HUB: UPDATE

Issue 122

Fiction

The Slaughterman

by Alasdair Stuart

Feature
Poetic Faith: Disbelief and the Geek

Reviews
Magic and Desire
Bloodborn
Doctor Who: Hungry Earth and Cold Blood (s5, eps 8 & 9)

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FANTASTIC HORROR: UPDATE

Issue 15

Scuttle

by Elias Siqueiros
The Changelings

by L. Kristine Ebinger
The Deathless Ones

by James Lecky
The bell

by Anthony Liccione
The Horror at Sixteen-Five

by Ronald E. Wright

The Horseman

by Richard Eline

Lila Whispering

by D. Alexander Ward

To All That Is Lost

by Kathy Rippa

Laramie’s Travels

by Jack Faber

Her Eyes The Stars

by Matthew V. Lippart

Cloud People

by Wayne Summers

The Dinner Table

by Miguel Lopez De Leon

Promise of the Necropolis

by Edmund Siderius

It’s Rotten

by Chris Stevens

http://www.fantastichorror.com/15/

A FLY IN AMBER: UPDATE

The Bread of Ruth’s Unhappiness

by Francesca Forrest

Elegance

By Dave Pickering

The Fall

By Dena Daw

Free

by Kate Larkindale

Hope You Get Him

by Kate Vokovich

Mandala

by Scott Davis

In Search of the Bearded Lady

by Olivia V. Ambrogio

Talking Heads

by Jason Muller

When the Lights Go Out

by Joseph Williams

http://www.aflyinamber.net/

SILVER BLADE: UPDATE

Current issue includes:

The Red String by Noeleen Kavanagh

Diplomat's Stance by Gale Merrick

The Frozen Lakes of Saturn by Linda Manning

Under the Influence by Lisa Green

Veiled Brilliance by A.J Brown

http://www.silverblade.net/

TIME IN A BOTTLE ANTHOLOGY

A new anthology from Cyberwizard Productions

Goblin Lullaby by Jim C. Hines
The Neverstone by K.C. Shaw
The Worth of a Man by Lyn McConchie
The Seal of Mon' Ta' Set by Christopher Heath
An Honorable Race by Colin P. Davies
What Does Luck Taste Like? by Danny Birt
Dallas Through The Looking Glass by Ken Goldman
The Plot to Kill Claus by Clyde K. Elsie
Two Seconds Ahead by Rob Rosen
The Time Machine by Courtney Burback
Reparations by Merrie Haskell
On The Edge by Bonnie Rockwell
The Second Gift by Seth Skorkowsky
Saving the World from Sleeping in by Rachel Swirsky
Zen and the Art of Time Travel by Robert Neilson
On Camlann Field by Charles Kyffhausen
The Master of Time by James S. Dorr
After Nightfall by Jonathan Shipley
Of Fire and Time by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Time Traveler's Happily Ever After by Jordan Lapp

http://cyberwizardproductionsbooks.blogspot.com/2010/05/time-in-bottle-volume-1-now-in-print.html

MINDFLIGHTS: UPDATE

Song of the Bard

by Aubrie Dionne

Wish Seeker

by Alaena HaiLing

Regarding Sir Chahan

by Matthew Wuertz

Tumbling Parasol

by Stelios Touchtidis

Bond of Brotherhood

by Elyn W. Marsh

Dragon's Dreaming

by Michael R. Fosburg

Balance of Power

by Lindsey Duncan

Patience

by Rosalind Casey

http://www.mindflights.com/

THREE LOBED BURNING EYE: UPDATE

Issue 19

Witchwood

by Georgina Bruce

A Feather's Weight

by Jessica Reisman

The Biologie of Paradise

by Adam Browne

The End of Her World

by J M McDermott

Botch's Astronomy

by Cheryl W. Ruggiero

Dead Prophecies

by Ferrett Steinmetz

http://www.3lobedmag.com/

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES: UPDATE

Issue #43 -- May 20, 2010

Issues now available in the Amazon Kindle Store

"Mister Hadj’s Sunset Ride"

by Saladin Ahmed
But when Mister Hadj started in on them cowboy songs--well, as sure as I’m standing here, when that man got to crooning a tune he made the earth itself cry. This ain’t just me tale-telling, you hear? I seen tears fall from big red rocks when the old man hummed. Heard stones weep as they parted before him. So when Mister Hadj said that a stone in the road told him where to find Parson Lucifer, I didn’t doubt it.

"The Secret of Pogopolis"

by Matthew Bey
Carneby and the young woman attend the Apogee Swim, that moment at the height of The City's bound when the air is becalmed. Lifeguards watch over the citizens who swim into the great void with flippers and paddles made of cardboard and tape. The young woman is ecstatic as she ventures out above the green and blue smear of The Earth. They thrash their cardboard fins, flirting with the airy abyss which is the only respite from the numbing continuity of The City.

Audio Fiction Podcast 036

"As the Prairie Grasses Sing" by Sarah L. Edwards, from BCS #42
I knew I was not alone. Unseen things crept at the edges of my hearing, but none made any sign that they could talk to me, or that they recognized me as a friend. I began making the motions with my hands, which trembled a little. Will any of you talk to me? I asked, knowing it was futile to expect an animal to know the hand-signs that my family used to speak with me.

From the Archives:
"Hangman," by Erin Cashier, from BCS #10
The full moon let me see the train coming. It raged up the path of the old tracks but it wasn’t on them. It wove across them, ignoring their boundaries, sweeping like a snake on sand. It was a long one. It’d be full of a lot of good things--nails, cotton, wood, corn. That pleased me. Made everything a little more worthwhile, as worthwhile as dying ever got.

http://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/

HUB: UPDATE

Issue 121

Fiction

The Sea, The Sea, The Sea by Jennifer Williams

Reviews
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
13 Things That Don't Make Sense
House of Suns
Doctor Who: The Vampires of Venice and Amy's Choice (s5, eps 6&7)

Feature
Save Point

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JUPITER: UPDATE

Issue 28

Features fiction from

Timothy Miller

Simon Kewin

Ian Sales

Gary Budgen.

Cover art by Daniel Bristow-Bailey.

http://www.jupitersf.co.uk/

APHELION: UPDATE

May 2010

The Cassandra Connection
By E. S. Strout
When they removed the cancerous mass from Claire Rowland's brain, the doctors feared that she might lose memory, speech, mobility... they never imagined what she might gain.

A Lifetime of Memories
By Lester Curtis
Paul Beaman took almost everything from Lisa Willet: her money, and the memories that had made her who she was. But with the help of a friend, Lisa would make things right.

Murder at the Space Olympics
By Mike Wilson
2052 - the first Space Olympics, with new events tailored to hard vacuum and freefall conditions. Unfortunately, some things that should have stayed earthbound had tagged along into orbit.

A Lack of Power
By K. W. Ramsey
John was, to be honest, a mouse of a man, scurrying fearfully to avoid the roving gangs, tolerating his boss's abuse without complaint. But even mice have teeth and tempers...

Bleeding Metal
By John Carrick
Dr. Andrew Fox had a secret -- an unauthorized invention that gave him an edge over his competitors. The penalty, if he was discovered, would be death.

Coffee With The Last Man On Earth
By George Potter
Eric's visits were the highlight of Mary Ellen's day. He was young, and charming, and handsome, and that more than made up for his claims of being from a million years in the future.

The Ultimate Experiment
By Walt Trizna
Dr. Donald Ball had an unusual theory about the nature of one of the eleven theoretical dimensions associated with string theory. To test it, he needed a volunteer -- a dying volunteer.

The Magic of the Quooda
By J. Davidson Hero
Frizzle was a shaman and healer... but not a wizard. He would have to believe in magic to be a wizard. But he had to rely on the supposedly magical properties of quooda seeds to save his village from the monstrous gant.

Time of the Season
By Christopher Pender
The little group of college students thought they had escaped the plague that seemed to be killing whole cities. But one by one, they were dying...

The Greenhouse
By Thomas Goulding
Joseph Brooke valued the well-being of Beatrice above all else -- certainly more than he valued the lives of the women he introduced to her.



http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/

IRON BOUND

Iron Bound Magazine is an online magazine focusing strictly on everything and anything fantasy. Tales of sword and sorcery, tales of wizards, tales of elves and orcs, tales of thieves and kings, and such are all welcomed. We are open for submissions and we take poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and columns.

http://ironboundmag.wordpress.com/

ABSENT WILLOW REVIEW: UPDATE

May 2010

Higher Learning by Alva J. Roberts
Dust by Allison M. Dickson
At Long Last a Path to Follow by Kevin Gordon
The Chamber by Brett Joseph Talley
Emmerman and Associates by Jordan Bray
The Farrow Pit by James A. Ford
Heart Case by Jeffrey Miller
The Sea and the Sky by Kate Kelly
The Mumbler by Eric Bakutis
Safe and Secure by Rosalie Rasmussen
Cinderella Redux by Pamela J. Jessen

http://absentwillowreview.com/

DARKER

Darker is an ezine dedicated to dark speculative fiction.

Issue 1

The Portrait in the Pines

by Kurt Newton

Silent Scream

by Harris Whitman & Theresa Newbill

Three Dog Night

by John F.D Taff

Patient 37

by Tommy B. Smith

The Apartment's Best Feature

by Philip Roberts

http://www.wix.com/RobertMacAnthony/darker

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES: UPDATE

Issue 42

Sarah L. Edwards As the Prarie Grasses Sing
I knew I was not alone. Unseen things crept at the edges of my hearing, but none made any sign that they could talk to me, or that they recognized me as a friend. I began making the motions with my hands, which trembled a little. Will any of you talk to me? I asked, knowing it was futile to expect an animal to know the hand-signs that my family used to speak with me.

James Lecky And Other Such Delights
And what music he created. His sculpted notes and cascading chords—ripped from the heart of ruined, grieving PameMorturas— were sweet and somber, furious and mournful, filled with the longing of unfulfilled lives and stolen years. They spoke of things that once were and now could never be again, of the selfishness and jealousy of those who had wreaked destruction not only upon that poor city but on the future of mankind itself.

http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/toc.php

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES ANTHOLOGY

A poet and a thief must carry a magic sword that makes them alarmingly cheerful....

A god made of corn stalks haunts a woman whose heart is cut out....

A samurai investigating a ruined mansion finds a ghost of his long-dead brother....

These and other awe-inspiring stories await in The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year One, an anthology of fourteen stories from the first twenty-six issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

The Best of BCS, Year One features such authors as Marie Brennan, Richard Parks, and 2009 Campbell Award finalists Tony Pi and Aliette de Bodard. It includes “Thieves of Silence” by Holly Phillips, named to Locus's 2009 Recommended Reading List, and “Father's Kill” by Christopher Green, winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story of 2009.

The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year One is available for only $2.99 in five different formats, including for Kindle, Sony Reader, Palm, Barnes & Noble Nook, iPhone/iPod Touch, and for any ordinary computer. Read it on your e-reader, your iPhone or Blackberry or Android, or on your laptop.

Buy The Best of BCS, Year One or download a free preview at:

Smashwords.com, in five ebook & computer formats
Amazon Kindle Store, in Kindle/Stanza format
KoboBooks.com, in EPUB format
Apple's iBookstore, for iPad users
BarnesandNoble.com (coming soon)
Sony Ebook Store (coming soon)

All proceeds from the sale of The Best of BCS, Year One go to pay BCS authors and artists for their work. Buy a copy to read great literary adventure fantasy and support Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Table of Contents

The Sword of Loving Kindness · Chris Willrich

Architectural Constants · Yoon Ha Lee

Silk and Shadow · Tony Pi

Driftwood · Marie Brennan

Unrest · Grace Seybold

Dragon’s-Eyes · Margaret Ronald

Kreisler’s Automata · Matthew David Surridge

The Alchemist’s Feather · Erin Cashier

The Mansion of Bones · Richard Parks

The Mathematics of Faith · Jonathan Wood

Blighted Heart · Aliette de Bodard

The Tinyman and Caroline · Sarah L. Edwards

Father’s Kill · Christopher Green

Thieves of Silence · Holly Phillips

http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/page.php?p=anthology.php

BIG PULP: UPDATE

BIG PULP is an internet magazine featuring a wide range of pulp fiction and genre artwork. Our definition of genre fiction is very broad, running the gamut from literary fiction and experimental poetry to locked room mysteries, sword and sorcery, and space opera.

Our ideal is the newstand of the Golden Age of pulp and popular fiction, where lucky readers could find literally dozens of magazines catering to all manner of interests and tastes. Instead of publishing only one kind of story, we hope to recreate the feel of those fantastic newstands, where science fiction stood shoulder to shoulder with jungle adventure, and romance vied with true crime for the hearts of readers.

BIG PULP publishes new work every week on Mondays and Wednesdays.

http://www.bigpulp.com/index.html

SORCEROUS SIGNALS: UPDATE

Alone - Rhonda Parrish, et al

Poetry

Bane of the First Born - Nicholas Ozment

In which Wyatt, in the absence of his monster-hunting partner Zane, must end a centuries-old curse and slay a fiend, and prove to a bar-wench that he is who he is.

Fig - Rebecca Nazar

While on a fishing trip cousins Ben and Sam encounter a beautiful dragon that's vaguely familiar and extremely clever.

The Giant's Graveyard - Mark Finnemore

Mullen threw up his arms in disbelief. "Not the giant again, Lass! Didn't you learn your lesson last time? Don't you understand that the giant can't be killed?"

Honey the Barbarian and the Geis - Deborah Walker

Honey finds herself trapped into being a judge for a medieval talent contest.

Ordinary - Robert Shmigelsky

Poetry

Prisoners of the Glittering Plain - David A Hardy

“Little profit will you have from your slayings, Odd and Asmund. And you too Ulf will drink full of the cup of bitterness. Wind and wave will hound you. What you win will only cause you greater loss.” - thus spoke the witch Sylgja.

Return to Athelnay - Kate Kelly

Condemned to fight the same battle for eternity - but will a group of unlikely allies finally release them from their torment as they stand together on a battleground both in the past and the present.

What Gets Your Goat - James Beamon

Selling cigarettes door-to-door throughout the seven realms can be thankless sometimes. Or all the time. But a goblin's got to eat, or at least drink heavily. And while Scrote would love a thanks for offering deals humans can't afford to say no to, he'd settle for getting out of this one alive.

MYSTIC SIGNALS - exclusive story

Nor Any Drop - James C. Bassett

A sorceress finds she must relearn what true magic is when she loses the power she has been stealing for many years.

http://www.sorceroussignals.com/SorcerousSignals.html

FEAR AND TREMBLING UPDATE

New Fiction and Poetry

The Black Spot

by Jonathan Garner
Is it a mere stain, or a doorway into a void where only darkness exists?

The Premises

by WC Roberts
They foreclosed on the old place and I bought it to flip when the market improved but my transparent squatter won't be evicted.

To Market, To Market

by Joshua Gage
Her hands cannot return empty.

Mirrored Table Top

by Joseph M. Gant
Candy?

The Audit

by Will Endres, Jr.
There's no telling how far the IRS is willing to go to audit someone.

Into the After

by Joshua E. Smith
What makes you so special to come my way - and receive such a welcome?

http://www.fearandtremblingmag.com/

MURKY DEPTHS

May 2010

Glory Of The Empire...

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Dead Girls- Episode 4...

Richard Calder

Inner Space...

Clark Nida

Shoes For The Journey...

Aaron Poulson

Kite...

James Johnson

Life's A Grind...

Mathew Wimmer

Spare Change ...

Jay Eales

Swampjack...

Jeremiah Levin

Atlantean God - Part 1...

Luke Cooper

Strict Machine...

Matthew Spaul

Warm August Tequila...

Jeff Crook

Techno Thriller Romance...

Eddie Jeffrey

Revelation...

Bill Moore

Depth Charge...

Matt Wallace

Interview with Steve Upham

Interview with Nicholas Dishington

http://www.murkydepths.com/

HUB: UPDATE

Issue 120

Fiction

Imperforate by Trudi Topham

Features
Interview - Paul Cornell
Interview - Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Aaron Johnson

Reviews
The City and the City
The Leaping
Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone (s5, ep5)
Pulse

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