Tag: 2019
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What Every Thief Knows
by Joette M. Rozanski in Issue 92, September 2019 Quality Likes to See You Grovel Digger told her to just pop the eater’s head off his shoulders, but of course she wouldn’t listen. Hesper was a fair-minded woman with morals, which would someday, Digger was fairly certain, become her fatal flaw. The eater, his dark…
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Can’t Find My Way Home—A Review of ‘Weirdworld Volume 1: Where Lost Things Go’
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 92, September 2019 2019As far as bad days go, high school senior Becca Rodriguez is having a pretty crap one. While en route to Mexico to inter her mother’s ashes, her flight takes a permanent detour. The passengers are pulled through a planar vortex into the realm known as Weirdworld.…
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The Garnet Key
by Jason Gallagher in Issue 91, August 2018 It was on Semid’s eighteenth birthday that his grandmother gave him the key. They were on the back patio. A wooden fence, turned a dull grey and warped with age, separated their little sanctuary from the other families crowded in the cluster of housing units. The high…
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Still Ciela
by Lynn Rushlau in Issue 91, August 2019 Groaning, I dropped the last of the boxes atop the stack in the alley and glanced at the sun. Winced and looked away, blinded. Nearly dusk. I needed to leave. The sun would drop under the horizon soon, and I knew better than to go out past…
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Jack Eternal—A Review THE LAY OF OLD HEX: SPECTRAL BALLADS & WEIRD JACK TALES by Adam Bolivar
by Anthony Perconti in Issue 91. August 2019 2019I first heard of Adam Bolivar in the wonderful Clark Ashton Smith documentary, The Emperor of Dreams. Prior to watching this documentary, it was unbeknownst to me that in California, there is a long standing tradition of poets producing works in the Romantic style. George Sterling, active during…