Electric Velocipede #14

Electric Velocipede #14, in acknowledgement of WisCon, the leading feminist-oriented SF/F convention, is a special issue featuring all women writers.
The first offering is “Hermit Crabs” by Elissa Malcohn. Fifteen-year-old Mandy is a bright student yet unpopular. Mandy is a cutter, finding relief from her pain with a razor blade. She meets up with Noah, […]

An Interview with Bridget and Marti McKenna

In this brief interview, editors Bridget and Marti McKenna answer a few questions about their e-zine, Æon.
Tell us a bit about yourself. Background, education, etc.

Marti: Having come through the U.S. public education system, I can safely say I have very little formal education. I was lucky to get a writing job at smallish computer game […]

Dog Versus Sandwich, June 2008

Dog Versus Sandwich begins the month of June with Mari Ness’s “Glass Dancing.” A flash fiction take on “Cinderella,” this offering is complete with a daughter, a mother, and more than one glass slipper. This story is so short I don’t want to give anything away, except to say there is a shattering of glass […]

An Interview with Cat Rambo

Cat Rambo is no stranger to serious readers of modern short speculative fiction. Her work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, and Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, to name just a few. She was a student in the MA writing program at John Hopkins, studying under John Barth and Stephen […]

Flytrap, Issue #9, June 2008

Flytrap #9 begins with M. Rickert’s “War is Beautiful.” Told in a highly subjective first person, an American soldier befriends a Vietnamese girl named Binh. He thinks of her as his angel, but soon she takes on the qualities of a ghost. Rickert begins by using an ironic tone with lines such as: “…humans […]

Strange Horizons, May 2008

Strange Horizons begins the month of May, 2008, with “The Gadgey” by Alan Campbell. In Scotland, two teenage boys on BMXs find a crashed spaceship. After much banter of Star Trek and E.T., the boys meet the alien they call a gadgey, who looks like the alien from the movie Predator, except in a silver […]

Dog Versus Sandwich, May 2008

The May, 2008, stories of Dog Versus Sandwich begin with “The Five Stages of Beef” by Peter Parrish. Jimmy must get home to his girlfriend, but he has a large problem: a cow has wandered onto the road, and he can’t pass. Getting out of his car, he engages in a maddening battle of rhetoric […]

An Interview with Lisa Mantchev

Since making her first sale in 2002, Lisa Mantchev’s fiction has appeared in a variety of markets, including Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Aeon, Fantasy Magazine, Abyss & Apex, and the SWFA anthology, New Voices in Science Fiction.
Lisa grew up in the small Northern California town of Ukiah. Her first forays into fiction were the […]

Dog Versus Sandwich, April 2008

The first offering in April’s Dog Versus Sandwich is “Eat My Stardust” by Sarah Totton. For those unfamiliar with Totton’s fiction, you’re in for a real treat. Her work has an odd quirkiness unlike any I’ve seen. While her style often possesses a childlike innocence, a certain disturbing decadence offsets the naiveté. […]

An Interview with Samantha Henderson

For the past few years, Samantha Henderson’s short fiction and poetry has appeared in such publications as Clarkesworld, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Lone Star Stories, to name just a few. She has lived in England, South Africa, Illinois, Oregon, and California, and she loves corgis. Sam now lives in […]