When Lilacs Last in the Boneyard Bloomed . . .

It’s April, nerds, and you know what that means! Slippery amphibians! Fractured fairy tales! Poetic pond(ering)s! Sweet, melancholy 90s nostalgia! Terrifying land mermaids! Harlem Renaissance greats photographing the undead! Centaurs with sunflowers!

Oh.

Well, that’s what it means to us.

It might be the cruelest month in the Waste Land, but April’s the coolest month here in the Pine Barrens. Pull up a rotting log and join our circle for a spell. Or a charm. Or a full-body transfiguration; we dabble in all the Magicks . . .

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Guess what just dropped into your pumpkin hole?

Mr. Punkincheeks, Devourer of Souls (and Snickers)

Welcome to issue One Hundred Two. The pieces in these pages share a contemplative tone, reflecting on the past, evaluating the present, and speculating on what is yet to come. Gavin Broom returns with a lovely and subtle seaside story, and C. M. Donahue imagines a lunar adventurer’s final moments in free verse. Heather Santo‘s flash fiction explains how science and art collaborate in the realm of the beyond. Askold Skalsky‘s sonnet explores the distance between desire and reality, and Emily Williamson‘s blank verse poem turns a landfill into a time machine. And if it’s straight-up horror you’re looking for, Predra6 has you covered with this month’s cover art.

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One Hundred and One Creations

 . . . each strange and magnificent in its own way. Welcome to issue One Hundred and One; we’re thrilled to have assembled this mixed six-pack of peculiarities for you.

Calvin Celebuski’s “A Legend Is Born” packs lots of birth, death, and surreal humor into a short space, and Devin Taylor befriends a summer squash in his poem “These Things—They Just Happen.” T. S. McAdams explores “Creaturehood in Contra Costa County” in his hard-boiled tale of canine cops. Gary Moshimer returns with bowling balls and flatulence in his flash story “Lar-a-bowl,” and Alex Pickens takes you beyond the infinite in his playful sonnet “Stardumb.” Finally, Terry Tierney explains “That Buzzing in Your Ear” in a flash piece with a scholarly seventeenth-century cleric and bugs. This month’s untitled cover art from Adika Bell speaks for itself.

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