- “On Grief and the Language of Flowers: Selected Arrangements” by Damien Angelica Walters
- “The Confessions of Persephone” by Jane Yolen
- “Haunt Me” by Adele Gardner
- “Ghost Notes” by Shveta Thakrar
- “How to Grieve: A Primer for Witches” by Sara Cleto
- “The Fetch” by Jessica P. Wick
- “The Ladder-Back Chair” by Barbara Krasnoff
- “Grave Robber” by Jane Yolen
- “bn ?dnb?l bn ?drb?l” by Sonya Taaffe
Apex Magazine Issue 95
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThis month we welcome special guest editor Maurice Broaddus!
Apex 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
Not Here to Check Boxes — Maurice Broaddus
FICTION
Cut, Cut, Cut — Walter Mosley
Aunt Dissy’s Policy Dream Book — Sheree Renee Thomas
Say, She Toy — Chesya Burke
The Selkie Wives — Kendra Fortmeyer
POETRYVOX — LH Moore
Things That Earth No Longer Bears — Linda D. Addison
NONFICTION
Interview with Author Sheree Renee Thomas — Andrea Johnson
Time to Get Serious About Diversity and Inclusion — Tanya C. DePass
Interview with Cover Artist Angelique Shelley — Russell Dickerson
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 83 (April 2017)
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, we have original science fiction by Joseph Allen Hill (“Infinite Love Engine”) and Lina Rather (“Seven Permutations of My Daughter”), along with SF reprints by Paul Park (“If Lions Could Speak: Imagining the Alien”) and Nancy Kress (“Someone to Watch Over Me”). Plus, we have original fantasy by Susan Palwick (“Remote Presence”) and Jess Barber (“Maybe Look Up”), and fantasy reprints by Genevieve Valentine (“Familiaris”) and Charles Yu (“Bookkeeper, Narrator, Gunslinger”). All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author spotlights, along with our book and media review columns, and a feature interview with Aliette de Bodard. For our ebook readers, we also have a reprint of Michelle West’s “The Memory of Stone” and an excerpt of SKULLSWORN by Brian Staveley (forthcoming from Tor Books). Our cover this month is by Odera Igbokwe, illustrating “Infinite Love Engine” by Joseph Allen Hill.
Nightmare Magazine, Issue 55 (April 2017)
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 Eric Schaller (“Red Hood”) and Jenn Grunigen (“Figs, Detached”), along with reprints by Premee Mohamed (“The Adventurer’s Wife”) and Molly Tanzer (“But Only Because I Love You”). In the latest installment of our column on horror, “The H Word,” John Langan discusses the influence of Shirley Jackson on the genre. We also have author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with Stephen Graham Jones.
The Dark – Issue 23
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:
“The Name, Blurry and Incomplete in His Mind” by Erica Mosley
“The Witch Moth” by Bruce McAllister (reprint)
“The Language of Endings” by Kristi DeMeester
“In Syllables of Elder Seas” by Lisa L. Hannett (reprint)
Mythic Delirium 3.4
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedMythic Delirium greets Spring 2017 with a heady mix that blends shades of grief and loss, yet has many rays of light to offer.
Damien Angelica Walters digs to expose undercurrents of magic that guide a family through a funeral in “On Grief and the Language of Flowers: Selected Arrangements.” In Shveta Thakrar’s “Ghost Notes,” a hunger to steal the stories of others drives a sinister seduction. Barbara Krasnoff details a moving encounter between the living and the dead in “The Ladder-Back Chair.”
Poems from Jane Yolen, Adele Gardner, Sara Cleto, Jessica P. Wick, and Sonya Taaffe continue the interactions of mourning and magic, by way of goddesses and gardens, ghosts and prophecy, homunculi and witches, ancient languages and graves.
Our cover art, “Prick,” comes from Susan Jamison, who paints in egg tempera. Her works often convey mysterious women communing with animals who could be spirit guides or familiars. This painting, which, shall we say, leaves a mark, complements this issue perfectly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Flash Fiction Online Issue #43 April 2017
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2017 issue of Flash Fiction Online.Fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary short fiction for the modern reader.
Let’s face it; sometimes you need a laugh. Alternatively, a reason to look a little sideways at life.
There are few genres more challenging to write than humor, but in this issue, our authors elevated short fiction funny to a whole new level. Their styles vary as much as their main characters, but one thing is certain. Squeeze this pocket-sized read into your busy day, and we promise it’ll get brighter.
From S. L. Saboviec, experience the strangest, most histrionic flower show this side of reality television in “How the 576th Annual Pollen Festival Blossomed My Budding Career.”
In “Strays” by Marion Deeds, a pair of shoes adopts a new owner. You don’t have to be a diehard fashionista to understand the pull of a fabulous set of heels. Sometimes empowerment comes from the strangest places.
Returning FFO author, Zach Shephard brings “The Black Clover Equation.” The perfect formulation for good luck has never gone so unluckily.
Moreover, in his FOURTH April FFO appearance, John Wiswell returns yet again, this time with a superhero reprint, “The Terrible.” Originally published in Daily Science Fiction, The Terrible is not Mercer. (Really. Stop calling him that.) Locked in his epic Bad-Guy struggle against Invulnerabella, The Terrible just wants to use his power-armor. Is that too much to ask?
Finally, a new installment of FXXK WRITING by Jason S. Ridler. Silence and Stupidity Part I explores how punk rock saved his life…and taught him to succeed both at writing and life.
Enjoy!
Locus April 2017 (#675)
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe April 2017 issue of Locus magazine has an interview with Kinuko Y. Craft and spotlights on artists Paul Lewin, Jeffrey Alan Love, and Rovina Cai. The issue includes the 2016 British Book Summary, coverage of FOGcon, and a report on SF in Portugal by Luís Filipe Silva. News covers the Tiptree Award, Stoker final ballot, SF Hall of Fame nominations, Asimov’s Readers’ Awards Finalists, Analog AnLab Awards finalists, Carnegie and Greenaway Medal shortlists, Spectrum 24 Awards finalists, and more. Susan Casper (1947-2017) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. Additional obituaries remember Bernie Wrightson, Nancy Willard, and Alan Aldridge. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled “How to Write a Book in a Month”. Reviews cover new titles by John Kessel, Ian McDonald, Aliette de Bodard, Claire North, Neil Gaiman, Brian Staveley, Ruthanna Emrys, Vic James, Robert Charles Wilson, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Scott Westerfeld, John Scalzi, Reggie Oliver, Clive Barker, Alex Wells, Ellen Klages, and many others.
Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 127
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 April 2017 issue (#127) contains:
* Original stories by Robert Brice (“Conglomerate”), Bogi Takacs (“Some Remarks on the Reproductive Strategy of the Common Octopus”), Vajra Chandrasekera (“Left of Bang: Preemptive Self-Actualization for Autonomous Systems”), Juliette Wade (“Sunwake, in the Lands of Teeth”), and Fei Dao (“The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales”).
* Reprints by Adam Roberts (“Thing and Sick”) and Michael Swanwick (“Ancient Engines”).
* Non-fiction by Calden Wloka, an interview with Ada Palmer, an Another Word column by Kelly Robson, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.
Forever Magazine Issue 27
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 April 2017 issue features a novella by James Patrick Kelly (“Burn”), a novelette by Nina Allan (“Flying in the Face of God”), and a short story by Carolyn Ives Gilman (“Frost Painting”).
Interzone #269
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March–April issue of Britain’s longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine contains new stories by Steve Rasnic Tem, Sean McMullen, Tim Akers, Christien Gholson, and Richard E. Gropp. The cover artist for 2017 is Dave Senecal, and interior colour illustrations are by Richard Wagner and Martin Hanford.
Features: Guest Editorial by Steve Rasnic Tem; Ansible Link by David Langford (news and obits); Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe (film reviews); Book Zone (book reviews, including an interview with Steve Rasnic Tem conducted by Peter Tennant); Jonathan McCalmont’s Future Interrupted (comment); Nina Allan’s Time Pieces (comment).
Black Static #57
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March–April issue contains new, long dark fiction by Ralph Robert Moore, Simon Avery, Mike O’Driscoll, and Aliya Whiteley. The cover art is by Ben Baldwin, with interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin, Richard Wagner, and Joachim Luetke.
Features: 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 Andrew Hook); Blood Spectrum by Gary Couzens (DVD/Blu-ray/Digital reviews).
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #222
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedIssue #222 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Jonathan Edelstein and J.W. Halicks.
On Spec Magazine #104 Vol 28 No 1
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedVolume 28 No 1 issue of On Spec Magazine.
This issue features short stories by Marcelle Dubﾎ (“Skywalkers”,Meghan Casey (“Banewort”), Ashley Mullins (“Second Born”), Christine S.R. Kackson (“Liminar”), Brent Nichols (“The Hero”), William Squirrell (“Heaven by Storm”), Suzanne Church (“In the Shadow of a Broken Man”), and Kevin Cockle (“A Clockwork Barista”). Poetry by Emeniano Somoza (“The Angler”) and Michelle Chen (“November”). Interviews with Ashley Mullins and Joel Hustak. Cover by Joel Hustak.
New York Review of Science Fiction #339
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedSpecial War at Literature’s Borders Issue: Mark Scroggins: Jerry Cornelius, Protean Messiah; Joe Milica: Literature’s Stealth Invasion of SF; Darrell Schweitzer Interviews Albert E. Cowdrey; Mike Barrett: E.R. Eddison’s Masterpiece; Brian Stableford: French Romantic Satanism; Kris Dikeman: Kathe Koja’s Years Best Weird Fiction; David Griffin: Looking back at Creepshow; Martin Morse Wooster: Rob Hansen’s Then; Plus: Langford at Random & The Shoulders of Giants
Uncanny Magazine Issue 15
Tags: No Author Royalties CollectedThe March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M. Bradley, interviews with Stephen Graham Jones and Sarah Pinsker by Julia Rios, a cover by Julie Dillon, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Apex Magazine Issue 94
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
Luminaria—John Hornor Jacobs
Waste—Mary Elizabeth Burroughs
Jesus Christ, Reanimator—Ken MacLeod
NONFICTION
Interview with Author John Hornor Jacobs—Andrea Johnson
Books Worth Your Time—Apex Staff
Interview with Cover Artist Caroline Jamhour—Russell Dickerson