E-zines

Reviews of e-zines.

The Town Drunk, January 2008

By Carole Ann Moleti ⋅ January 14, 2008

In The Town Drunk for January, 2008, “Panko” by Zdravka Evtimova weaves an interesting tale of a dead donkey whose meat has the magical ability to make even the most downtrodden woman appear “magnificent” to the (human) male asses that happen to be around.
The imagery of a man more devoted to his donkey than to […]

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shortshortshort.com, Nov/Dec 2007

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ January 2, 2008

Pushcart and Nebula Award-winning author Bruce Holland Rogers gives subscribers a good deal: for ten dollars a year, they receive (by email) three stories a month. As Rogers says, “Thirty-six stories for ten dollars. That’s about twenty-eight cents a story.” They’re short stories, rarely longer than 2000 words, but in today’s nanosecond attention span […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, December 2007

By Val Grimm ⋅ December 31, 2007

This month’s Fantasy Magazine yields up horror, romance, a re-imagined fairy tale, a prose poem, and a bedtime story. It’s an uneven crop but an interesting one nonetheless. Overall, where December’s offerings are weakest is coherency. Two stories feel like sections of novels (a phenomenon I’ve encountered from this publication’s offerings before), and the plotline […]

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Strange Horizons, October 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ December 31, 2007

Strange Horizons brought five stories in October, 2007. The opening one, “Catherine and the Satyr” by Theodora Goss, is a tragedy about being trapped. The titular woman—the wife of Byron—is trapped in a marriage with a man who has become distracted by other women. There are ways for her to find a kind of freedom; […]

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Shortshortshort.com, Sept/Oct 2007

By Douglas Hoffman ⋅ December 31, 2007

Bruce Holland Rogers, the creative force behind shortshortshort.com, served up a mixed sextet of ultrashort stories for September and October, 2007. Here you’ll find some of Rogers’s best work, as well as some less-than-stellar tales.
“Stoppage” is not one of Rogers’s clearer stories. A cat sitting on sheet music provides the inspiration for a metaphysical digression […]

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Ideomancer, December 2007

By Alex Dally MacFarlane ⋅ December 23, 2007

The December issue of Ideomancer opens with “How to Draw the Dark Lord” by Jon Hansen, which takes the style of a children’s colouring book and offers a ten-step set of instructions on how to draw the archetypal Dark Lord of fantasy worlds. Hansen’s observations are spot-on for the archetype, and a sprinkling of humour […]

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Aeon #12

By Marshall Payne ⋅ December 20, 2007

I was quite impressed with Aeon #11 and found Aeon #12 to be equally impressive. Editors Bridget and Marti McKenna are doing a fine job of bringing a diverse selection of speculative fiction to their readers. This is adult, literary fiction with a true sense of passion, combined with thoughtful fun.
Sarah L. Edwards […]

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Distillations: Alliteration

By Jennifer Mercer ⋅ December 16, 2007

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 […]

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ChiZine #34, October-December 2007

By Ziv Wities ⋅ December 11, 2007

I’ve found I especially enjoy writing reviews for e-zines, for the simple reason that if a review catches a reader’s attention, she can click right over and read the story for herself. Happily, issue #34 of ChiZine provides a couple of stories I’m more than happy to link folks to.
First up, “Longtime Gone” by Kurt […]

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Clarkesworld #15, December 2007

By Ben Payne ⋅ December 11, 2007

Samantha Henderson opens December’s issue of Clarkesworld Magazine with her story, “Curse,” which takes as its opening premise the tale of Rumplestiltzkin—tracing the female protagonist’s future life with the king and her subsequent decisions. I found “Curse” perhaps a little too disjointed to truly care what was happening. The three sections seemed barely connected, and […]

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