Lone Star Stories
A bimonthly e-zine of speculative fiction and poetry published by Eric Marin.
Lone Star Stories #26
Lone Star Stories is a bimonthly webzine which offers three pieces of fiction and three of poetry. That it has lasted for 26 issues (now 27) speaks well of its endurance and consistency. This issue opens with a short story—almost flash fiction—titled “The Stamp” by Terry Bisson. It’s deliberately simply written and tells the tale […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories, #27, June 2008
Issue #27 of Lone Star Stories presents a by-now-standard sextet: from the three stories, one is particularly strong, and all three poems are highly recommended. The magazine typically offers challenging stories in a speculative vein, in various narrative styles and tones which make it—fortunately—hard to categorize; this issue is no exception. I have come to […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Explorations of Hunger
In this month’s Distillations column, we explore three poems involving different twists on the mundane experience of eating and the experience of hunger. The narrators in each poem are human, and the food being discussed is not particularly exotic: risotto, soufflés, and mother’s milk. However, each poem shows hunger from an unexpected direction.
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #25, February 2008 (Poetry)
The February issue of Lone Star Stories contains three poems. The first of these, “Up North” by Elizabeth Hand, is a rather long piece of prose poetry. “Up North” uses rich language and surreal imagery to describe what is either a world only slightly different than our own, or our own world going […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #25, February 2008 (Fiction)
First up in issue #25 of Lone Star Stories is Ekaterina Sedia’s “The Disemboweler,” which begins by describing a series of cruel “murders” of cars in Glenn’s neighborhood. When Glenn’s Peugeot is disemboweled, he is determined to catch the culprit—and to understand the senseless crime.
If only the story were as simple as the recap. “The […]
Distillations: Alliteration
As I mentioned last month, this column will be exploring various poetry techniques each month and how they are used in current speculative poetry. This month’s featured technique is alliteration, which is defined as the repetition of initial consonants or consonant sounds. It is a simple technique which can be powerful if not overdone. It […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #24, December 2007
The first story in the December 2007 issue of Lone Star Stories, “Dragon Hunt” by Sarah Prineas, is a short tale with a lot to it. King Kenneret earned his position by killing the last dragon, or so the legend goes. But when a village head comes to a feast, begging the king to help […]
Continue ReadingLone Star Stories #23, October 2007
Issue 23 of Lone Star Stories contains three pieces of short fiction. The first, “Stickmen” by Forrest Aguirre, is a delicate tale about loss of innocence and growing up. A group of boys on a camping trip create stick figures out of the materials available to them on the forest floor and reveal something […]
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