Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 60, January 2023
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 60, January 2023
Lezli Robyn, Editor
Lauren Rudin, Assistant Editor
Z.T. Bright, Slush Reader
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eric Leif Davin, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Michael Swanwick, Yefim Zozulya (translated by Alex Shvartsman), Marc A. Criley, Mike Resnick, Alan Smale, Alicia Cay
Jean Marie Ward Interviews Nisi Shawl
Serialization: The Reflection of Mount Vitaki by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Columns by: L. Penelope, Alan Smale
Recommended Books: Richard Chwedyk
Galaxy’s Edge is a bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by L. Penelope, Alan Smale and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 196
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 January 2023 issue (#196) contains:
* Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“Symbiosis”), Gregory Feeley (“The Fortunate Isles”), R.T. Ester (“Anais Gets a Turn”), Cao Baiyu (“Reverie”), Natasha King (“Sharp Undoing”), and Felix Rose Kawitzky (“Pearl”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Julie Novakova, interviews with Bora Chung & Anton Hur and Lisa Yaszek, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 96
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 January 2023 issue features “Super Sprouts” by Ian Creasey, “The Shadow of His Wings” by Ray Nayler, and “The Liberator” by Nick Wolven. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 46
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedShort stories, four poems from Marge Piercy, and a cooking column because once I read a zine with a cooking column and loved it. I thought it would be fun and interesting to ask Nicole Kimberling to write one and I’ve been delighted to read her columns ever since.
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 46. December 2022. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732101. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw · twitter · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see here or the print issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press.
Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.
LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c.
Contents © 2022 the authors. All rights reserved.
Cover illustration © by Christine Larsen (christinelarsenillustration.com).
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #372
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #372 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Ariel Marken Jack.
On Spec Magazine #122 VOL 32 No 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 32 No 4 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Alex Langer (“Fire Flows Downhill”), Andrea Bernard (“I’ll Have My Toast With Jam, Please”), Judy Helfrich (“Blister”), David Tallerman (“Compassion Fatigue”), Aaron Perry (“Loaner Bodies”), Liz Westbrook-Trenholm (“Botman’s Tale”), E.A. Mylonas (“Acceptance”, Jonathan Lenore Kastin (“The Yellow House”), and Arinn Dembo (“Quirks”). Poetry by Thomas Mixon (“We Come in Peace”), and Melissa Yuan-Innes (“Rapunzel in the Desert”). Interview with Liz Westbrook-Trenholm by Roberta Laurie. Cover by Ken Macklin. Interview with Ken Macklin by Cat McDonald. Editorial by Lareina Abbott. Cartoon and featured ‘bot by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #371
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #371 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Gretchen Tessmer and Laine Perez.
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 86 (December 2022)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedFANTASY MAGAZINE is a digital magazine focusing exclusively on the fantasy genre. In its pages, you will find all types of fantasy-dark fantasy, contemporary urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, high 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.
In this issue’s short fiction, Victor Forna takes us on a search for home in “Parebul of the Mother, Asked in Moonlight,” and something allures from beyond in Jennifer R. Donohue’s “Into the Dark”; in flash fiction, Jennifer Hudak gives a taste of preserved magic in “Sturgeon Moon Jam,” and Sam Kyung Yoo draws a daring, imaginative escape in “The End of a Painted World”; for poetry, we have “Luminous” by Timmi Sanni and “What Chimerae Read” by Mary Soon Lee. Plus essay “All the King’s Women: Annie Wilkes is the Mother Goddess of Cocaine” by Big Girl (PM Press) and Number One Fan (Mira) author Meg Elison. Enjoy!
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 151 (December 2022)
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 151 of LIGHTSPEED! Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers: the US Postal Service doesn’t have an official motto, but those words have been an unofficial one since they were engraved in the New York City’s General Post Office Building over a century ago. This month’s first SF short, “Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates,” by L.D. Lewis, shines a hard light on what postal deliveries will be like in the near future. A functional postal service is a critical component of city life, but so is transit. Rich Larson returns to our pages with a story about the future of car usage: “Deathmatch.” Maybe riding the bus isn’t so bad? Our SF flash story is “The Spread of Space and Endless Devastation” from Stewart C. Baker. We also have an SF reprint by Alex Irvine (“Pledge Day”). Our flash fantasy story is “To my daughter, in the dark of the moon” by P H Lee. Rati Mehrotra returns with a new fantasy short story full of ghosts, coffee shops, and skullduggery: “One Day in the Afterlife of Detective Roshni Chaddha.” Aimee Ogden brings us a chilly tale of wolves and prophecy in her new short, “Mad Honey.” Our fantasy reprint is by Nadine Tomlinson (“The Metamorphosis of Marie Martin”). Of course we have spotlight interviews with all our authors, and our book review team has been searching out the best reads to recommend. Plus, our ebook readers will enjoy an excerpt of White Horse by Erika T. Wurth.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 123 (December 2022)
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 123 of NIGHTMARE! Our short stories this month revolve around the home. We kick off the month with a zombie-meets-haunted-house story that will make you want to either deep-clean your house or burn it down: “Break the Skin if You Have To,” by writing trio Emma Osborne, Cadwell Turnbull, and Jess Essey. Mari Ness brings us a sadder story of life indoors in her unsettling tale “Wallers.” Our Horror Lab originals include “Three Symptoms of a Disaster,” a poem of grief and catastrophe from Angela Liu. Chris DiLeo shares his unsettling experiences with the death of loved ones in his micro personal essay “Still Breathing.” As for our nonfiction, Adam-Troy Castro recommends a book and a movie to enjoy while you’re staying close to the fireplace, while Eric Raglin talks about heavy metal that scares in his “The H Word” essay. And of course we have author spotlight interviews with our short fiction writers to help you see what makes them tick. Plus, our ebook readers will also enjoy an excerpt from Erika T. Wurth’s novel, White Horse.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 52
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedTrees live their lives on a different scale, and we poetically imbue them with traits we examine in ourselves. This does not, by any means, imply that they lack these traits. When our story trees talk or move, express feelings, wrestle with immortality, nurture others, or hold the secrets of life, they may not literally do it in the same ways they do in what we perceive as ‘regular life’—the stories just help us to see ourselves a little better, and imagine the ways that they can. And make no mistake, they can.
- from the editorial
This issue features:
The Warrior Tree by Chana Kohl
Shadow and Ash by Sarah McPherson
Lost and Found; Retreat and Return by Emma Schmid
The Beginning by Katrina Carruth
This Sweet and Bitter Fruit; or, Ladon’s Lament by Maeghan Klinker
Hunger by Meg Malone
Break Fresh Ground by Callie S. Blackstone
Linden’s Legends by Suzie Grace
The Mother Tree by Elana Gomel
Live Oak by Carly Racklin
Of Wood and Flame by Anna Madden
The Wee Folk by Keira Reynolds
The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees by Wendy Nikel
Beech, Please by Maria Paige Brekke
The Trimming of the Branches by Ali Miller
End of the World, Beginning of Everything by Kiersten Gonzalez
Quercus by Emma Louise Gill
The Oak Tree by Liz Baxmeyer
Flash Fiction Online Issue #111 December 2022
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2022 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: December 2022” by Anna Yeatts
– “Lost and Found at the Center of the Universe” by Bo Balder
– “It Begins with RAVEN” by Jenn Reese
– “The Last Cold Place” by Alice Towey
– “Rasslab́sia” by Gerri Brightwell
– “Flash Fiction Flashback: Mirror Skinned by Kelly Sandoval”
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 91
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:
“Sulta” by James Bennett
“Belly-Slitter” by H. Pueyo
“Y is for Yesterday” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Cat” by Morana Violeta (translated by Clara Madrigano)
Locus December 2022 (#743)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Julie E. Czerneda and Saad Z. Hossain, and spotlights on artist Geneva Bowers and author Khan Wong. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2023. Stories include the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, the judge’s ruling to block the PRH/S&S merger, HarperCollins strike news, Harry Josephine Giles’s Clarke Award win, Donato Giancola and Wayne Barlowe exhibits, the Asimov’s Reader Awards winners, and more. People and publishing includes news this issue about Stephen Graham Jones, Mercedes Lackey, Tad Williams, Kim Harrison, Naomi Alderman, Ann Leckie, and many others. In this month’s obituaries and appreciations, Tom Maddox, Martin Morse Wooster, Jill Pinkwater, Sue Strong Hassler, Anne Fakhouri, Justin E.A. Busch, Ned Dameron, Aly Parsons, and J.G. “Huck” Huckenpöhler are remembered. Reviews cover new titles by Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Priest, Paul J. McAuley, Sam J. Miller, Wesley Chu, Naomi Novik, Ben Aaronovitch, Alex White, Walter Jon Williams, Justina Ireland, Catherine Yu, Hiroko Oyamada, Chris Flynn, Anil Menon, Leslye Penelope, Moses Ose Utomi, Rita Woods, Lauren Owen, Lisa Yaszek (ed.), Melissa Baron, Matthew Chrulew (ed.), Joan Marie Verba, Ethan Chatagnier, Olivie Blake, J.M. Lee, Umar Turaki, Stephen King, Matt Query & Harrison Query, and others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 195
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 December 2022 issue (#195) contains:
* Original fiction by Naim Kabir (“Law of Tongue”), Bri Castagnozzi (“Keiki’s Pitcher Plant”), Ben Berman Ghan (“The Resting Place of Trees”), S.L. Huang (“Murder by Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness”), Lu Ban (“Upstart”), Vandana Singh (“Left to Die”), Laney Gaughan (“To Exorcise Mechanical Ghosts”), and Alex Sobel (“The Lightness”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Julie Novakova, interviews with Bora Chung & Anton Hur and Lisa Yaszek, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 95
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 December 2022 issue features “Uploading Angela” by Lettie Prell, “Tulip Fever” by Bo Balder, and “Mixology for Humanity’s Sake” by D. A. Xiaolin Spires. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.