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Whole city came back wrong, an old man says as he buys a lottery ticket at the liquor store window. If I win big, I’m getting out of here. The resurrection of New York had been the greatest feat of necromantic magic known in the modern age. As usual, no one had wanted the necromancers there at all.
“The City Unsleeping,” Anya Leigh Josephs
Within the intersections of grief, a slave boy meets a mysterious stranger, the city of New York flails in a pandemic, we are become plastic, ghosts come calling at all hours, cremains slip through our fingers, war, the ticking of a clock, eternal war, we court that which we should not, and follow it into the depths of hells we cannot understand.
“The Deadlands is a magazine that publishes short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere.
Here’s what you can look forward to in the Spring 2024 issue (#34) of The Deadlands:
- The Slave Boy, Denzel Xavier Scott
- When the Sounds of Fallen Patriots Break into the Wind, I Will Play Dead, Olalekan Daniel Kehinde
- doorbell dot mov, Jennifer R. Donohue
- the golden armor of science, Dylan Haston
- I Love Him Artichoke, Anna-Claire McGrath
- Etch A Sketch, Stephanie French
- Ask a Necromancer: Vision and Death, Amanda Downum
- The City Unsleeping, Anya Leigh Josephs
- Carbon Cycle, Lindsay King-Miller
- The Weather Man, Stephen M.A.
- Intersections of grief, Diana Dima
- The Clockmaker, Marc Joan