Apex Magazine Issue 127
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedStrange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.
APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.
We publish every other month.
Issue 127 contains the following:
EDITORIAL
Musings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley Conner
ORIGINAL FICTION
To Seek Himself Again by Marie Croke
This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief by Izzy Wasserstein
In Haskins by Carson Winter
Whose Mortal Taste by Erin K. Wagner
Hank in the South Dakota Sun by Stephanie Kraner
I Call Upon the Night as Witness by Zahra Mukhi
CLASSIC FICTION
Dogwood Stories by Nicole Givens Kurtz
Thresher of Men by Michael Boatman
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Author Marie Croke by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Author Erin K. Wagner by Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Magdalena Pagowska by Russ Dickerson
NONFICTION
Accost Me, SFF, and Waste My Time by Carlos Hernandez
The of Death of Captain Kirk: Why the Illusory Singularity of the White Hero Must Die by Gerald L. Coleman
REVIEWS
Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise
How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Erica L. Satifka)
The Necessity of Stars (E. Catherine Tobler)
Whitesands (Johann Thorsson)
The Martial Art of Writing and Other Essays (Alan Baxter)
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 73 (November 2021)
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.
Welcome to issue seventy-one of FANTASY MAGAZINE! This month we have short fiction by Kehkashan Khalid (“The Petticoat Government”) and Genevieve Mills (“Girls Have Sharp Teeth”); flash fiction by Billie Cohen (“Lessons”) and Charles EP Murphy (“Shouty Lads”); poetry by Eugen Bacon (“Unfinished”) and Jessica Cho (“After the End”); and a feature interview with Charlie Jane Anders.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 138 (November 2021)
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 138 of LIGHTSPEED! Many of us who grew up in the ’80s spent way too many hours and far too many quarters in our local arcades. But you don’t have to be a Gen Xer or even a video gamer to love “I Was a Teenage Space Jockey,” a heart-wrenching new story from award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. Our other original fantasy short story is “Ten Scenes from A Typical Day in the Life of the All-Powerful Despot” by Adam-Troy Castro, if you ever wondered what the world would look like if the ultimate bad guy won. Izzy Wasserstein brings us our flash fantasy piece, “To Reach the Gate, She Must Leave Everything Behind.” We’re also reprinting Lisa M. Bradley’s “Men in Cars.” Our first original SF short takes us on a wild ride across the universes in Elly Bangs’ “Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias.” Timi Odueso takes us to a world without rain in his new story “Cloudgazer.” Our flash story is “Stowaways” by Andrew Dana Hudson, and we have an SF reprint by Charlie Jane Anders (“The Turnaround”). In nonfiction, we’ve got author spotlight interviews with our writers, and of course, our team of crack reviewers brings us a selection of book reviews. Our ebook readers will enjoy an excerpt from Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s latest collaboration, DUNE: THE LADY OF CALADAN.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 110 (November 2021)
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 110 of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Adam-Troy Castro (“Glimpses in Amber”) and Julianna Baggott (“Inkmorphia”). Our Horror Lab originals include a poem (“Crossroads”) from Tiffany Morris and a flash story (“Murder Tongue”) from Jayaprakash Satyamurthy. 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 horror scholars Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #98 November 2021
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2021 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: Facing Mortality” by Wendy Nikel
– “The Dog Who Buried the Sea” by Andy Oldfield
– “The Days Were Long on Europa” by Kyle Richardson
– “A Time There Was” by Hastings Kidd
– “A Mother’s Love” by Deborah L. Davitt
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.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 53, November 2021
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 53: November 2021
Lezli Robyn, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by Z.T. Bright, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Mike Resnick Alex Shvartsman, Tami Veldura, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Fulvio Gatti, Dave Wolverton, Dhew
Jean Marie Ward Interviews Charlaine Harris
Serialization: Over the Wine Dark Sea by Harry Turtledove
Columns by: Gregory Benford, L. Penelope
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 and Gregory Benford, and book recommendations by Richard Chwydyk.
The Dark – Issue 78
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 four all-new stories:
“We’re Always the Ones Who Leave” by H. Pueyo
“The Thing With Chains” by Rob Costello
“The Catcher in the Eye” by Ai Jiang
“Dance, Macabre” by Phoenix Alexander
Locus November 2021 (#730)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe November 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Chuck Wendig and Betsy Wollheim and a spotlight on Tehani Farr, artist. News includes the British Fantasy, Sturgeon, Clarke, and Aurora awards winners and the National Book Awards finalists. Data file covers the new Le Guin prize for fiction, the Mythopoeic Awards winners, 2021 MacArthur Fellowships, and much more. People & Publishing includes Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about John Williams, Ursula Vernon, Kelly Link, Gabino Iglesias, Tim Pratt, Mercedes Lackey, and many othersFIYAHCON and ICon are covered with full reports and photos. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “The Unimaginable”. Obituaries remember Mary Kay Kare, Gary Paulsen, Lou Antonelli, Douglas Barbour, and Otacílio Costa D’Assunção Barros. Reviews cover new titles by Nnedi Okorafor, Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Liselle Sambury, Jenny Elder Moke, Chandra Prasad, Jordan Ifueko, Jessica Lewis, Adam Soto, Nick Mamatas, David Liss, Hiromi Kawakami, Cassandra Khaw, Joe R. Lansdale, C. Dale Brittain, Sarah Beth Durst, Walter Goodwater, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kevin Hearne, Naomi Novik, Christine Riccio, F. Paul Wilson, Fonda Lee, Okezie Nw_ka, Alastair Reynolds, Saad Z. Hossain, Freya Marske, Ryka Aoki, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and more.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 182
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 November 2021 issue (#182) contains:
* Original fiction by Will McIntosh (“Mom Heart”), Alice Towey (“Dark Waters Still Flow”), Anna Martino (“This Stitch, This Time”), Pan Haitian (“City of Eternity”), Rebecca Campbell (“The Language Birds Speak”), Shari Paul (“Between Zero and One There is Infinity”), and L Chan (“The Death Haiku Of The Azure Five”).
* Non-fiction includes an article by Douglas F. Dluzen and interviews with Xueting Christine Ni and Charlie Jane Anders, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 82
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedForever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke.
Our November 2021 issue features “Books of the Risen Sea” by Suzanne Palmer, “The Three Lives of Sonata James” by Lettie Prell, and “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” by Vandana Singh.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2021
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers:
compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock and many others;
the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films and Science;
humor from our cartoonists and writers.
For more information and to sample some of our articles, Please visit our web site.
NOVELLAS
Mad Milk Natalia Theodoridou
NOVELETS
Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story Nalo Hopkinson
A Vast Silence T. R. Napper
Castellia Graham Edwards
Laki Eleanor Arnason
SHORT STORIES
A Dime Megan Lindholm
What Makes You Forget Victor Pseftakis
The Reckoning Alexander Glass
Lajos and his Bees K. A. Teryna
The Black Dog Gone Gray Hayley Stone
A Demon’s Christmas Carol Jennie Goloboy
POEMS
How to Hear the Stars Mary Soon Lee
How to Count Astronomically Mary Soon Lee
Ways of the Multiverse Vincent Miskell
DEPARTMENTS
Editorial: Gathering Light Sheree Renée Thomas
Books To Look For Charles de Lint
Books James Sallis
Films: Worth the Wait? David J. Skal
Science: Telescopes in Fact and Fiction Jerry Oltion
Competition #102
Curiosities Paul Di Filippo
Coming Attractions
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 44
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedDecember 22, 2022
Who is ready for the fourty-eleventh issue of LCRW? It has stories, poems, a cooking column.
Cometh the hour
cometh the zine
but wait
it is written
that a zine
must sometimes be delay’d
fiction
ArLynn Leiber Presser, “Napier’s Constant”
James Blakey, “The Last Mission”
Kate Francia, “A Minor Demon in Adams B-12”
Jen Sexton-Riley, “All I’ve Ever Learned from Love”
Laurie McCrae, “A Kindling”
Richard Butner, “Holderhaven”
James Moran, “A Story Isn’t a Story Until it’s Heard by Someone Else”
poetry
Brady Rhoades, Three Poems
Ben Corvo, The Slipper Ships
nonfiction
Raymond J. Barry, “I Had a Meeting Then with My Agents”
Nicole Kimberling, “Hot & Cold: Meatballs & Mash”
cover
Ashley Wong, “Mother Cat”
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 44, December 2021. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732033. 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.com/smallbeerpress · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $24/4 issues. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2021 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration © 2021 Ashley Wong. Thank you authors, artists, and readers. Celebrating! Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria appearing on NPR’s 50 Favorite SF&F Books of the Past Decade; Kim Scott’s Taboo receiving a Kate Challis Ruth Adeney Koori Award (RAKA) commendation; and Vandana Singh being selected as a Climate Imagination Fellows by ASU’s Center for Science. Petra Mayer, RIP. Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above.
About the Authors
Raymond J. Barry’s career began during the sixties and seventies when he became a member of three of New York City’s major, avant-garde theater companies: the Living Theater, the Open Theater, and the Wooster Group. He also performed in numerous productions both Off Broadway and Broadway, including two dozen productions at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater. After twenty-three years of New York theater, he embarked upon his film career, performing approximately fifty major films and dozens of television roles, including Michael Cimino’s Year of the Dragon; Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July; Neil Burger’s Interview with the Assassin; Falling Down; Flubber, and, of course Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, directed by Jake Kasden, among many others. He also played roles in dozens of television series, highlighted by his six-season role as Arlo on the FX Series, Justified. He is the author of a memoir, Never a Viable Alternative, and a volume of plays, Mother’s Son and Other Plays, and his paintings can be viewed on his website, raymondjbarry.org.
James Blakey lives in the Shenandoah Valley where he writes mostly full-time. His story “The Bicycle Thief” won a Derringer Award. When James isn’t writing, he can be found on the hiking trail—he’s climbed forty of the fifty US state high points—or bike-camping his way up and down the East Coast. Find him at JamesBlakeyWrites.com.
Richard Butner’s story “Holderhaven” was first published in Crimewave and was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. His first collection, The Adventurists: Stories will be published in early 2022. He has written for and performed with the Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Aggregate Theatre, Bare Theatre, the Nickel Shakespeare Girls, and Urban Garden Performing Arts. His nonfiction, on topics ranging from computers to cocktails to architecture, has appeared in IBM Think Research, Wired, PC Magazine, The News & Observer, Triangle Alternative, and Southern Lifestyle. He lives in North Carolina, where he runs the annual Sycamore Hill Writers’ Conference. He and Harry Houdini have used the same trapdoor.
Kate Francia is a writer in the New York area. Her stories have appeared in Electric Lit, Fireside Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in Speculative Fiction. You can find her at katefrancia.com.
Nicole Kimberling has only just now started cooking dinner for guests again after almost two years without offering anyone except her wife a plate of food. She’s barely able to contain her excitement about it long enough to function in her day job as editor of Blind Eye Books. She also written several novels and even an audio drama podcast called “Lauren Proves Magic is Real!” which, like her column in this zine, is also about food and cooking—just on the supernatural level.
Too restless for his own good, Laurie McCrae is a Canadian immigrant to Scotland by way of England and Ireland. He lives by the sea with his partner and their young son.
James Moran is a professional astrologer and author who regularly publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry. His published work can be found at jamesmoran.org and he can be found on instagram @astrologyjames.
ArLynn Leiber Presser comes from a long line of writers, including notable science fiction and fantasy writer Fritz Leiber who devised the first modern Dungeons & Dragons game. She is the author of thirty-seven books, almost all romances. The most recent is This One Last Palmer’s Kiss which combines elements of true love, phlebotomy, guns, and otherworldly murderous intentions.
Brady Rhoades’ work has appeared in Best New Poets 2008, Antioch Review, Faultline, Georgetown Review, Notre Dame Review, William & Mary Review, and other publications. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times. Rhoades is a journalist who works and lives in Fullerton, California.
Jen Sexton-Riley’s short fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, on Cape Noir Radio Theater, and elsewhere. She is a 2018 graduate of the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop, and she writes a monthly comedy/horror advice column, Dear Agony, for the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. She can be found at jensextonriley.com, on Twitter @sextonfleur, and on Instagram @jensextonriley.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #342
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #342 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Louis Duckworth and Denzel Xavier Scott.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #341
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #341 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Chris Willrich and Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko.
Weird Horror 3
Tags: No Author Royalties Collected Welcome 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!Underland Arcana 4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedUnderland Arcana slips through the cracks, bringing with it the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. This issue contains stories about preserving planets, stories about seeking solace, stories about course catalogs, stories about strange circumstances, and stories that un- fold on the periphery of consciousness. These are the stories that we shall find in the piles of dead leaves that the wind gathers as the year comes to an end.
Here are stories from Brandon Crilly, Manfred Gabriel, Christi Nogle, Catherine Hansen, Ro Smith, Vera Hadzic, Jetse de Vries, A. P. Howell, Forrest Aguirre, Lorraine Schein, and Sarah Day.