See the Elephant, Issue 4, Beyond Death
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedUnder an authoritarian regime, artists are blinded and women’s faces are surgically altered into bone-flowers. Aliens arrive on earth and become obsessed with poignant, tragic humans—the only species in the universe that dies. A Hindu watches his own cremation. A man seeks answers from his estranged family after he finds himself dying and resurrecting, over and over. A bereaved parent gives tips for opening a childcare center for the unliving. A scientist falls in love with the ebola virus he’s studying … and more!
From realistic to fantastic, from dark to whimsical, these twelve, genre-defying short stories explore what might lie beyond the death of a culture, a parent, a child, or the self—and what might happen if death itself were thwarted.
Original stories by Vajra Chandrasekera, Dennis Danvers, Maria Haskins, Pedro Iniguez, Benjamin C. Jenkins, Marc Lecard, Tonya Liburd, B.T. Lowry, Darja Malcolm-Clarke, Dimitra Nikolaidou, Steven C. Schlozman, and Robert E. Stutts, with a foreword by the editor.
See the Elephant Magazine is a semi-pro e-zine, launched in 2015. It publishes stories that emerge from the spaces between genre and literary fiction, between the personal and political, between consensus reality and the metaphysical, mythic, and visionary. We actively seek work by women, people of color, indigenous, LGBTQ, and international writers.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #262, Tenth Anniversary Month Double-Issue II
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #262, the second double-issue for the Tenth Anniversary Month of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Gregory Norman Bossert, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Jaymee Goh, and Grace Seybold.
Apex Magazine Issue 113
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
Bargains by the Slant-Light — Cassandra Khaw
The Standard of Ur — Hassan Abdulrazzak
With Lips Sewn Shut — Kristi DeMeester
For Sale: Fantasy Coffins — Chesya Burke
NONFICTION
Interview with Cassandra Khaw — Andrea Johnson
Interview with Cover Artist Vinz El Tabanas — Russell Dickerson
Someone Else’s Sandbox — Tim Waggoner
COLUMNS
Between the Lines with Laura Zats and Erik Hane
Page Advice with Mallory O’Meara and Brea Grant
The Dark – Issue 41
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:
“Dukkering” by Nelson Stanley
“The Fold in the Heart” by Chaz Brenchley (reprint)
“Psychopomps of Central London” by Julia August
“Erasing Tony” by Michael Harris Cohen (reprint)
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 101 (October 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 is by Reiko Murakami, illustrating new science fiction from Dale Bailey (“The Horror of Party Beach”). We also have new SF from Molly Tanzer (“The Real YouTM”), along with SF reprints by Adrienne Celt (“Big Boss Bitch”) and Jack Skillingstead (“Tribute”).
Our original fantasy shorts are by Cameron Van Sant (“Super-Luminous Spiral”) and Mel Kassel (“Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake”). We also have fantasy reprints by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (“Kaleidoscope”) and Alex Irvine (“The Dream Curator”).
All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns. We also have a feature interview with author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Our e-book exclusive novella reprint is “Investments” by Walter Jon Williams. Ebook readers can also enjoy an extract from Dale Bailey’s new novel IN THE NIGHT WOOD.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 73 (October 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 Joanna Parypinski (“The Inheritance”) and Halli Villegas (“A Mother’s Love Never Ends”), along with reprints by Micah Dean Hicks (“Ghost Jeep”) and John Langan (“The Underground Economy”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” Karin Lowachee meditates on the psychological draws of watching horror movies. We also have our usual author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with author and editor Amber Fallon.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 145
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 October 2018 issue (#145) contains:
* Original Finbarr O’Reilly (“The Miracle Lambs of Minane”), Yilin Wang (“Sparrow”), Simone Heller (“When We Were Starless”), Anna Wu (“The Facecrafter”), Suzanne Palmer (“Thirty-Three Percent Joe”).
* Reprints by Aliette de Bodard (“In Everlasting Wisdom”) and Ian McDonald (“The Falls: A Luna Story”).
* Non-fiction by Julie Novakova, an interview with Steven Erikson, an Another Word column by Sarah Pinsker, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Heart’s Kiss: Issue 11, October-November 2018: Featuring Brenda Jackson
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 Tina Smith
HEART’S KISS INTERVIEWS BRENDA JACKSON by Lezli Robyn
AT LONG LAST (excerpt) by Brenda Jackson
FAR HORIZONS by Juliet Marillier
THE FORBIDDEN KISS OF LIFE (A Disorderly Elements Short Story) by Olivette Devaux
FROM A DRY, BITTER STREAM COMES THE SWEETEST OF FOUNTAINS by D. H. Hendrickson
ST. JEAN AND THE WISH (A Jane and Jinn Mystery) by Brenda Carre
THE HEART FINDS THE WAY by Rei Rosenquist
BEAUTIFULLY IMAGINED (The Beautifully Series) by Gracie Wilson
WEDDING NIGHT (poem) by Julie Pitzel
YOU READ THAT?: EVOLUTION OF THE HERO (column) by Julie Pitzel
HOW DIFFERENT VOICES ARE CHANGING THE YA ROMANCE LANDSCAPE by Karen McCoy
RECOMMENDED BOOKS by C.S. DeAvilla
THE TEMPTRESS PRESENTS: FAMOUS CAULIFLOWER MAC & CHEESE (Vegan & Gluten Free) by Andrea Abedi
HEART’S KISS’ FIRST RENDEZVOUS WITH THE ROMANCE WRITERS OF AMERICA CONFERENCE by Lezli Robyn
Locus October 2018 (#693)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 2018 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with N.K. Jemisin and Kate Elliott. Worldcon 76 in San Jose is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo and Retro Hugo voting breakdowns, and a WSFS business meeting report. Stories include the closure of Space and Time magazine, Hard Brexit’s threat to Ingram and EU-based POD publishers, Dragon Con 2018, and the 1000 Years of Fandom project run by FANAC.org.
Awards news covers the Dragon Awards, Dwarf Stars Award, The New Academy Prize shortlist, and more. Kameron Hurley’s column is entitled “Building the Story of Ourselves.” K.C. Ball and Roger Lee Vernon are remembered with obituaries, and SFWA Grandmaster Poul Anderson & Karen Kruse Anderson are remembered with a photo story covering the sea burial of their ashes by family and friends.
Reviews cover new titles by Kim Stanley Robinson, Alec Nevala-Lee, Tade Thompson, Lisa Yaszek (ed.), Justina Robson, Jaine Fenn, Corey J. White, Cynthia Ward, Carrie Vaughn, Emma Newman, Kameron Hurley, Drew Williams, L. Timmel Duchamp, Akwaeke Emezi, Yoko Tawada, Tianxia Bachang, Ilona Andrews, Seanan McGuire, B. Catling, Priya Sharma, and many others including art books, audiobooks, and short fiction.
Flash Fiction Online Issue #61 October 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe October 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.
CLEOPATRA (YES, THAT CLEOPATRA), is quoted as saying, “All strange and terrible things are welcome, but comforts we despise.”
When it comes to life in general, I’m not sure I can agree with her. I like comfortable. I like easy. I prefer not to have terrible things happen.
I have to admit, however, that I tend to lean toward the strange. My little world is filled with oddities.
For example, in my herb garden I have an unusual plant called Egyptian or Walking Onion.
It’s an actual onion, but not terribly useful as an onion. It costs more time than it’s worth to harvest and peel the actual onion bulbs from it, though I do use the greens like scallions.
The plant grows narrow leaves and large 3-foot-tall stalks. It’s at the top of these stalks that the onions form, something like a head of garlic with 10 to 20 tiny onions all clumped together. Each of these tiny onions puts out a small leaf and flower stalk of its own. It’s called a Walking Onion because as the thick stalk dries and grows top-heavy from the bulb of tiny onions at its top, it bends and topples over, leaving the bulb of onions in contact with the ground. Left to its own devices, that onion bulb will root into the soil, and a new plant will grow, repeating the process, propagating new plants farther and farther away from the mother plant.
I’ve also grown fuzzy tomatoes, striped beets, kohlrabi, dragon-tongue beans, and dozens of other things most people either haven’t heard of or didn’t know you could grow in a home garden.
But I don’t think Cleopatra is talking about life in general, or about gardening.
I think she’s talking about fiction. We love the strange and terrible in the stories we read, watch, and listen to. This explains the popularity of Stephen King, campfire stories, comic books, Stranger Things, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek (“… strange new worlds…”).
We read a lot of strange stories at Flash Fiction Online. This month we have four of the strangest.
Apes companions and angsty superheroes and aliens obsessed with the number three and a woman who wants to be buried alive.
From Dafydd McKimm, “I Will You Back to Time and Space”
From Stewart C Baker, “Words I’ve Redefined Since Your Dinosaur Invaded My Lunar Lair”
From Lauren Ferebee, “What I Understand Now”
From Carrie Cadwallader, “Three is a Sacred Number”
And a new writing article from Jason S. Ridler!
We hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
Enjoy!
Forever Magazine Issue 45
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 October 2018 issue features a novella by Pat Cadigan (“Crimes and Glory”), a novelette by Eleanor Arnason (“Nothing Personal”), and a short story by Ian Creasey (“Erosion”).
Black Static #65
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue contains new cutting edge horror fiction by Ian Muneshwar, Timothy Mudie, E. Catherine Tobler, Carole Johnstone & Chris Kelso, Kailee Pedersen, Matt Thompson, and Cody Goodfellow. The cover art is ‘Dream On’ by Joachim Luetke, and interior illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Joachim Luetke, Vincent Sammy, Dave Senecal, and Warwick Fraser-Coombe. Regular features: Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore; Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker; Case Notes book reviews by Nina Allan (includes interview with Catriona Ward), Georgina Bruce (includes interview with Carly Holmes), Mike O’Driscoll, Laura Mauro, Daniel Carpenter, and David Surface; Blood Spectrum film reviews by Gary Couzens.
Mithila Review – Issue 10
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedMithila Review is an international science fiction and fantasy journal founded in 2015. We publish literary speculative fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, articles, art, etc. from around the world.
Issue 10 of Mithila Review contains:
EDITORIAL
Ajapa Sharma — Editorial
FICTION
Alexandra Seidel — Tigerflies or The City of the Night
Rahad Abir — I, Lilli Man
Dennis Mombauer — The Glass-Toothed Wolf
Indrapramit Das — Sita’s Descent
Sarah M. Prindle — A Time Called L’apatia
Damien Krsteski — Crisis
Bhushita Vasistha — Lopamudra’s Wedding
Rajendra Shepherd — Dessert Heads
POETRY
F.J. Bergmann — New Spring
Lawdenmarc Decamora — Shoegaze + Suburbia
Alexandria Baisden — Life and Death on the Rocks
Yuan Changming — YUAN: the Origin of a Family Name
D.A. Xiaolin Spires — nakajiru
Sarah Ang — Ocean’s Child
Julie Novakova — The world is a stage, and the script must change
REVIEWS
Isha Karki — All the Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma
Sami Ahmad Khan — Goddess Sita Mutates Indian Mythology into Science Fiction: How Three Stories from Breaking the Bow Reinterpret the Ramayana
Jerry Jose — The Carpet Makers by Andreas Eschbach
ARTICLES
Sohail Inayatullah & Ivana Milojevich — Futures Dreaming
Joe Quirk & Patri Friedman — Seasteading: This Isn’t Planet Earth
Interzone #277
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe September–October contains new cutting edge science fiction and fantasy by Gregor Hartmann, Shauna O’Meara, Joanna Berry, Aliya Whiteley, and Samantha Murray. The cover art is by Vince Haig, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner, Ben Baldwin, and Vincent Sammy.
Features: Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews); Andy Hedgecock’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment); guest editorial by Aliya Whiteley.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #260
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #260 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and Maria Haskins.
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 35
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedStories matter. No matter the season. They are windows. They are mirrors. They are elemental.
At Luna Station Quarterly, we publish stories that you might not be seeing elsewhere. Unique permutations on science fiction & fantasy, mythology & folk tale, all written by emerging women writers.
Sweet stories. Sad stories. Queer stories. Family stories. Magical stories. Adventure stories. Imaginary friends. Robots. Pirates. Ghouls and golems and even a goddamned stagecoach! Issue 35 of LSQ has it all!