It’s mainly for contributors, but readers will also be interested.
Julian Lawler’s characters develop apace in The Prophet of Dreams. A struggle with a monster will have consequences in chapter 9, “A Battle and a Preference.”
Our serials have run to space operas lately, and heroics are coming back into style. P. J. Lawton pits a lone captive against a fleet in “A Good Day to Die.”
Three new contributors in our short stories!
Your computer will never look at you the same way again after Caroline Misner’s “Diabolus ex machina.”
What would Walter Mitty have done if one of his daydreams had come true, and he found himself stuck in it? Lewayne L. White runs with the idea in a fantasy spoof: “Hail the Bob.”
Paul Williams shows that channeling in reverse, from the present to the past, can be extremely hazardous in “Saving Me.”
Do insects bug you when they buzz around the house? Ásgrímur Hartmannsson’s character is bugged figuratively as well as literally. But he has a message for the operator in “Fly Away.”
What do you do on an alien planet with no doctors or lawyers, just a parasitical creepy-crawly? Charles Richard Laing’s character has to use whatever comes to hand to perform “The Operation.”
Thomas R. writes two poems in commemoration of Lent: one for Shrove Tuesday, “Carnival,” and another for Ash Wednesday, “Ashes.” A third poem in the cycle will appear in issue 87.
Issue 87 will feature four new contributors: Ian Donnell Arbuckle, Fran Jacobs, Troy Morash and Dominic Winkelman. Thomas R. has a third poem in his Lenten cycle. We’ll also feature a complete novella by Tala Bar; like her Ya’el it is set in ancient times. And Julian Lawler’s novel The Prophet of Dreams nears its conclusion.
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