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:

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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

http://www.hubfiction.com/