The Dark – Issue 44
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Burrowing Machines” by Sara Saab
“Impostor/Impostor” by Ian Muneshwar (reprint)
“Tansy” by Angela Fu
“A Cruelty That Cut Both Ways” by Aimee Ogden (reprint)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – November/December 2018
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 David Gerrold., Ursula K. Le Guin, Terry Bisson 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.
NOVELETS
The Lady of Butterflies – Y.M. Pang
The Iconoclasma – Hanuš Seiner
Every Color of Invisible – Robert Reed
This Constant Narrowing – Geoff Ryman
SHORT STORIES
Thanksgiving – Jeffrey Ford
Extreme – Sean Mcmullen
Overwintering Habits of the North American Mermaid – Abra Staffin-Wiebe
Other People’s Dreams – Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Baron and His Floating Daughter – Nick Dichario
When We Flew Together Through the Ice – J.R. Dawson
The Island And Its Boy – Bo Balder
POEMS
Escaping the Ogre – Ruth Berman
DEPARTMENTS
Books to Look For – Charles de Lint
Books – James Sallis
Science: Space Drives – Jerry Oltion
Films: Strange Invaders – David J. Skal
Competition #96 –
Coming Attractions –
Index To Volumes 134 & 135 –
Curiosities – David Langford
CARTOONS
Nick Downes, Nick Downes, Danny Shanahan.
COVER
Alan M. Clark For “The Iconoclasm”
Uncanny Magazine Issue 26
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January/February 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Fran Wilde, Natalia Theodoridou, Senaa Ahmad, Delilah S. Dawson, Marissa Lingen, and Inda Lauryn. Reprinted fiction by Ellen Kushner, essays by Linda D. Addison, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Alec Nevala-Lee, and Keidra Chaney, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Sonya Taaffe, Hal Y. Zhang, and Jennifer Crow, interviews with Natalia Theodoridou and Marissa Lingen by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine: Issue 36, January 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 36: January 2019
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Elly Bangs, Austin DeMarco, Robert Silverberg, Dan Koboldt, Edward M. Lerner, Jane Yolen, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Thomas K. Carpenter, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, Todd McCaffrey, Joy Kennedy-O’Neill. Christopher Blake, Joe Haldeman
Serialization: Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles Sheffield
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended Books: Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye
Interview: Joy Ward interviews F. Paul Wilson
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 Robert J. Sawyer and Gregory Benford, book recommendations by Bill Fawcett and Jody Lynn Nye and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #64 January 2019
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe January 2019 Issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
A selection of literary short stories from Flash Fiction Online curated by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent.
WHAT DOES ONE PONDER AT THE TURNING OF THE NEW YEAR?
Food, of course. Either the food we will indulge in at our New Year’s feast (the Eve party, AND breakfast, AND the New Year’s Day dinner), or the food we must deny ourselves in order to redeem our waistlines from the gluttony of the multitude of food-centered holidays that consume the last quarter of the Gregorian calendar.
Humor author, Erma Bombeck, once wrote, “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
Yeah. Me, too.
Or, from comedian Kevin James: “There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”
Amen.
And I far too heartily agree with Avengers actress Elizabeth Olsen, who said, “I get way too much happiness from good food.”
We, as human beings, are connected with food in so many more ways than simple sustenance. Food can stimulate all five of our senses. It is at the center of our celebrations. It is comfort, and pleasure, and art. There is an emotional connection we have with food that few other substances or experiences elicit.
My daughter was recently warned by her doctor that she may need to give up grains and dairy. She was despondent in ways that she wouldn’t have been if the doctor had told her she needed to give up video games or those super-soft blankets she loves. She decided she could potentially live without all those things, except butter. Not butter. She needs butter.
All that in mind, what better way to launch our first issue of the year than with a food issue.
This month, we invite you to experience a gamut of emotions—grief, longing, frustration, humor, and one very disturbing peek into codependency–all revolving around our favorite subject—FOOD!
SALT, SPICES, FAT, HONEY BY N. R. M. Roshak
Blackberry Wine by Carrie Johnson
The Truffles of Mars by Jeremy Lichtman
VIET NAM 1968 by Sherry Shahan
And a new writing column by Jason S. Ridler!
Bon Appétit!
Suzanne
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #268
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #268 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Beth Cato and Morgan Al-Moor.
Reckoning 3
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNavigating by heartstrings through fire and flood in pursuit of a future.
“A project that is timely, necessary, and at times even hopeful. Highly recommended to all who are interested in the future of genre fiction as well as the future of our world.” —Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble
Ebook release: December 2018
e-ISBN: 978-0-9989252-4-0
245 pages; 64,000 words.
Contents
Art
Fight or Flight – Stylo Starr
Extinction Gong – Julian Oliver and Crystelle Vu
Extinction Dish – Carrie Reichardt
Cliff Projection – Feral X
Test Prints for #ExtinctionRebellion – #BODYPOLITIC
Nonfiction
Endurance – Thomas Wharton
The Invasion of Yonkers – Mansuda Arora
Letters from Alouette Women’s Correctional Facility – The Reverend Emilie Teresa Smith
Fiction
The Green Man – Teika Marija Smits
Tiger – Joe M McDermott
More Sea Than Tar – Osahon Ize-Iyamu
Flowers for the Living, Flowers for the Dead – Michelle Muenzler
The Mortmain – Sebastian Strange
Fuck You Pay Me – Francis Bass
A Diary from the End of the World – Cécile Cristofari
The Feather Wall – Octavia Cade
The Blackthorn Door – Tania Fordwalker
The Eater of Dirt – Marie Vibbert
Under the Sunset Hill – Soumya Sundar Mukherjee
Exit Here – Andrew Kozma
Vivian, Radiant – Bernadette Marie Oliver
Poetry
How Can I Look Up – Danika Dinsmore
Eruptions – Lynne Sargent
Displaced Water – Seth García
Song of the Suburbs, Kestrel in an Apocalyptic Landscape – Christine Holland Cummings
Paddling in the Sound – Adelia MacWilliam
The World Ended in Ice – Adam Stemple
Corrupt the World with Drum – Alicia Cole
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 36
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedWelcome to Luna Station Quarterly‘s first ever themed issue!
Call her Wise Woman. Call her hag (at your peril). Call her Grandmother or Calliach or Baba Yaga or whatever name the winter hills whisper where you are from. As these thirteen authors show, there are as many manifestations of the Crone archetype as there are places on earth. Each has a voice, and each has a story to tell.
The sun is muted and the days grow shorter. It’s time for quiet, and for inner work. It’s time to meet the Crone.
Apex Magazine Issue 115
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedApex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.
EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief — Jason Sizemore
FICTION
On the Day You Spend Forever with Your Dog — Adam R. Shannon
Girls Who Do Not Drown — A.C. Buchanan
Captain Midrise — Jim Marino
The Man Who Has Been Killing Kittens — Dee Warrick
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Adam R. Shannon — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Ronnie Jensen — Russell Dickerson
The Princess and the Quest — Alethea Kontis
Young, Gifted, and Black: My First Gen Con Experience — Isabella Faidely
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 147
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 (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.
Our December 2018 issue (#147) contains:
* Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires (“Marshmallows”), Alan Bao (“Bringing Down the Sky”), Eleanna Castroianni (“When We Find Our Voices”), Sheldon J. Pacotti (“The Names and Motions”), and Zhang Ran (“Master Zhao: The Tale of an Ordinary Time Traveler”).
* A reprint by Kelly Robson (“Two-Year Man”).
* Non-fiction by Doug Dluzen, an interview with Rich Larson, an Another Word column by Jason Heller, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 47
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 December 2018 issue features a novella by Robert Charles Wilson (“Julian: A Christmas Story”), a short story by Elizabeth Bear (“Two Dreams on Trains”), and a novelette by Maggie Clark (“Belly Up”).
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 75 (December 2018)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedNIGHTMARE is an online 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.
This month, we have original fiction from Adam-Troy Castro (“The Ten Things She Said While Dying (An Annotation)”) and Carrie Vaughn (“The Island of Beasts”), along with reprints by Gemma Files (“Nanny Grey”) and Stephen Graham Jones (“Universal Horror”). Over at “The H Word,” Nicole Sconiers takes a close look at common horror tropes about children. Plus, we have author spotlights with our authors, and a book review from Adam-Troy Castro.
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 103 (December 2018)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedLIGHTSPEED is an online 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.
This month, our cover art comes from Marcel Mercado, illustrating the first story in a new series of fantasy shorts by Ashok K. Banker–“A Love Story Written on Water.” Plus, we have a mouth-watering new short fantasy piece by Shaenon K. Garrity (“Grandma Novak’s Famous Nut Roll”), and fantasy reprints by Adam-Troy Castro (“Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs”) and Karen Lord (“The Counsellor Crow”).
For science fiction, we have original shorts by Lizz Huerta (“Mouths”) and Seanan McGuire (“Under the Sea of Stars”). We’re also featuring SF reprints by Kim Stanley Robinson (“Remaking History”) and Maurice Broaddus (“Vade Retro Satana”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. For our ebook readers, we also have an ebook-exclusive novella reprint–“All the Flavors” by Ken Liu–and an excerpt from Mirah Bolender’s debut novel, City of Broken Magic.
Heart’s Kiss: Issue 12, December 2018-January 2019: Featuring Susan Donovan
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine Celebrating Romance:
Love romance? Love discovering the best new writers with bite-sized stories? Or maybe you prefer to treat yourself by escaping into a sure-to-please favorite author’s world now and again, but don’t have the time to read a full-length novel. Heart’s Kiss magazine offers delicious variety and more.
Each issue has 70,000 plus words of fiction from names readers will recognize, to newly discovered writers, including interviews and articles talking about what romance readers love most—the books they love, why romance is important in today’s world, their love of the genre and what to enjoy next.
Heart’s Kiss is filled with a sweet-spicy-erotic mix of historical, contemporary, paranormal, suspense and futuristic romance stories that will be sure to make you yearn for more.
IN THIS ISSUE:
OPENING EDITORIAL by Lezli Robyn
HEART’S KISS INTERVIEWS SUSAN DONOVAN by Lezli Robyn
A PARTRIDGE IN THE AU PAIR’S TREE by Susan Donovan
SHAPED BY YOU by Debra Jess
SONG OF THE BRAVE by Gracie Wilson
THE LIPSKI PARTNER AXIOM by Tina Gower
CHAPTER FIVE: A COUNTESS FOR CHRISTMAS by Anthea Lawson
YOU READ THAT?: HOLIDAY TROPES AND TRADITIONS by Julie Pitzel
RECOMMENDED BOOKS by C.S. DeAvilla
THE TEMPTRESS PRESENTS: CHOCOLATE GANACHE CAKE (Raw, Vegan & Gluten Free) by Andrea Abedi
A CHANGE IN THE CARPATHIAN SERIES by Christine Feehan
CLOSING EDITORIAL by Tina Smith
The Dark – Issue 43
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:
“Russula’s Wake” by Kay Chronister
“Walking off the Doeskin” by Wenmimareba Klobah Collins
“Telling Stories” by Ruth EJ Booth
“Art” by Alberto Chimal
Flash Fiction Online Issue #63 December 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe December 2018 Issue of Flash Fiction Online. Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
A selection of literary short stories from Flash Fiction Online curated by Editor-in-Chief Suzanne W. Vincent.
As the story goes, a smattering of years over 2000 ago, a young Jew and his wife sought refuge in an inn in the town of Bethlehem–a donkey-back journey of about 4 days south-southwest from Jerusalem. Instead, they found a place in a stable.
Many stories have been written–mostly fictional–of exactly what went down that night. But we do know that out of this story came a man who, from that day to this, has been both worshipped and villified, studied and parodied.
Assuming the historical record is at least somewhat correct, what we know about this man is that his life was one of refuge sought, refuge offered, refuge lost.
As a child he was taken even further from home–to Egypt–where his parents sought refuge from an edict that would have taken the boy’s life. His teachings offered spiritual refuge from the troubles of a broken and frightening world. In the end, any refuge he might have taken he refused–he gave himself up to authorities who, ultimately, put him to death. In the very act of dying, he secured a refuge for his mother, beseeching one of his friends to take care of her after he was gone. His ardent followers believe that his life, his teachings, and his death, have provided a way by which we might seek refuge from death itself.
This month, Christians the world over remember his birth in that stable a smattering over 2000 years ago. And now, as then, people seek refuge anywhere they can find it.
A friend of mine once told me that even the most broken and downtrodden people–even the most hateful and unlovable–in our lives are doing what we are all doing–seeking a refuge in some kind of happiness. The trouble is that some of us seek happiness in things, ideas, or habits that eventually bring only emptiness or misery. The spiteful old woman in the apartment across the way may be achieving that through her sense of self-superiority over others. The guy sleeping in a cardboard box in the alley may have once thought he could find it in a needleful of heroine.
Do any of us know where we can find the refuge of true happiness?
Psychologist and lecturer, Tara Brach, wrote: “True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are.”
This month’s stories are about people seeking refuge in different ways. Some find it, some don’t. Some have help along the way, some must find their own path. All face obstacles, because without obstacles we wouldn’t need refuge. Nor would we have much of a story, because that’s what stories are–characters facing obstacles and sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing, always getting under our skin and into our hearts.
Like young Pigeon, whose older sister wanders, and who looks for solace in her makeup and her hand holding his. Na, who finds refuge in music as her son and husband come to blows in front of her. Mrs. O’Reilly, who, in the wake of unspeakable tragedy, looks for peace in thoughts of what might have been. And, finally, a refugee of a different sort, but whose experience speaks for all refugees everywhere.
”Goodnight, Pigeon” by Angie Ellis
”Bike” by Elliott Thornton
”M&M” by Douglas W. Milliken
”Across the Hard-Packed Sand” by Holly Schofield
And a new writing column by Jason S. Ridler!
We hope you enjoy, and that you find peace and happiness this season and always.
Suzanne