E-zines
Reviews of e-zines.
Fantasy Magazine, March 2008
Hans Christian Andersen, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, and Tim Burton seem to have been whispering in the ears of Fantasy Magazine’s March contributors. An assortment of folk and fantasy elements bubble through the mix; there’s humor, insight, and even romance here, with an undercurrent of darkness. The wobblier stories can be hard to follow, their […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, March 2008
“All Talk” by Will Ludwigsen, the first story for March in Strange Horizons, is a brief scene between two people who possess mind-control powers. Sitting in a café, Valerie and Colin amuse themselves by making strangers around them say inappropriate things, such as the girl who tells her mother, “Elmo strangles hookers!” After a little […]
Continue ReadingDog Versus Sandwich, March 2008
The March issue of Dog Versus Sandwich kicks off with an off-beat modern tale by Jason Jordan entitled “Cloud.” A man discovers a small cloud in his bathroom raining in his toilet and strikes up a casual friendship with it. They take a walk, and at the 2nd Street Bridge, discuss suicide jumpers […]
Continue ReadingFlashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008
Flashing Swords, #9, Winter 2008, serves up a generous helping of sword and sorcery fiction and verse. This issue, 133 pages long, contains illustrations by a variety of artists and 19 written pieces. Alas, the table of contents does not distinguish between stories, essays, and poems, although interviews are always titled as “interview […]
Continue ReadingWritten Word, #9, March 2008
I had the pleasure of reading Written Word again this month and wasn’t disappointed by issue #9. In the cover story, “The Last of A Million Wishes” by Joanne Hall, Zinnia and Lettanie are fairy friends warned by their elders not to explore “the boy’s bedroom.” And, as predicted, when disaster strikes, Lettanie tries […]
Continue ReadingAtomjack, #9, February 2008
Atomjack Magazine is a small press e-zine published by Editor Adicus Ryan Garton, specializing in science fiction of all stripes. Assuming Issue #9 (February, 2008) is representative of the fiction published by Atomjack generally, I would have to say more work needs to be done. The tales in this issue range from good […]
Continue ReadingAeon #13
Issue #13 of Aeon is the third issue of this now pro-zine that I’ve reviewed. Call it this reviewer’s perception, editorial preference, luck of the submissions for this quarter, or triskaidekaphobia, but I didn’t find this issue nearly as strong as the last two. Still, three of the stories in here are noteworthy […]
Continue ReadingThe Town Drunk, March 2008
In “The Importance of Portents” in the March, 2008, issue of The Town Drunk, Zoltan doesn’t have much magical ability but hasn’t had much competition. Until now. One by one, his demon and assistant abandon him and go to work for the machine.
“You focus on your question, gaze through the window, and up from […]
Written Word, #8, February 2008
I don’t know anything about football and never understood the whole Super Bowl frenzy. But I still loved Christopher Hivner’s “One For the Thumb” in the February, 2008, issue of Written Word. The voice, grammar, and diction of a high school senior on the 0-30 Wilcox Dairymen are spot on. No angels descend from on […]
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 […]
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