With A Foundations of Lies by cover artist Kris Sayer, we emerge from the dark woods with Tatterhood’s loyal goat Bokki. Sword in hand (or mouth!), and fierce battle won, we are ready to take on the varied landscapes of this issue, no passport required.
In ‘The Library Giant’ by feature author Shashi Bhat, the struggle with nature – human nature – rages deep within. Meanwhile, in British Columbia and Iceland, ghosts of grief wander with the living as KT Wagner, SL Leong, and Erin Wagner explore the rocky terrain of memory.
And whether in a culvert or factory, but most certainly within one’s own mind, Mike Gillis and Brandon Crilly remind us how difficult it can be to navigate wreckage of the heart.
Forest, river, mountain, ocean – Mother Nature has a starring role in the winning stories for the 2020 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize: ‘The Weeping Pools’ and ‘River’s Thousand-One Voice’ by Cadence Mandybura, and ‘Glimpse of a Goddess’ by Laura Kuhlmann.
Poets Abner Porzio, with ‘Californian Illusion’, and Michael Penny, with ‘Kalaloch Beach, WA’, introduce us to two very different wild west coasts.
Next, take flight and soar above it all with part three of Joseph Stilwell and Hugh Henderson’s comic saga Blue Skies over Nine Isles.
And finally, heroines Frankie Ray and Allaigna enter dangerous territory of their own as they search for clues to murder. In ‘Sleuth With Star Quality’ by Mel Anastasiou, Frankie Ray dons a disguise and braves a brothel. And in ‘The Killing Ground’, the second part of Allaigna’s Song: Oburakor by JM Landels, Allaigna buries the dead in a blood-soaked wasteland.
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- From the Pulp Lit Pulpit Winter Wonder
- The Library Giant Shashi Bhat
- Feature Interview Shashi Bhat
- The Extra: Frankie Ray, Sleuth with Star Quality Mel Anastasiou
- Winter’s Flower KT Wagner
- Kalaloch Beach, WA Michael Penny
- Synchronicity and Sonata Brandon Crilly
- The Hunter Undead Erin Wagner
- Californian Illusion Abner Porzio
- Dark and Stormy Mike Gillis
- Ghost Story SL Leong
- The Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize Cadence Mandybura, Laura Kuhlmann
- Blue Skies over Nine Isles Joseph Stilwell & Hugh Henderson
- Allaigna’s Song: Oburakor, The Killing Ground JM Landels
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Shashi Bhat’s fiction has appeared in publications across North America. She was the winner of the 2018 Journey Prize. Her novel, The Most Precious Substance on Earth, is forthcoming from Mc Clelland & Stewart in 2021. Visit her at shashibhat.com.