E-zines
Reviews of e-zines.
Fantasy Magazine Online, January 2008
The January 2008 offerings from Fantasy Magazine are on the darker side: a mix of two parts magic and one part horror, with a dash of surrealism. This is one of the strongest (and the shortest) assortment they’ve served up since I started following the site.
Kelly Barnhill’s “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake” […]
Shiny #2
Shiny is a PDF e-zine based in Australia of YA speculative fiction. When I was a teacher for a few years, I read a lot of YA speculative books as a way of keeping in touch with what my students might be reading, but I hadn’t read much short fiction that labeled itself as […]
Continue ReadingFarrago’s Wainscot, Issue 5
Farrago’s Wainscot presents itself as a quarterly journal of experimentation, decay, and the problems with form and “as evidence of new ideas about artistic meaning.” Reviews of Farrago’s Wainscot have at least twice referenced the term “interstitial,” and the magazine left previous Fix reviewer, K. Tempest Bradford, feeling like an anime character with huge question […]
Continue ReadingDistillations: Assonance
This month we continue our exploration of poetry techniques with assonance, defined as the repetition of vowel sounds. Last month, I referred to assonance as “alliteration’s crafty cousin.” The reason for this is that assonance is much less visually obvious. Although the English language is quite free with the correspondence of spelling to sound, this […]
Continue ReadingStrange Horizons, November 2007
As seems to be the trend for me, November was another month in which I very much enjoyed most of Strange Horizon’s fiction and didn’t dislike any. The first story of the month is “Bears” by Leah Bobet, and it’s about, well, bears. “Ninety-eight percent of all fictional deaths are directly attributable to being eaten […]
Continue ReadingClarkesworld #16, January 2008
In issue 16 of Clarkesworld, Tim Pratt’s story, “The River Boy,” is a sweet little tale about an old woman anxious to carry on her line by having a child, the bargain she makes in order to do so, and its consequences. Her desire becomes linked to the needs of the people who live in […]
Continue ReadingHub #35 - 38
Over the last year, I’ve learned by experience exactly what people mean when they say their lives keep them too busy to read. Now, by this I mean, of course, that while I may have plenty of time in which I could read, sometimes I choose not to because working life forces one to be […]
Continue ReadingThe Town Drunk, January 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 […]
shortshortshort.com, Nov/Dec 2007
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 […]
Continue ReadingFantasy Magazine Online, December 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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