Newsletter numero dos is out. With insight into the fell wonders of the new mag issue, some light self-indulgence, and a short story recommendation from @rlsummerling.bsky.social@ergot.bsky.social.
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Catching up on my short story reading and we've got ourselves another Thomas Ha banger, people. The story within the story hits hard on the problem a lot of mainstream short fiction has with unresolved narratives and non-cathartic endings. Great read.
The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video by Thomas Ha
I love this story for the same reason I love Roadside Picnic; it's about a normal working guy trying to make a living in a world that's been irrevocably changed beyond recognition, because in that world people still have to scrabble together money for rent.
Andrew Kozma is another returning author in the new issue, first gracing the pages of Issue #7 with his biblically horrific angelic cosmic horror noir "Claimed for a Higher Purpose in the True Glory of the Universe for Our Lord". Read it and despair.
Herschel was a decent man before the angels arrived. Now there were no decent men or women, just the claimed and the dead. The dead were not truly dead, it was just the name the angels gave them. The ...
Applications for the inaugural Watermelon Grant for Palestinian Creators are now open! $2000 grants will be awarded in speculative fiction AND speculative poetry. Details here: www.ldlewiswrites.com/watermelon-g...
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Joe Koch returns to STP in unsettling form for the new issue, but if you're not a subscriber go back to Issue #1 and read the surreal, nightmarish, apian fever dream that is "Eating Bees From The Ass Of God".
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Read this radge novella by Michael Tichy last week that gave me whiplash (complimentary) in its wild swing from bleak rural realism to fash-obliterating tree kaiju delirium. Still thinking about it.
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