Nightmare Magazine, Issue 69 (June 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 Nibedita Sen (“Leviathan Sings to Me in the Deep”) and Adam-Troy Castro (“Red Rain”), along with reprints by Seth Fried (“Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre”) and Priya Sharma (“The Anatomist’s Mnemonic”). Lucy Taylor discusses body horror in the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word.” Plus we have author spotlights with our authors, and a review of box office monster THE QUIET PLACE.
Heart’s Kiss Magazine: Issue 9, June 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedA Magazine Celebrating Romance: Issue 9: June 2018
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.
Space and Time Magazine Issue #131
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2018 issue of Space and Time Magazine.
This issue features fiction by Justin Short (“The Shivaree Man”) and Christina Sng (“Red”), a convention review of ReGeneration Who by Hildy Silverman, poetry by Adele Gardner and G.O. Clark, and more!
Flash Fiction Online Issue #57 June 2018
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2018 Issue of Flash Fiction Online Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Of Dads and Randomness
Father’s Day is coming up in the United States. This month we feature a wistful story (“Five Times I Have Slept at Your Bedside” by Jared Adams) of a father who emulates this quote from William Shakespeare:
“It is a wise father who knows his own child.”
I sat and pondered on that quote for a while. I found a great deal of depth and layered meaning there.
I considered my own father and the relationship I have with him. My husband and the relationship he has with our children. My father-in-law, too. (I can’t consider my son. He hasn’t bothered to make me a grandmother yet.)
Shakespeare doesn’t say a happy father, or a fulfilled father. He says a wise father. He doesn’t say loves or appreciates. He says knows.
How does a father know his child? It’s more than simply love. It’s being there. It’s watching a child move through the phases of life with wonder, with awe, with hope and joy and expectation. It’s being caught by surprise when you seem to have blinked and the years have passed and the child is grown and waving goodbye, but realizing that the time has passed so swiftly not because you have missed the sweet moments of fatherhood, but because you have lived them and loved them and become a better person because of them.
Now that, my friends, is wisdom.
Happy Father’s Day to every man who has been there for a child.
The rest of this month’s stories are, well, kind of random, but I’m sure you’ll love them, too! I did.
Like Sarah Beaudette’s beautiful sci-fi story, “The Strawberry Queen of Irapuato.”
Or another strong sci-fi adventure, “Place Your Bets,” by David Whitaker.
Also this month, our feature Reprint, with Irish harp (I love Irish harp), “Songs in the Key of Chamomile,” by FFO alum, Rebecca Birch.
Plus another writing advice column from Jason S. Ridler!
Enjoy!
Suzanne Vincent
Editor-in-Chief
Flash Fiction Online
Luna Station Quarterly – Issue 34
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedElegy and promise stand side by side in this, the thirty fourth issue of your favorite Quarterly. Eight talented authors once again give you glimpses of worlds both familiar and alien, moving backwards and forwards in time and space, from Louisiana & Chicago, to a dusty settlement and abandoned house that bring new flavors to our tired notions of the apocalypse. The women and girls in these stories, like the authors that created them, are balancing old and new, grudges and hope, life and death. May we all learn from their journeys, their wisdom, and their folly.
The Dark – Issue 37
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedEach month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same” by A.C. Wise
“Beehive Heart” by Angela Rega (reprint)
“The Hurrah (aka Corpse Scene)” by Orrin Grey
“The Crow Palace” by Priya Sharma (reprint)
Locus June 2018 (#689)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe June 2018 issue of Locus has interviews with Jeffrey Ford and Theodora Goss. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2019. Awards season news covers the results for the 2018 Nebula Awards, Asimov’s Readers’ awards, Analog AnLab awards, and Spectrum 25. There are finalists and shortlists from Chesley, Clarke, Gemmell, and Shirley Jackson awards. The Data File covers the opening of the Hugo Awards voting, the Le Guin tribute from Literary Arts, Amazing Stories returns to print, and much more. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “On Patience, Goal-Setting, and Gardening”. Obituaries and appreciations remember Susan Ann Protter and William O’Connor.
Reviews cover new titles by Theodora Goss, Hannu Rajaniemi, Peter Watts, Matt Haig, Rebecca Roanhorse, S.M. Stirling, JY Yang, Yoon Ha Lee, Peter Watts, Barry N. Malzberg, Claire O’Dell, John Scalzi, Mary Robinette Kowal, Catherynne M. Valente, Stephen King, Alma Katsu, Francesco Dimitri, Naomi Novik, Nick Harkaway, Ahmed Saadawi, and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 141
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 May 2018 issue (#141) contains:
* Original fiction by Bo Balder (“A Vastness”), Chelsea Muzar (“Not Now”), Sally Gwylan (“Fleeing Oslyge”), and A Que (“Farewell, Doraemon”).
* Reprints by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (“Cold Comfort”) and Michael F. Flynn (“In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole, an interview with Hannu Rajaniemi, an Another Word column by Regina Kanyu Wang, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 41
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 June 2018 issue features a novella by Vandana Singh (“Entanglement”), a novelette by Chris Willrich (“Sails the Mourne”), and a novelette by Suzanne Palmer (“Hotel”).
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction – Issue 10
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe Spring 2018 issue of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
This final double-sized issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea and Vietnam.
Inside these pages, you’ll find: sightings of a strange astronaut in an infinite library by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo, illustrated by Eisner winner Sonny Liew; the meeting between weretigers and Sang Nila Utama by Manish Melwani; the enlightenment of a politician’s wife by Cyril Wong; a Pygmalion-esque tragic romance by comic artist Drewscape; weaponised merlions in WWII-era Singapore by Kevin Martens Wong; an unexpected offer of omniscient immortality by Eliza Victoria; gods and mango tree spirits united in song by Vida Cruz; post-apocalyptic satay cookery in Marina Bay Sands by Wayne Rée; domestic strife and changeling tigers by Natalie Wang; the magic of folding origami cranes by Topaz Winters; a panadería that guarantees pregnancy by Gabriela Lee; surrogate speaking to the dead by Patricia Karunungan; a dating app for interdimensional monstrosities by Marylyn Tan & Graeme Ford; and speculative poetry by Kevin Minh Allen, Davian Aw, F. Jordan Carnice, Genevieve DeGuzman, May Chong, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Joses Ho, Judith Huang, Sithuraj Ponraj, Bronwyn Sharman, Lakan Umali and Natalie Wang.
Also included is a special supplement: the exciting conclusion of Dean Francis Alfar’s brilliant novel Salamanca, winner of the Palanca Award Grand Prize for the Novel and the Gintong Aklat Award for Literature.
LONTAR is the world’s only biannual literary journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #253
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #253 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by P. Djèlí Clark and Blaine Vitallo.
Black Static #63
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May-June issue contains new horror fiction by Steven J. Dines (novella), Kristi DeMeester, J.S. Breukelaar, Matt Thompson, and Nicholas Kaufmann. The cover art is by Richard Wagner, and interior illustrations are by Ben Baldwin, Vincent Sammy, and Richard Wagner. Regular features include Into the Woods by Ralph Robert Moore, Notes from the Borderland by Lynda E. Rucker, Case Notes by Peter Tennant (book reviews, including an in-depth interview with Priya Sharma), Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (film reviews).
Shimmer Magazine – Issue 43
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis issue of Shimmer is a little in need of remembering that awful things may be overcome, one way or another. Winter passes once more into spring, the light eclipses the shadow, the ring melts into goo, and the horrors ease backward, away from all we love.
Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
The silk threads of grief and time snap and spin away from the black looms, but all Freia wants to do is go back to Vienna. Dozens of women work the looms in the magnanery. Hands fly as the threads spin out of the boiling cocoons. Freia doesn’t work on the looms though. She’s not patient enough. Instead she sets the strands of damp, slightly sticky silk from the cocoons, hooking them to the spindle to unravel them, as the objects inside the cocoons die from the scorching water.
Gone to Earth, by Octavia Cade
His body was racked with chill and he hunched in his bed, trying to breathe with the rhythm of tides, to slow his heart to growing things. Yet even the warm night air of the Coromandel summer, straight from the coast and rustling through rÄtÄ trees, couldn’t dispel the cold. The nightmares still came regularly, suffocating waves of homesick regret. Strange that they hadn’t passed now that he was home again and anchored to the world of the living, and even stranger that they came from an adventure marking him a hero. He’d even felt heroic at the beginning, but all the bravery of heroism had come from ignorance, the assumption of a strength not yet tested because the testing was unimaginable.
What the Skeleton Detective Tells You (while you picnic),
by Katherine Kendig
There are old skeletons, brittle-looking, skulls bleached by the sun and moss halfway up their shins. There are new skeletons with dark stains on their bones, like sycamores just shedding their bark. Real trees, too: big spreading elms, shady maples. Paths crispy with fallen leaves that look, at first glance, like withered skin. Soft shadows and a few nice places to picnic.
You, In Flux, by Alexis A. Hunter
Something happened to you after you had the baby.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 140
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 May 2018 issue (#140) contains:
* Original fiction by Bo Balder (“A Vastness”), Chelsea Muzar (“Not Now”), Sally Gwylan (“Fleeing Oslyge”), and A Que (“Farewell, Doraemon”).
* Reprints by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty (“Cold Comfort”) and Michael F. Flynn (“In Panic Town, on the Backward Moon”).
* Non-fiction by Mark Cole, an interview with Hannu Rajaniemi, an Another Word column by Regina Kanyu Wang, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 40
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 May 2018 issue features a novella by Mary Robinette Kowal (“Kiss Me Twice”), a short story by Andrea M. Pawley (“A Singular Event in the Fourth Dimension”), and a short story by An Owomoyela (“Outsider”).
Uncanny Magazine Issue 22
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe May/June 2018 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Naomi Novik, Katharine Duckett, Marina J. Lostetter, Kelly Robson, A. Merc Rustad, and C.L. Clark, reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Greg Pak, Briana Lawrence, Kelly McCullough, and Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, and poetry by Theodora Goss, Ali Trotta, Sarah Gailey, and Betsy Aoki, interviews with Katharine Duckett and A. Merc Rustad by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.