author Spotlight: Willow Fagan
Author Spotlight: Carol Emshwiller
Author Spotlight: Eilis O’Neal
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 23
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe August 2008 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Yoon Ha Lee (“Blue Ink”), Meghan McCarron (“Tetris Dooms Itself”) and Theodora Goss (“Her Mother’s Ghosts”), an interview with Gene Wolfe, and an article on writing by Theodora Goss.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 33
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Choke Point by Sarah Totton (fiction)
The Tongue of Bees by Claire Humphrey (fiction)
The Raccoon�s Daughter by Nicole Kornher-Stace (fiction)
The Chrysanthemum Bride by Angela Slatter (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Sarah Totton
Author Spotlight: Claire Humphrey
Author Spotlight: Angela Slatter
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2008 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Margaret Ronald (“When the Gentlemen Go By”) and Sergey Gerasimov (“The Glory of the World”), an interview with John Grant and Paul Barnett by Jeff VanderMeer, an article about vintage paperback by Lisa Morton and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 32
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Reading by Numbers by Aidan Doyle (fiction)
Into the Monsoon by A. M. Muffaz (fiction)
Medusa Complex by Christie Skipper Ritchotte (fiction)
My Best Friend�s Girl by Ari Goelman (fiction)
Cesare by Megan Arkenberg (fiction)
The Confessions of Prince Charming by Kelly Barnhill (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Aidan Doyle
Author Spotlight: Christie Skipper Ritchotte
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 21
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2008 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Mary Robinette Koal (“Clockwork Chickadee”) and Paul Jessup (“The Secret in the House of Smiles”), an interview with Laird Barron, an article by Ekaterina Sedia and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThere are 60 pages in this zine. It was put together on a couple of MacBooks and an iMac using InDesign. No CEOs were fired during the production of this zine. At least, not here. One copy was printed on gold leaves and buried in a blatant attempt to copy The King’s Last Song. This web page was written using an Old copy of DreamWeaver. One of these days we’ll update the software and the website. One of these days. In the meantime we keep producing high-quality low-cost paper zine in part because 1) we’ll keep doing this until the subscribers stop subscribing and the writers stop sending us good weird shit and 2) if we can do it, so can you.
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Made in the May of 2008 by:
Gavin J. Grant · Kelly Link
Jedediah Berry · Michael Deluca · Katharine Duckett · Margaret Kinney · Sara Majka · Julia Botero
Fiction
William Alexander, “Away”
Charlie Jane Anders, “Love Might Be Too Strong a Word”
Becca De La Rosa, “Vinegar and Brown Paper”
Kristine Dikeman, “Dearest Cecily”
Carol Emshwiller, “Self Story”
Alex Dally MacFarlane, “Snowdrops”
Maureen F. McHugh, “Going to France”
Jeremie McKnight, “The Camera & the Octopus”
Mark Rigney, “Portfolio”
David J. Schwartz, “Mike’s Place”
Jodi Lynn Villers, “The Honeymoon Suite”
Caleb Wilson, “American Dreamers”
Cara Spindler, “Escape”
Miriam Allred, “To a Child Who Is Still a FAQ”
Poetry
Eileen Gunn, “To the Moon Alice”
Nonfiction
Gwenda Bond, Dear Aunt Gwenda
Comics
Abby Denson, “Snake Slayer”
Michael J. DeLuca, “The Freddie Mercury Challenge”
Cover
Derek Ford, Cover Art
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, No.22 June 2008. ISSN 1544-7782 Text in Bodoni Book. Titles in Imprint MT Shadow. Since 1996 LCRW has usually appeared in June and November from Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · info@lcrw.net lcrw.net/lcrw $5 per single issue or $20/4. Contents © the authors. All rights reserved. Submissions, requests for guidelines, & all good things should be sent to the address above. No SASE: no reply. Thanks for reading. This zine is printed by Paradise Copies, 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060 413-585-0414
Who Was That Masked Writer?
William Alexander lives in Minneapolis with spouse and cat. His stories have appeared in Zahir, Weird Tales, and Postscripts, and one will be reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008. He contributes to Rain Taxi Review of Books. In the summer of ’06 he attended the Clarion Workshop. It was fun.
Miriam Allred has a BA in Comparative Literature and French from Brigham Young University and an MA in English from Cleveland State University. She lives in Salt Lake City, near many supportive friends and family members, where she earns a living writing about routers and wireless networks. She also writes stories.
Charlie Jane Anders blogs about science fiction and futurism for io9.com. She’s the author of Choir Boy and the co-editor of She’s Such A Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology & Other Nerdy Stuff. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, Salon, Sex For America, Paraspheres, and MonkeyBicycle. She’s the co-founder of other magazine and the host of a reading series, Writers With Drinks, in San Francisco.
Gwenda Bond is writing young adult novels on a tin machine that has no internet access.
Becca De La Rosa has recently had fiction published in Strange Horizons and the Fantasy Magazine anthology, among other places. She is currently studying English at an art college in Ireland.
Michael J. DeLuca has published fiction in Interfictions and Clockwork Phoenix. He makes beer and other libations in Massachusetts.
Abby Denson is a cartoonist and rock’n’roller in NYC. She is the creator of Tough Love: High School Confidential, Dolltopia, and Night Club, among others. She has scripted Powerpuff Girls and comics for Nickelodeon. She has webcomics on gurl.com and a dessert comic column, “The City Sweet Tooth†(citysweettooth.com) in The L Magazine. abbycomix.com
Kristine Dikeman lives in NYC. Her work has appeared in The Many Faces of Van Helsing, The Book of Final Flesh, Sybil’s Garage, and All Hallows. She is working on a novel, Eating Manhattan, a lighthearted romp through New York, with zombies.
Carol Emshwiller‘s most recent books are a novel, The Secret City, a young adult novel, Mr. Boots, and a collection, I Live with You. Small Beer published her novel The Mount and her collection, Report to the Men’s Club as well as reprinting her first novel, Carmen Dog.Recent awards include a couple of Nebulas for short stories, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She lives in New York City.
Eileen Gunn is the author of a collection, Stable Strategies and Others, and co-editor of The WisCon Chronicles Two. She is the publisher of the Infinite Matrix, and in the dead of night can hear it stomping around in the attic. For nearly 20 years, she has been on the board of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and she thinks it’s time for someone else to take over.
Alex Dally MacFarlane has been writing ever since the discovery of computer games made her think that if stories could be found on a 32-bit cartridge, why not in the mind of an 11-year-old girl? Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Electric Velocipede, Shimmer, Sybil’s Garage, Farrago’s Wainscot, and a few other places. Her longer fiction is still being kick-polished.
Maureen F. McHugh‘s most recent book is a collection of short stories, Mothers & Other Monsters. She writes novels and Alternate Reality Games. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Jeremie McKnight was born under the restless skies of Ohio farm-country where he began his storytelling at an early age. By high school he was a published and award-winning author. And then he stopped. He now lives in Pittsburgh PA., and this is his first story in over a decade. It has made him very happy.
Mark Rigney is the author of Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical. His short fiction has appeared in Shadow Regions, Talebones, The Bellevue Literary Review, Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, &c. His plays for the stage have won national contests and been performed in six states. Having worked as a zookeeper, he is now proud to be a stay-at-home father.
David J. Schwartz is all around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship. His first novel, Superpowers, is in stores as you are reading this. He is allergic to midichlorians.
Cara Spindler likes apples, broccoli, and eel, but hates ham and cantaloupe. She likes strolling, running, swimming—but hates to sit. And she still has five continents to visit before she dies.
Jodi Lynn Villers has her MFA from North Carolina State University. She lives in downtown Raleigh with a beagle named Turtle and has written a novella about a rehabilitation camp for girls who have killed their parents. Her short-shorts have also appeared in Staccato and Quick Fiction.
Caleb Wilson‘s fiction has appeared in places like Diagram, Weird Tales, and The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He and his wife life in Illinois. His alter-ego works in a bookstore.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 31
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Clockatrice by Tanith Lee (fiction)
La Mer by Simon Logan (fiction)
Jews in Antarctica by Lavie Tidar (fiction)
Undocumented by Rachel Swirsky (fiction)
Light on the Water by Genevieve Valentine (fiction)
In Dreams Tangible by Su-Yee Lin (fiction)
A Song to Greet the Sun by Alaya Dawn Johnson (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Genevieve Valentine
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 30
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
The White Part of the Apple by Emily Tersoff (fiction)
The Good Window by Lisa Hannett (fiction)
Tending the Mori Birds by Caroline M. Yoachim (fiction)
The Girl in the Green Sequined Dress by Berrien Henderson (fiction)
Images of Anna by Nancy Kress (fiction)
The Moon Over Tokyo through Leaves in the Fall by Jerome Stueart (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Lisa Hannett
Author Spotlight: Berrien Henderson
Author Spotlight: Nancy Kress
Author Spotlight: Jerome Stueart
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 29
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Offerings by Stephanie Burgis (fiction)
The Vigilant by Dirk Strasser (fiction)
Golden Lilies by Aliette de Bodard (fiction)
Notes Toward a Comparative Mythology by Nicole Kornher-Stace (fiction)
Playing with Spades by Mari Ness (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Stephanie Burgis
Author Spotlight: Dirk Strasser
Author Spotlight: Aliette de Bodard
Author Spotlight: Mari Ness
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 28
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
The Integrity of the Chain by Lavie Tidhar (fiction)
The Water Tower by John Mantooth (fiction)
Trench Foot by Catherine J. Gardner (fiction)
Lake Tahoe�s Lover by Nadia Bulkin (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Lavie Tidhar
Author Spotlight: John Mantooth
Author Spotlight: Catherine J. Gardner
Author Spotlight: Nadia Bulkin
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 27
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Woman in Abaya with Onion by Ruth Nestvold (fiction)
Superhero Girl by Jessica Lee (fiction)
People of Leaf and Branch by Jay Lake (fiction)
Timepiece by Gay Partington Terry (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Ruth Nestvold
Author Spotlight: Jessica Lee
Author Spotlight: Gay Partington Terry
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 26
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Oh He Is by Karen Heuler (fiction)
Revisionist History by Alison Campbell-Wise (fiction)
Voice Like a Cello by Catherine Cheek (fiction)
Ozma Appears by L. Frank Baum (fiction)
Author Spotlight: Karen Heuler
Author Spotlight: Alison Campbell-Wise
Author Spotlight: Catherine Cheek
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 25
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Garkain by Samantha Henderson
Early Winter, Near Jenli Village by J. Kathleen Cheney
Shades of White and Road by Camille Alexa
The Most Dangerous Profession by Sergey Gerasimov
Author Spotlight: Samantha Henderson
Author Spotlight: J. Kathleen Cheney
Author Spotlight: Camille Alexa
Author Spotlight: Sergey Gerasimov
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 21
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNovember 2007 · $4
LCRW 21 is the latest iteration of the eleven-dimensional being known as LCRW. Although it has always been there, it began protruding into our space time consciousness in November of 2007 as a sixty-page stapled zine with a lovely creamy cover.
Humans cannot perceive the other seven dimensions of LCRW, but if they put it against the top of their head while jumping off a small box of caramels, they can get a hint of what they are missing.
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Made in the Autumn of 2007 by:
Gavin J. Grant · Kelly Link
Jedediah Berry · Michael Deluca · Annabel Link
Fiction
Alice Sola Kim, The Night and Day War
Adam Ares, The Curmudgeon
Matthew Cheney, The Lake
Stephanie Brady Tharpe, On a Dark and Featureless Plain
Jeannette Westwood, Two Variations
Kirstin Allio, Clay
Brian Conn, The Postern Gate
Benjamin Parzybok, The Coder
Corie Ralston, Maps to God
Carol Emshwiller, Sanctuary
Poetry
Lauren Bartel, Two Poems
Nonfiction
Gwenda Bond, Dear Aunt Gwenda
Mamoru Masuda, A Primer on New Wave and Speculative Fiction in Japan
Comics
Suzanne Baumann, The Blokes of Ball Point
Abby Denson, The Mysterious Mr. M.
Cover
Tatsuro Kiuchi
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, No.21 November 2007. ISSN 1544-7782 Text in Bodoni Book. Titles in Imprint MT Shadow. Since 1996 LCRW has usually appeared in June and November from Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 (Please note that’s a new address.) · info@lcrw.net lcrw.net/lcrw $5 per single issue or $20/4. Contents © the authors. All rights reserved. Submissions, requests for guidelines, & all good things should be sent to the address above. No SASE: no reply. Thanks for reading. This zine is printed by Paradise Copies, 30 Craft Ave., Northampton, MA 01060 413-585-0414
About the authors
Today’s Writers Today
Kirstin Allio‘s novel Garner (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award for First Fiction. She has recently been selected one of “5 Under 35” writers to watch (and hopefully read) by the National Book Foundation. She lives in Providence, RI with her husband and sons.
Adam Ares enjoys staring at blank word processor documents, reading books in languages that he doesn’t really understand, and Galaga. Perhaps, in the future, he will put adamares.com to some better use than he does now.
Trained in yoga, baking and phlebotomy, Lauren Bartel lives in Minneapolis where she is currently involved with the newborn book publishing efforts of Whistling Shade Press, contributing to various food-related publications, and planting tomatoes.
Suzanne Baumann has been making minicomics for over a dozen years and plans to make many more. She feels most at ease in places where there are lots of pens and scraps of paper lying around.
Gwenda Bond is writing young adult novels while keeping her pets in line and her books close by.
Matthew Cheney has published fiction and nonfiction in Rabid Transit, Locus, Pindeldyboz, Strange Horizons, Failbetter.com, Rain Taxi, English Journal, and other venues of questionable taste. He is the series editor for Best American Fantasy. He teaches high school in New Jersey.
Brian Conn grew up in a forest where it often rained on Christmas Eve. His work has also appeared in GUD and Sybil’s Garage. He is an MFA student at Brown and a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. He lives in Providence, and the only thing that can make him laugh these days is Beckett.
Abby Denson is the creator of Tough Love: High School Confidential, Dolltopia, and Night Club. She has scripted Powerpuff Girls Comics, Simpsons Comics, and comics for Nickelodeon Magazine. She rocks out with her bands Abbymatic and The Saturday Night Things. She loves New York, container gardening, and her cat, Slinky.
Carol Emshwiller‘s most recent books are a novel, The Secret City, a young adult novel, Mr. Boots, and a collection, I Live with You. Small Beer published her novel The Mount and her collection, Report to the Men’s Club as well as reprinting her first novel, Carmen Dog.Recent awards include a couple of Nebulas for short stories, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. She lives in New York City.
Alice Sola Kim lives in San Francisco and works at a strange startup. Most recently, her job has involved gossiping about Nicole Richie eating a Kit Kat bar. Her work has appeared in Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies, and is forthcoming in Strange Horizons.
Benjamin Parzybok is the publisher of Gumball Poetry, a literary journal published into gumball machines. He founded the Black Magic Insurance Agency which runs a city-wide mystery/treasure hunt called Operation Peachblow. He lives in Portland, OR, with the writer Laura Moulton and their son. He has two novels ready to go: Couch, in which three social misfits carry a couch from Oregon to South America and A Body of Water where a 20-something isn’t sure whether to help his brother commit euthanasia.
Corie Ralston is a scientist by profession, although sometimes she wonders what on earth possessed her to go to graduate school. She writes in the spare nanoseconds of her life, in all the transitions, wishing always that there was more time. She has been published in Strange Horizons and a variety of other venues. She is absolutely determined to finish her novel. And she does not need utensils to hear her mother.
Stephanie Brady Tharpe is a lifelong resident of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. She spends her time writing, raising her fifteen-year-old daughter, and teaching English and Creatiove Writing at Skyline High School. Her poetry appears in multiple volumes of The Poet’s Domain. This is her first fiction publication.
The Best of LCRW is doing fine, thanks for asking. How are you? Did Aunt Gwenda’s answer help?
Jeannette Westwood still lives in California. Her newest hobby is stenciling and painting T-shirts.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 24
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on fantasy fiction. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy–high fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales…and anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the intelligent genre reader–we publish stories of the fantastic that make us think, and tell us what it is to be human.
Table of Contents:
Chemical Magic by Katherine Sparrow
Jane by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Birds by Jean-Claude Dunyach
White Stone by Genevieve Valentine
Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance by Lord Dunsany
Author Spotlight: Nicole Kornher-Stace
Author Spotlight: Lord Dunsany